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SUMMARY:DBT Meets ED: Where DBT Skills and Eating Disorder Recovery Connect
DESCRIPTION:with Stephanie Jacobs\, PhD\n? Fridays\, January 9th & 16th\, 2026               ⏲ 12pm-2pm EST               ⚲ Virtual on Zoom \n4 NYC CE Credit  \nThis workshop will not be recorded \nREGISTRATION >\nGeneral Admission: $165\nICP Community: $130\nICP Therapists: $85\nCandidate/Graduate/Undergraduate Student: $50 \nAbout This Workshop\n\n\nFor mental health professionals who want to deepen their toolkit\, this unique 4-hour workshop offers both insight and integration. In the first 2 hours\, we’ll revisit foundational Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) principles with the assumption that attendees have basic familiarity. In the second half\, we’ll dive into how DBT skills can be directly applied within evidence-based eating disorder treatment frameworks. \nWhether you’re looking to refine your therapeutic approach or better understand the nuanced relationship between emotion dysregulation and eating behaviors\, this workshop connects clinical theory with actionable application. \nWhat You’ll Learn:\n✔ How emotion dysregulation and eating disorders intersect\n✔ How to apply a dialectical lens to ED recovery\n✔ Practical methods for integrating DBT skills into ED treatment \nThis workshop is designed to inspire both confidence and competence in treating complex eating presentations. For clinicians\, therapists\, and practitioners working in eating disorder recovery. \n\nAbout The Presenter\nStephanie Jacobs\, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who works with adults\, adolescents\, children\, families\, schools\, and organizations. Dr. Jacobs has extensive training and experience using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT)\, Family Based Treatment (FBT)\, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)\, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to treat eating disorders\, anxiety disorders\, OCD and related disorders\, substance abuse\, personality disorders\, as well as varying behavioral and emotional challenges. In addition to conducting individual\, couples\, and family therapy\, Dr. Jacobs leads CBT and DBT skills training groups. She uses her breadth and depth of knowledge to individually tailor treatment to the children\, adolescents\, and adults with whom she works. Dr. Jacobs received her undergraduate degree from Binghamton University\, her master’s degree (MHC) from Brooklyn College\, and her doctoral degree (Ph.D.) from Fairleigh Dickinson University. While practicing as a clinical psychologist at the Mount Sinai Health System\, Dr. Jacobs also previously held roles as the Program Director of the Mount Sinai Eating and Weight Disorder Program’s Adolescent Intensive Care program\, as well as Director of Outreach and Prevention. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Center for Motivation and Change (CMC)\, treating substance abuse disorders and co-occurring disorders within outpatient and intensive outpatient/day program settings. Dr. Jacobs is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Academy of Eating Disorders. \nImportant Information\n\nICP Community includes current ICP faculty\, supervisors\, and alumni of ICP’s training programs. Please note that for alumni to qualify for this rate\, you must have graduated within 5 years.\nIf the cost of this event presents a financial barrier\, please contact us at CSAB@icpnyc.org. We are happy to offer a reduced rate when needed to ensure accessibility.\n An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, creative arts therapists\, psychologists and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA).\nCE certificates will be emailed to you. We kindly ask for your patience\, as we’re a small team\, and responding to repeated inquiries about information already shared adds to our administrative workload. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.\nRefund Policy: Please note that refunds for all ICP workshops are available up until one week before the start of the workshop or module.\n\n 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/dbt-meets-ed/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Workshop,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Book launch: “Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality“
DESCRIPTION:Juliane Maxwald\, LP\n? Thursday\, January 8th\, 2026\n⏲ 7pm-9pm EST\n⚲ Virtual on Zoom \n\n \n2 NYC CE Credit 2 AASECT CE Credits\n$80 – General Admission\n$60- ICP Community\n$45 – ICP Therapist\n$25 – ICP Candidate/ Undergraduate Student/Graduate Student \nAbout This Workshop\nJuliane Maxwald is a licensed psychoanalyst\, couples therapist and AASECT certified sex therapist. In her forthcoming book\, Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality\, she brings together psychoanalysis\, trauma theory\, and sex therapy to show how unconscious life reveals itself in our intimate worlds through desire\, inhibition\, conflict\, and the patterns that often speak louder than words. Through clinical cases and theoretical framing\, the book demonstrates how sexuality functions as a hidden language of longing and defense\, and how therapy can transform that language into recognition\, connection\, and growth. \nAbout The Presenter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJuliane Maxwald (coming soon) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n___________________ \n\nICP Community includes current ICP faculty\, supervisors\, and alumni of ICP’s training programs. Please note that for alumni to qualify for this rate\, you must have graduated within 5 years.\nIf the cost of this event presents a financial barrier\, please contact us at stp@icpnyc.org. We are happy to offer a reduced rate when needed to ensure accessibility.\n An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, creative arts therapists\, psychologists and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA).\nCE certificates will be emailed to you. We kindly ask for your patience\, as we’re a small team\, and responding to repeated inquiries about information already shared adds to our administrative workload. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.\nRefund Policy: Please note that refunds for all ICP workshops are available up until one week before the start of the workshop or module. Fees assessed by third-party ticketing or payment processors are outside of our control and cannot be refunded. We are unable to issue refunds for technical difficulties\, including platform issues\, internet connectivity\, or device-related problems.
