NYIPT 3 Year Training Program

THE NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence (NYIPT), provides low-cost training and supervision in psychodynamic psychotherapy and play therapy for mental health workers who are interested in working with infants, children, adolescents and their parents. Our three-year training program has a core curriculum that integrates contemporary psychoanalytic theory and research with clinical technique.

Candidates gain an in-depth understanding of infants, children and adolescents in the context of their families and culture.  Our educational programs include seminars, workshops, clinical consultation, and clinical placements for all candidates at various community mental health centers and schools throughout New York City.  Candidates conduct a minimum of five child/patient sessions and one weekly parent collateral totaling six weekly clinic field-placement hours with children and their parents.  Income derived from clinical work can be used to offset the cost of tuition.

NYIPT proudly maintains a faculty of 35 teachers, clinical consultants and administrative staff.  All NYIPT faculty and clinical consultants are senior clinicians with considerable experience teaching and consulting.  A number of the NYIPT faculty were formerly associated with the New Hope Guild  Child and Adolescent Therapy Training Program.  Many also teach and/or supervise at other training institutes such as IPTAR, NPAP, NIP and The Freudian Society.

NYIPT is an institute without walls.  Its main office is located at 3701 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York; however, all courses and supervision are conducted in the offices of faculty and clinical consultants throughout Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.  The NYIPT Program has been issued a provisional charter which is renewed every five years by the New York State Department of Education, Board of Regents.