Program Description

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, supervision, 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.

The NYIPT proudly maintains a faculty of 35 teachers, supervisors and administrative staff.  All NYIPT faculty and supervisors are senior clinicians with considerable experience teaching and supervising.  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 supervisors 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.

A Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is awarded upon completion of the three-year training program.  The certificate reflects satisfactory completion of all course work, supervision, clinical hours and personal therapy.

In addition to offering a Certificate to its graduates, NYIPT and its Graduate Society offers candidates and graduates the opportunity to assist or participate in ACS and other trainings and to enroll in any courses and training workshops offered to post-graduate-level therapists, in-service trainings at agencies and schools, and any Continuing Education Programs that we offer.  The Program continues to build its community outreach and collaboration with various child mental health facilities and designated schools in the five boroughs of New York City.