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/psychoanalytic-sex-therapy-book/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Lecture Series,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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SUMMARY:Talking about Sex in Psychotherapy: Why it Matters\, How and When to do it
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 11th\, 2025\n7:00–9:00 PM EST\nVIRTUAL ON ZOOM\n$80 General Admission\n$60 ICP Community\n$45 ICP Therapist\n$25 ICP Candidates and Graduate/Undergraduate Students \n > > Register\nTalking about Sex in Psychotherapy:\nWhy it Matters\, How and When to Do It\nwith Kathryn S.K. Hall\, Ph.D\n\n\nThis event is approved for\n2 NYS CE Credits \nSex is a central part of the human experience\, yet it remains one of the most elusive topics in psychotherapy. This workshop explores why talking about sex is not just important\, but often essential to deep\, effective therapeutic work. When approached thoughtfully\, discussions about sexuality can strengthen the therapeutic alliance\, reinforce boundaries\, and invite access to core aspects of a patient’s inner world\, including identity\, intimacy\, shame\, desire\, and relational dynamics. \nWe will examine how conversations about sex can help move therapy forward when patients are stuck\, evasive\, or when deeper psychological material is trying to emerge. The workshop will also offer practical guidance on how to initiate and navigate these conversations—whether during an initial evaluation or as part of ongoing psychotherapy. \nThrough detailed clinical case discussions and open dialogue\, participants will learn to recognize opportunities to bring sexuality into the room in ways that are clinically meaningful and ethically sound. Questions\, discussion\, and reflection on participants’ own clinical experiences will be welcomed throughout the presentation. \nAbout the Presenter:  \nKathryn S.K. Hall\, Ph.D.\, is a licensed psychologist with over four decades of experience in sex therapy and research. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from McGill University in Montreal\, Canada\, and has since become a leading voice in the field of sex therapy. \nDr. Hall has lectured and written extensively on topics related to sexual health\, psychotherapy\, and the cultural influences on sexual well-being. Her latest book\, Talking About Sex in Psychotherapy\, is set for release by the American Psychological Association Press in November 2025. She also maintains an active private practice specializing in the treatment of sexual concerns and sits on the Special Classification Review Board\, a panel of experts appointed by the Governor of New Jersey responsible for overseeing treatment progress and determining parole readiness for incarcerated sex offenders. \nShe is passionate about mentorship\, and she provides training in sex therapy for both emerging and experienced clinicians. Dr. Hall also serves as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy and is a Past President of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research. \n\nICP Community includes current ICP faculty\, supervisors\, and alumni of ICP’s training programs. Please note that for alumni to qualify for this rate\, you must have graduated within 5 years.\nIf the cost of this event presents a financial barrier\, please contact us at stp@icpnyc.org. We are happy to offer a reduced rate when needed to ensure accessibility.\n An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, creative arts therapists\, psychologists and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA).\nRefund Policy: Please note that refunds for all ICP workshops are available up until one week before the start of the workshop or module.
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/talking-about-sex-in-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Lecture Series,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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SUMMARY:Not Everything is Trauma: Assessing the Depth of Emotional Wounds for Effective Treatment
DESCRIPTION:with Antonieta Contreras\, LCSW-R\, BCN\, EMDRIA\, CCPT-II\nMonday\, November 17\, 2025\n6:30 – 8:30 PM EST\nVirtual\, on Zoom\n(this event will be recorded\, if you miss it\, please reach out for the recording)\n  \n\n2 Continuing Education Credits. \n\nMany clients arrive in pain\, yet not every hurt is trauma—and calling it so can keep them going in circles due to the use of the wrong interventions. This workshop shows how to distinguish between genuine survival responses and the normal\, if painful\, work of adaptation. Drawing on the forthcoming How Deep Is the Wound? (August 2025)\, we’ll trace the neurobiological line that divides emotional wounds from traumatic injuries. You’ll learn “observing-self” exercises and participate in small-group case mapping to read the body-brain clues that reveal a wound’s depth. \nWe’ll explore how culture\, temperament\, and development shape threat perception; when unfinished survival impulses matter; and how to move clients from helpless labels to informed self-assessment and agency. Attendees will leave with practical tools\, clear handouts\, and interventions they can use both in session and as client homework. \n\n  \n\n\nAntonieta Contreras is the author of the award-winning book Traumatization And Its Aftermath. A former banker and business consultant born in Mexico\, she is a Gestalt-trained psychotherapist\, who graduated as a social worker from NYU. She obtained a specialization in Trauma Studies from the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP)\, in Human Sexuality from NYU The School of Medicine\, and is a Board Certified Neurofeedback Clinician. \nIn her private practice\, Antonieta integrates various modalities she’s certified on focused on trauma treatment alongside contemplative techniques she learned during her time in India and from Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Actively engaged in the field\, she has been given presentations in clinics and hospitals about trauma since 2015. She serves as a Board member and Treasurer of the New York Association of Trauma Therapists (NYCATT). Antonieta\, former co-director of the ICP Trauma Studies Program\, is a presenter\, supervisor\, and EMDRIA approved consultant. Her new book How Deep is the Wound?—A Guide to Resolving Your Emotional Struggles from Everyday Insecurities to Ceaseless Abuse is available in Aug 2025. \nGeneral Admission: $80\nICP Affiliated Professionals: $65\nCurrent ICP Therapists: $40\nGraduate and Undergraduate Students/ICP Candidates: $25  \n\n\n\nICP Community includes current ICP faculty\, supervisors\, and alumni of ICP’s training programs. Please note that for alumni to qualify for this rate\, you must have graduated within 5 years. If the cost of this event presents a financial barrier\, please contact us csab@icpnyc.org. We are happy to offer a reduced rate when needed to ensure accessibility.\n\n\n\n\nAn important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA). \nCE certificates will be emailed to you. We kindly ask for your patience\, as we’re a small team\, and responding to repeated inquiries about information already shared adds to our administrative workload. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. \n 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/not-everything-is-trauma/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Workshop,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Boundaries Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nHealing in Connection: Ethical Boundaries in the Clinical Relationship\n\nwith Navah Steiner\, LCAT and Adam Reynolds\, PhD\, LCSW\nMonday\, November 3\, 2025\n6:00–9:00 PM ET\nVIRTUAL ON ZOOM\nREGISTER\n\n3 Continuing Education Credits.  \n\nThis workshop meets the requirements for the NYS Board of Regents’ 3 hours of acceptable continuing education on issues related to maintaining appropriate professional boundaries between licensees and patients. \n\nThe therapeutic relationship is central to healing\, and setting and maintaining ethical boundaries is essential to creating that relationship. This course will create a collaborative space for exploring how we define\, establish\, and maintain healthy boundaries within our practice\, particularly in the face of new technologies and social norms that continue to create new challenges. By exploring the relationship between ethical values and boundaries\, strategizing how to respond to case examples\, and practicing reflective skills to refine our relationships with clients\, we will strengthen our collective capacity to engage in this critical therapeutic work. \nIn this workshop\, you’ll: \n\nClarify how ethical values inform boundary-setting in the clinical relationship.\nStrategize responses to real-world case examples\, including challenges introduced by technology and social media.\nPractice reflective skills to strengthen use of self and therapeutic alliance.\nDevelop practical guidelines to establish\, communicate\, and maintain healthy boundaries with clients.\n\nWho Should Attend:\nClinicians\, supervisors\, and trainees seeking to refine ethical decision-making and boundary-setting skills in contemporary practice. \n$65 – General Admission\n$50 – ICP Community\n$45 – ICP Therapist\n$30 – ICP Candidate / Undergraduate Student / Graduate Student\n\n\n\nICP Community includes current ICP faculty\, supervisors\, and alumni of ICP’s training programs.\nPlease note that for alumni to qualify for this rate\, you must have graduated within 5 years.\n\nIf the cost of this event presents a financial barrier\, please contact us at\nAT@ICPNYC.org. We are happy to offer a reduced rate when needed to ensure accessibility.\n\nNYS Continuing Education Information \n\nThe Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts.\nThe Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education credit for licensed social workers.\nThe Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors.\nThe Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists.\nThe Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists.\nThe Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists.\n\nAASECT CE Credit Information \n\nThe Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is a Provider Organization of the American Association of Sexuality Educators\, Counselors and Therapists. Select workshops and modules offered by ICP meet the requirements AASECT and are approved for CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT Certification and renewal of certification.\n\n 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/ethics-boundaries-workshop/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Workshop,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T173000
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SUMMARY:Clinical Implications of Intergenerational Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Clinical Implications of Intergenerational Trauma\nwith Irit Felsen\, PhD\nThursday\, October 23\, 2025\n5:30 – 7:30 PM EST\nin person\, at ICP\n(this event won’t be streamed or recorded)\n\n\n2 Continuing Education Credits. \n\nThis is a follow-up to an event that took place earlier this year\, but attendance at the previous event is not required. You’re more than welcome to join us even if you missed part one!\nIn the second part of her presentation about intergenerational transmission of parental/ancestral trauma\, Irit Felsen\, PhD will be focusing on clinical implications for working with individuals from trauma-exposed groups. Recent approaches increasingly recognize the importance of historical trauma and of intergenerational processes as these shape the content and expression of particular psychological themes\, vulnerabilities and resiliencies in the descendants of trauma\, and their responses to current traumatic experiences and reminders of ancestral trauma.  Current wars and catastrophes\, national and international political upheaval\, and the erosion of democratic norms have intensely impacted patients and therapists in recent years and require the capacity to address in therapy the fear and anxiety in response to these national and international affairs\, the impact of these experiences on the therapeutic dyad\, and how both patient and therapist are influenced by legacies of historical trauma.  A trauma-focused framework will be presented\, addressing specific clinical factors and interventions for working with individuals whose presenting problems might also be rooted in intergenerationally transmitted traumatic experiences.  Identifying\, comprehending\, and working with the reverberations of intergenerational transmission of trauma might be critical for adequate treatment\, for symptom reduction and for enhancing patients’ resilience and well-being in trying times. \n\n\nIrit Felsen\, PhD is a clinical psychologist specializing in the effects of trauma and traumatic loss and intergenerational transmission of both trauma and resiliencies in families. \nDr. Felsen is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University and had been an assistant professor at Yeshiva University Graduate School of Psychology for 14 years. She obtained her MA in Clinical Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, her PhD the University of Hamburg\, Germany\, and her postdoctoral training at Yale University. Dr. Felsen worked in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings\, and since 9/11\, has served on a national emergency response team. Dr. Felsen is a Fellow of Division 56 (Trauma Division) in the APA\, chair of the Trauma Working Group of the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations\, a member of the National Center for Crisis Management and the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress\, and she was chair of the Work Group on Older Adults in the Interdivision APA Covid-19 Task Force. \nDr. Felsen’s research papers have been published in peer reviewed publications including American Journal of Orthopsychiatry; Psychoanalytic Psychology; Psychoanalysis\, Self and Context; American Journal of Psychiatry; Psychotherapy Research; Psychological Trauma: Theory\, Research\, Practice\, Policy; American Psychology; and others. She has contributed multiple book chapters\, among which a chapter in Charles Figley’s “Pandemic Providers” (2023)\, and a most recent one in “Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Descendants of Holocaust Survivors” (2024). She maintains a private practice in Englewood\, NJ. Dr. \nFelsen’s art has been featured in art exhibitions in Hamburg\, London\, and was chosen as the emblem of the exhibition of the Arts Council of the Morris Area in 2010. \n\nGeneral Admission: $75\nICP-Affiliated Professionals: $60\nCurrent ICP Therapists: $40\nCurrent Candidate/Graduate or Undergraduate Student: $25\n\nAn important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA).
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/intergenerational-trauma-2/
LOCATION:ICP\, 33 W 60th St.\, 4FL\, New York\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:CE Workshop,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T210000
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SUMMARY:SICP Lecture Series: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation\, Racial Rage\, and Racial Guilt
DESCRIPTION:Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation\, Racial Rage\, and Racial Guilt.\nDavid L. Eng\, PhD & Shinhee Han\, PhD\n\nFriday\, October 17\, 2025\, from 7 to 9 pm\nin-person at ICP\n(The lecture won’t be streamed or recorded)\nRefreshments and conversation at 9 pm following the lecture. \n2 NYS CE Credits\nFocusing on the social and psychic lives of Asian Americans\, Eng and Han trace their three-decade collaboration across classroom and clinic\, from their groundbreaking work on racial melancholia and racial dissociation to a discussion of their current thinking on racial rage\, racial guilt\, and the uses of anger for Asian Americans. Using clinical examples\, they investigate the ways in which losses connected to immigration\, assimilation\, and racialization processes are mediated\, mitigated\, and exacerbated through rage and guilt for Asian Americans. In particular\, they explore the exemplary role of the Asian American therapist as an emotional custodian for black rage and white guilt\, along with issues of racial hate in the countertransference. \n  \nDavid L. Eng\, PhD is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he is also Professor in the Programs of Asian American Studies\, Comparative Literature & Literary Theory\, and Gender\, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. A specialist in law\, psychoanalysis\, queer theory\, comparative race studies\, and Asian diaspora\, Eng is the recipient of research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies\, and the Mellon Foundation\, among others. He is an honorary member of IPTAR and a recipient of the Kessler Prize\, given to a scholar or activist with a major contribution to LGBTQ Studies. Eng is the author of four monographs including\, most recently\, Reparations and the Human (Duke\, 2025).  He is also co-editor of numerous collections including Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California\, 2003) and Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple\, 1998). \n  \nShinhee Han\, PhD\, is a senior psychotherapist at the New School University Counseling Service and in private practice in New York City. She is the co-author (with David L. Eng) of Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke\, 2019). She is also a founding member of the Asian Women Giving Circle in NYC\, a philanthropic organization that funds Asian women artist creating social activism and change. Previously\, she was a therapist at the University of Chicago\, Northwestern University\, Barnard College\, and Columbia University.  \n  \n<P> \n$70 – General Admission\n$60- ICP Affiliated Professionals\n$45 – ICP Therapist \n$35 – ICP Candidate/ Undergraduate Student / Graduate Student\n\nAn important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, creative arts therapists\, psychologists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA).
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/eng_han_lecture/
LOCATION:ICP\, 33 W 60th St.\, 4FL\, New York\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:CE Lecture Series,CE Workshop,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality
DESCRIPTION:Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality\nAn Interactive Workshop on Sex\, Psychedelics\, and The Power of Pleasure\n\nwith DeeDee Goldpaugh\, LCSW\nThursday\, October 9\, 2025 from 7:00PM-9:00PM on Zoom\n2 NYS CE and AASECT Credits! \n\nAfter several decades of clinical research into their therapeutic potential\, psychedelic medicines in clinical contexts stand to shift the paradigm of how we have approached the treatment of depression\, anxiety\, trauma\, and other mental health issues. However research into the impact of psychedelics on sexuality is just beginning. In this interactive presentation\, clinician and author Dee Dee Goldpaugh will outline the emerging research on psychedelics and sexuality\, but go far beyond that to ask questions about how prohibiting pleasure has molded our current drug laws\, why pleasure is omitted from the narrative about psychedelic healing\, and how psychedelics can help us to embrace our erotic power for optimal sexual experiences and sexual self-actualization.  \nBased on their new book\, Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality\, Dee Dee will provide practical education on psychedelic preparation and integration in sex therapy practice\, explore how different psychedelic medicines impact sexual satisfaction and pleasure\, and offer a new framework for working with sexual trauma. Grounded in research\, this presentation will also strive to critique the neo-liberal and capitalist structures that exist in our society and in psychedelic science that prevent us from embracing pleasure\, creating community\, and engaging in meaningful erotic connection while centering on the uplifting message that pleasure (and psychedelics medicines) have the power to heal us.  \nAbout the Presenter: \nDee Dee Goldpaugh\, LCSW is a psychotherapist\, consultant\, educator\, and author. They are the Clinical Director of Chrysalis Integrative Psychotherapy\, the Women\, Gender Diversity\, and Sexual Minorities Advisor for The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines\, and they are part of the Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy team at the Woodstock Therapy Center. Dee Dee has authored the first paper to appear in an academic journal describing Psychedelic Integration Psychotherapy techniques that incorporate spirituality for sexual trauma survivors. They also served as a Clinical Supervisor for the EMBARK approach to Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy in addition to having facilitated numerous Ketamine-Assisted Transformational retreats. Dee Dee has been a frequent presenter at international conferences including the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research\, Psychedelic Culture\, Psychedelic Science. They have over seventeen years of professional clinical experience and training in diverse modalities including EMDR\, Internal Family System\, Sex Therapy\, psychodynamic\, and transpersonal therapy models and are the author of the book Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality. 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/sexual-trauma-psychedelics/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Lecture Series,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T200000
DTSTAMP:20251009T153147Z
CREATED:20250808T150924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T153147Z
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SUMMARY:Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harm Reduction & Recovery in LGBTQIA+ Communities
DESCRIPTION:Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harm Reduction & Recovery in LGBTQIA+ Communities with Giorgio Handman\, LCSW\nOctober 8\, 15\, 22 & 29\, 2025 from 6pm-8pm on Zoom\n8 NYS CE Credits! \nHarm Reduction is an essential practice for all social workers\, especially amidst an ongoing overdose crisis. increasing inequities\, and widespread misunderstanding of substance use and mental health issues. Within the LGBTQAI community substance use is amplified by higher rates of use\, which require specifically attuned harm reduction approaches. It is imperative for social workers to have a clear framework to support themselves and those they work with. This workshop will provide participants with a familiarity and understanding of the core principles of the Harm Reduction Model. Through experiential learning that will incorporate role plays\, dialogue\, and an overview of harm reduction principles\, participants will begin/continue to learn how to apply a harm reduction lens to their clinical work within the LGBTQIA community. This workshop will also explore and discuss complementary interventions that support harm reduction work in practice. There will be an opportunity for participants to share case examples\, engage in teaching/learning and receive peer support/feedback. Participants should come prepared for an interactive workshop that will invite you to self-reflect\, engage in partner shares\, and larger group practices. \nAbout the Presenter: \n\n\n\nGiorgio Handman is a social worker\, artist\, and a lover of harm reduction. He graduated from The Silberman School of Social Work in 2012. Giorgio completed a mindfulness facilitator training at the Engaged Mindfulness Institute and has incorporated mindfulness into his social work practice and harm reduction work with young people experiencing homelessness\, veterans\, people living with HIV/AIDS\, and individuals navigating substance use and currently practices harm reduction at the REACH clinic at Mount Sinai. Giorgio provides harm reduction trainings at hospitals\, shelters\, social work schools and social service agencies from New York to Australia. Giorgio is committed to working in community to promote wellness\, joy and harmony. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration for this course has closed.  \n\n 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/harm-reduction-2025/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Lecture Series,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T210000
DTSTAMP:20250626T230913Z
CREATED:20250522T160023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T230913Z
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SUMMARY:Kink and Healing
DESCRIPTION:Kink and Healing\nwith Shveta Mittal\, PhD\nThursday\, June 26\, 2025 from 7:00PM-9:00PM on Zoom\n2 NYS CE and AASECT Credits! \n\nEmerging research demonstrates that BDSM/kink can assist individuals in healing from past trauma. Some kink practitioners appear to intentionally seek out these purposes from kink\, while others may experience healing as a by-product. This presentation aims to increase clinicians’ cultural competence with the diverse spectrum of kink sexualities\, relational dynamics\, and unique experiences of stigma. A brief introduction to the BDSM/Kink Community will be presented\, followed by a review of research and clinical accounts that support personal growth and healing from BDSM/Kink engagements. The risks and benefits of trauma-informed kink play for psychosomatic healing will also be reviewed and discussed. \nOver the course of this workshop\, attendees will learn common myths about BDSM Practitioners\, learn least 3 ways BDSM/Kink can facilitate personal growth and healing from trauma\, and be taught to identify potential risks to using BDSM/kink activities for psychological and somatic healing. \n\nAbout the Presenter: \n\n\n\nDr. Shveta Mittal is a licensed therapist\, certified psychedelic practitioner\, and leather lifestylist with more than a decade of experience helping clients develop a better understanding of themselves while facilitating improved coping\, insight and personal growth. She has worked specifically with first