2026
Fridays from 10:00 am – 11:30 am PT via Zoom starting on June 5, 2026 and continuing through July 17, 2026, NPI presents: Dreams on the Couch: A Consultation Group for Therapists, Presented by Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald, Psy.D., LMFT
This consultation group invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought, participants will bring clinical material and engage in a collaborative process of listening, reverie, and meaning-making.
Together, we will explore how dreams emerge within the intersubjective field, how they speak to unconscious communication, and how they may be used clinically to deepen the relationship between the patient, the therapist, and the analytic relationship itself. This is a space for clinicians who wish to think deeply, work imaginatively, and remain in contact with the mystery and vitality of the unconscious.
Course Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to describe the role of dreams in clinical practice
2. Identify ways patient’s dreams communicate unconscious emotional dynamics
3. Evaluate how therapist’s reverie may inform therapeutic process
4. Apply concepts of transference and countertransference in the dream field
5. Participates will be able to recognize when the capacity to dream becomes restricted due to defensiveness in treatment
6. Utilize dream material to deepen clinical work
9 CE Credits Available!
Please click on this link for more information and to register: https://www.npi.edu/events/dreams_on_the_couch/
TUESDAYS, JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 7, 14, 21, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time, MITPP 2026 SUMMER INSTITUTE
INFANT DEVELOPMENT AND ATTACHMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Instructor: Susana Martinez, Ph.D., LP
Over the past fifty years, there have been important findings in the areas of attachment and infant development, as well as on how such findings can better inform treatment with children and adults. In this six-week course, we will study some of these findings and examine how they contribute to psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy.
9 Contact Hours
FEE: $225
For more information and registration, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events
WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 24, JULY 1, 8, 15, 22, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents EMBODIMENT AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Instructor: Susan McNamara, MD, FAPA
We are experts on bodies; we all have one. This seminar takes up the topic of the body and the significance of our bodies to ourselves and others. Why is there a mind-body duality? How do bodies collect anxiety and fear? How are bodies gendered? Why does psychoanalysis struggle with the corporeal? This mini-course will consider embodiment from different perspectives and deepen our understanding of how perceptions of the body crisscross and resonate. We will explore the epistemology of the body from various psychoanalytic perspectives by examining the work of Kathryn Zerbe, Alexandra Harrison, Ed Tronick, Andrzej Werbart, Daria Columbo, and Griffin Hansbury. We will examine our assumptions about the body and its relationship to the mind, assess how psychoanalytic, biological, anthropological, and medical concepts intersect with cultural and political ideas about embodiment, and describe somatic countertransference.
7.5 Contact Hours
FEE: $185
For more information and registration, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events
SATURDAY, JULY 11, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents BUILDING AND MAINTAINING A PRIVATE PRACTICE IN CHALLENGING TIMES
Instructors: Barbara L. Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD, and Ruby R. Benjamin, Ed.D., LP
This workshop is designed to help clinicians who are thinking about building a private practice in this challenging time. Rules and issues clinicians face around whether or not to participate in managed care panels or maintain an out of network insurance profile, what to consider in setting a fee especially in this period of growing unemployment and financial uncertainty, active competition for the available pool of patients posing immediate and longer term decisions about the hidden costs of private practice, and the risk assessment involved in joining programs that feed your referral base. In this workshop, we will also focus on the mechanics of starting and maintaining a practice, such as assessment of office space needs, rental costs, locating an office, determining whether or not to participate on managed care panels, issues in fee settings, marketing, developing a referral network, HIPAA (Privacy Law) requirements, licensing restrictions, keeping notes and documentation, and developing collegial and supervisory supports. The clinical dimensions involved are also considered. Special attention will be paid to the “frame issues” that arise where aspects of clinical phenomena get ”lost” in insurance rules and regulations around the frequency of sessions, payments for missed appointments, use of telehealth, note-keeping, and other such matters. Names of insurance panels and information on how to contact them will also be discussed. Participants will be able to identify two reasons to set up private practice and how to do so; two obstacles in setting it up and how to navigate those challenges; two frame issues that are clinical dimensions that need to be considered in private practice.
