ISTDP Foundational Training

Service Description

Discover The Iron North Protocol's focused and specialized training, where we offer a profound 3-year journey into Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). This in-depth training comprises 10 immersive weekends per year —either in-person or online— reinforcing your skills and technical abilities through hands-on supervision and active feedback. Elevate your understanding of mental health as we delve into the fundamentals of ISTDP, enhancing your practice for a healthier, more balanced life. Training will include understanding in emotional rise, resistance, fragility, tactical and personality defences, pressure, leveraging the unconscious therapeutic alliance, utilizing transference and counter-transference, and many more. Video based feedback will give you direct and useable tips on how to improve your clinical practice. Additional skill will include creating emotional armour, to help ward against burnout and being overwhelmed in the practice of psychotherapy. At the end, you will receive certification in the Iron North Protocol's ISTDP identifying you as an advanced psychotherapist.