Advanced Certificate Training Program for Licensed Clinicians
The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago invites licensed therapists to participate in a comprehensive year-long training experience where you will deepen and refine your therapeutic skills. Regardless of where you are on the learning curve of applied clinical practice, this innovative program offers new and challenging ways to both stretch your critical thinking and increase your proficiency and confidence as a therapist.
What Makes This Program Different?
Sure, we do offer continuing education for CEUs, but more importantly, we provide a career defining experience. Sound dramatic? That's because it is. At the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy, we explore multiple theoretical disciplines and guide you to deeply integrate psychodynamic theory into your daily practice. This is accomplished using our exclusive practice model based on the latest scientific evidence that supports the importance of attachment as it shapes development, defense structures and the neurological impact of trauma.
KEY DIFFERENTIATORS
1. Comprehensive & Integrative: Participants are presented with a sustained program of learning that supports the ability to integrate the newest research and therapeutic techniques in a way that both strengthens the therapeutic alliance, as well as becoming more proficient around "what to say next." The training model we use is applicable across therapeutic disciplines.
2. Faculty Collaboration & Commitment: All faculty members participate in every residency experience, where student witness an active dialogue between faculty on their varying theoretical perspectives and intervention approaches. This structure illustrates how to integrate key concepts as well as encourages students to share their own areas of expertise. The result--lively discussion and a respectful, inclusive community where heart and mind come together.
3. Personal & Professional Development: Small group case consultations offer in-depth, practical learning as each of the theoretical concepts and training techniques become integrated into your own clinical case work. Faculty and student collaborations, held over the course of the 12-month experience, builds professional confidence through a peer-reinforced exchange as well as providing a personalized mentoring experience.
4. Lifelong Learning: Reaching across the learning curve of psychotherapy practice, our program accommodates and targets learners at different stages of their professional and personal development, from recently licensed to seasoned clinicians. In addition, program graduates may choose to return for ongoing professional consultations with faculty and peers to continue growth.
5. Manageable Time Commitment: Designed for the working professional, there are no required readings or homework – an average of 2 ½ hours a week of your time.
Through the unique structure of this program, faculty are able to more intimately connect with students to support the development of each participant's unique style while providing a new lens for which to conceptualize and treat cases. Ultimately, students experience a real sense of community and gain a professional support network with faculty and other program participants that lasts long after the year-long program comes to an end.
KEY DIFFERENTIATORS
1. Comprehensive & Integrative: Participants are presented with a sustained program of learning that supports the ability to integrate the newest research and therapeutic techniques in a way that both strengthens the therapeutic alliance, as well as becoming more proficient around "what to say next." The training model we use is applicable across therapeutic disciplines.
2. Faculty Collaboration & Commitment: All faculty members participate in every residency experience, where student witness an active dialogue between faculty on their varying theoretical perspectives and intervention approaches. This structure illustrates how to integrate key concepts as well as encourages students to share their own areas of expertise. The result--lively discussion and a respectful, inclusive community where heart and mind come together.
3. Personal & Professional Development: Small group case consultations offer in-depth, practical learning as each of the theoretical concepts and training techniques become integrated into your own clinical case work. Faculty and student collaborations, held over the course of the 12-month experience, builds professional confidence through a peer-reinforced exchange as well as providing a personalized mentoring experience.
4. Lifelong Learning: Reaching across the learning curve of psychotherapy practice, our program accommodates and targets learners at different stages of their professional and personal development, from recently licensed to seasoned clinicians. In addition, program graduates may choose to return for ongoing professional consultations with faculty and peers to continue growth.
5. Manageable Time Commitment: Designed for the working professional, there are no required readings or homework – an average of 2 ½ hours a week of your time.
Through the unique structure of this program, faculty are able to more intimately connect with students to support the development of each participant's unique style while providing a new lens for which to conceptualize and treat cases. Ultimately, students experience a real sense of community and gain a professional support network with faculty and other program participants that lasts long after the year-long program comes to an end.
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Increasing cultural sensitivity around issues of power, privilege, and marginalization is an integral part of our training interaction. Learn more about our position on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion here. |
"What Our Graduates Are Saying"
"I learned more clinical skills in one year at the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy than I did during two years in my graduate school program." - Shambra Mulder, PhD |
"I'm more comfortable and confident in session, and clients respond to that. They stay in treatment and refer new clients, which helped grow my practice." - Jeff Yocom, LCSW |
"The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy and its faculty did a fantastic job of creating a sense of community among the students and faculty." - Katelyn Tippett, LMFT |
Continuing Education Information
The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The certificate program is offering 72 hours of continuing education credits for psychologists.
- Social workers licensed in the state of Illinois will receive 72 hours of credit through Loyola University School of Social Work. Social Workers licensed outside of Illinois should check with their state licensing board to determine where CE credits approved by the APA and/or the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) are accepted.
Get in Touch With Us
For more information about the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy program at Loyola University Chicago, please contact us today.
The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Rd., | Chicago, IL 60660
312.915.7034 | ktippett@luc-iap.com
1032 W. Sheridan Rd., | Chicago, IL 60660
312.915.7034 | ktippett@luc-iap.com