Online IOP for College Students and Emerging Adults in MA

The Erikson Institute offers a nine-month, fully online IOP psychodynamic psychotherapy training certificate program for Massachusetts-licensed, doctoral-level mental health professionals.

Beginning in March of 2025; Applications Due December 20

Participants in the certificate program will receive a stipend of $3,900 and can expect to:

Increase their professional and clinical expertise in helping patients negotiate developmental tasks of young adulthood
Develop the ability to make psychodynamic formulations and to use these formulations to frame the task of intensive short-term therapy
Experience and learn the benefits of working within a psychodynamic team approach

The program features five hours a week of psychotherapy training and didactics related to treating a young adult population using a developmental and psychodynamic team approach. Participants carry a caseload of one patient enrolled in the Online IOP whom they see twice weekly for a minimum of six weeks (and up to several months).

Participants receive weekly individual supervision from a doctoral-level licensed staff clinician on the Online IOP team, join one 50-minute team meeting per week, and attend a weekly course seminar taught by Austen Riggs Center staff. In addition, participants present their work with their patients at case conferences, utilizing supervision support to formulate the case and present the therapy work.

Training Seminars will cover the following:

Key concepts in psychodynamic theory
Beginning treatment: boundaries, role, and the frame
Psychoanalytic diagnosis: how development interacts with character structure, conflicts, and defenses
Technique + supporting research
Psychodynamic formulation and therapeutic action
Psychodynamic team approach to integrated treatment

All meetings are conducted over Zoom. Seminars take place on Monday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. (Eastern). Team meetings are on Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. and patients are seen on Tuesdays and Fridays at a mutually workable time. Supervision times are determined by the participant and their supervisor.

Participants may elect to attend group supervision on Fridays at 9:30 a.m. and have access to the Austen Riggs Center online library. Participants are eligible to receive continuing education credits from the seminars and a program certificate.

Participant applicant requirements:

Must be a doctoral-level clinician licensed in Massachusetts
Must have malpractice insurance
Must have an interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy, young adult populations, and a team approach to treatment

To apply please submit the following: