A One-Year Certificate Program in Advanced Psychotherapy Tailored for Working Professionals

The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago was originally founded by James (Jim) Wayne, BCD, LCSW, in 2015, under the name Wayne Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy. In 2021, Loyola University Chicago adopted the program added it to its School of Social Work's professional development certificate programs. 

What makes this course different from other continuing education programs is that the framework incorporates multiple theoretical disciplines and offers a method of case conceptualization that includes various listening and intervention techniques from other treatment approaches. The result is today’s immersive learning experience that combines on-site residency instruction, remote small-group consultation and webinars to enable participants to continue working full time in their practices while going through the program.
  • Topics include:
  • Relational Psychodynamic Theory
  • Practical Clinical Listening and Intervention Techniques
  • Attachment Theory
  • Addiction from a Psychodynamic Perspective
  • Cultural Context
  • Trauma; Its Effects and Treatment
  • Clinical Integration of Neuroscientific Findings
  • Transference and Countertransference​
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Spirituality and Therapy
  • Ethics: Suicide Assessment and management​
  • Power and Oppression and the Therapeutic Process
  • Termination
  • Somatic Experiencing
  • Learned Loyalty Contracts
  • Splitting and Dissociative Process
  • Expressive Therapies as a Psychodynamic Bridge ​

Our Mission

The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy is to offer licensed mental health professionals a comprehensive training experience that integrates each practitioner’s skill set with the theories, research and practices shaping contemporary psychotherapy.

The faculty integrates varied treatment modalities into an integrated clinical model applicable to diverse populations and treatment environments.

​The goal is for students to emerge with increased competence and confidence, bringing new levels of proficiency and effectiveness to clients they treat, colleagues with whom they consult and communities that they serve.

Our Values

At the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy, we believe that becoming the best therapist possible requires a commitment to several professional values. Our curriculum is designed to help program participants integrate these values into their practices:
 
  • Dedication to developing a genuine, empathetic connection with clients
  • Willingness to be an authentic human while engaging in transformative therapeutic partnerships
  • Commitment to sound clinical theory, always informed and updated by current research
  • Perseverance in learning throughout the entirety of one’s career
  • Openness to looking at one’s own challenges as a clinician; identifying personal blind spots and vulnerabilities

Theoretical Grounding

The curriculum at the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy is based on a core set of theoretical concepts that inform the clinical model and techniques we teach. These are:

  • Human beings are hard-wired for growth, resilience and momentum toward authenticity.
  • Human development is fueled by early attachment patterns and processes, which powerfully impact adult life.
  • Difficulties and obstacles in living and relating to others can best be understood not as deficits, but rather as early failures of attunement and/or varying degrees of relational trauma.
  • “Symptoms” are efforts at adaptation.
  • It is the relationship between therapist and client that ultimately allows true, sustainable healing.
  • There is no one “right way” to be in the world. Human beings exist in multiple contexts and deserve to be respected and honored in their complexity.

Get in Touch With Us

For more information about the 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 | [email protected]