Contact Hours: N/A
FEE: $75
For information and registration, please visit https://www.mitpp.org/events
SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2026 , 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT, MITPP presents: OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
LOOKING FOR A THERAPEUTIC WINDOW: NAVIGATING COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND SEARCHING FOR OPPORTUNITIES WHILE WORKING WITH A NARCISSISTICALLY DISTURBED PATIENT
Online through Zoom.
PRESENTER: MICHAEL AMBROSINO, LMSW
For information and registration, please visit https://www.mitpp.org/events
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents WORKING WITH ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
Instructor: Caroline Sloane, LMSW
This seminar will integrate relevant psychoanalytic theory and literature with clinical case material to explore the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Particular attention will be given not only to the enduring psychological impact of sexual trauma on patients, but also to the ways in which clinicians’ own resistance to confronting the unthinkable may shape the therapeutic process and countertransference experience. The seminar will examine unconscious dynamics related to identification with the aggressor as they emerge within treatment and consider their adaptive function within the patient’s psychic organization. Drawing upon betrayal trauma theory, a clinical vignette will be presented to illustrate these concepts and facilitate discussion of their application in clinical practice.
1.5 Contact Hours
FEE: $55
For information and registration, please visit https://www.mitpp.org/events
TUESDAYS, AUGUST 4, 11, 18, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents PROTECTING THERAPEUTIC DEPTH: REFLECTIVE CAPACITY IN THE FACE OF RACIAL AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
Instructor: Kim Arrington, Psy.D.
This workshop examines the therapist’s internal functioning in the presence of clinically and culturally charged material. While therapeutic depth is often assumed, it may narrow when difference evokes psychological activation that is not recognized or metabolized. Participants will explore subtle forms of internal retreat, defensive certainty, and the impact of these processes on treatment. Through didactic instruction, structured reflection, case-based discussion, and guided practice, participants will develop increased capacity to sustain psychological presence during difficult or activating clinical moments. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening reflective pause skills, differentiating defensive reactions from reflective processing, and protecting the conditions under which patients can feel seen, accompanied, and understood.
6 Contact Hours
FEE: $150
For information and registration, please visit https://www.mitpp.org/events
Saturday, September 19th, 10:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. PT, Newport Psychoanalytic Institute Saturday Salon presents: The Unconscious Effects of Postpartum Depression
Presented by Dawn Krikyan, RN, MSN, Psy.D., Ph.D.
In-Person: NPI Office
3 CE Units
This course defines postpartum depression (PPD) and explores it through the lens of psychoanalytic framework. The course will examine the role of ego regression in PPD, as well as specific triad of unconscious conflicts: dependency, anger, and maternal identification.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Describe PPD within the psychoanalytic framework
Explain and discuss the role of ego regression in PPD.
Identify and discuss three unconscious conflicts of PPD.
Read Dawn Krikyan’s bio, learn more, and register at NPI.EDU/CONTINUING-EDUCATION/
IFPE’s 36th Annual Conference, Subversion, October 1st - 3rd, 2026, Details @ https://www.ifpe.org/2026-conference
Saturday, October 3rd, 9:30-12 PM PST . Live via Zoom, The Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute presents: The Frightened Child - Danger, Safety, and the Risk of Closeness, Dr. Galit Atlas
In this exclusive Zoom webinar, international bestselling psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas dives deep into a chapter of her new book Come Closer (release date September 29), which explores the link between childhood wounds and adult love. This event is hosted in collaboration with CPI trainer and podcaster, Bryan Nixon, LPC.
General admission price: $185. Student pricing available with .edu email.
Price of admission includes a preorder copy of Dr. Atlas’s new book with signed bookplate, shipped to your preferred mailing address.
Register today: https://www.psychodynamicinstitute.com/buy/p/thefrightenedchild-galit-atlas-rpkrg