responders and individuals holding multiple minority identities\, providing culturally competent care from a sex-positive\, person-centered\, trauma-informed lens. Dr. Mittal is a co-chair of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 44 BDSM Task Force and a member/author of the APA’s Joint Committee on Sex Positive Guidelines. \n\n\n\n\nAn important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA). \n\n\nRegistration Pricing: \n$75 – General Admission\n$60 – ICP affiliated professionals\n$40 – Current ICP Therapists\n$25 – Current Grad Student/Current ICP Candidate \n\nRegistration for this course has closed. For more information\, please contact the program manager at STP@icpnyc.org \n 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/kink-healing/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Lecture Series,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T151500
DTSTAMP:20250604T163647Z
CREATED:20250416T150637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T163647Z
UID:10000728-1749044700-1749050100@icpnyc.org
SUMMARY:Sex Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Summer Sexuality Series:\nSex Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Trauma\nwith Suzanne Iasenza\, PhD\nWednesdays in June: June 4\, 11\, 18\, and 25 from 1:45pm-3:15pm on Zoom\n6 NYS CE and AASECT Credits! \nWhen sexual difficulties in adulthood are associated with past childhood sexual trauma shame often accompanies such intimate trauma. This workshop will provide a theoretical  understanding as well as clinical techniques in working with sexuality concerns of survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Case material will be discussed. \nIn this four-part series\, participants will: \n\nDiscuss how to create a safe therapeutic environment for survivors\nIdentify important aspects of assessment of childhood sexual abuse\nDescribe the central role of shame for survivors\nDescribe the use of a culturally sensitive relational sexual history to support sexual healing\nList clinical techniques that help survivors safely become more sexual\n\nAbout the Presenter: \n\n\n\nSuzanne Iasenza\, PhD is on the faculties of the Adelphi University Derner Institute’s Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis\, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP)\, where she is Co-Founder of the Sex Therapy Training Program (STP). She also teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family\, the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the Family Institute of Westchester. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and sex therapy in New York. Her latest book\, Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy recently received an award for exceptional merit from the Society for Sex Therapy and Research. \n\n\n\n\nAn important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA). \n\nRegistration for this course has closed. If you have questions or need the Zoom link\, please email STP@icpnyc.org  \n 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/summer-sex-2025/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Lecture Series,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T193000
DTSTAMP:20250528T191911Z
CREATED:20250129T230202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250528T191911Z
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SUMMARY:The Importance of Recognizing Different Trauma Syndromes and Their Neurobiological Differences
DESCRIPTION:The Importance of Recognizing Different Trauma Syndromes and Their Neurobiological Differences with Antonieta Contreras\n \n\n\nThursday\, May 29th\, 2025 \n5:30 – 7:30 pm EST \nvirtual on Zoom\n2 CE credits \n  \nThis 2-hour workshop explores how trauma rewires the brain at different developmental stages and under various circumstances\, showing that not all trauma fits the PTSD diagnosis. \nWe’ll examine trauma’s impact on the nervous system\, common misdiagnoses\, and differences between early neglect\, adolescent violence\, and systemic adversity. Participants will learn how factors like age\, type\, intensity\, and timing of trauma shape symptoms and guide intervention. Understanding these distinctions improves treatment by aligning interventions with each individual’s neurobiological adaptations. \nThe workshop emphasizes the importance of recognizing diverse trauma syndromes to support deeper healing and recovery. \nAntonieta Contreras\, a former banker and business consultant trained as a mathematician\, is a Gestalt-trained psychotherapist with a Master’s in Social Work from NYU. She specializes in trauma\, holding certifications from the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and NYU School of Medicine. Antonieta combines trauma modalities and contemplative practices learned in India and Tibetan Buddhism in her private practice. She serves as Board Member and Treasurer for the NYC Trauma Therapists\, and as a consultant\, supervisor\, and former co-director of ICP’s Trauma Studies Program. Antonieta is also the author of Traumatization and Its Aftermath. \n  \n2 NYS CE Credits \nFor any questions\, including those about accessibility or to request accommodations\, please contact Dominika at trauma@icpnyc.org\nAn important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. \nIf your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits from New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA).
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/trauma-syndromes-with-contreras/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Workshop,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T124500
DTSTAMP:20250501T222316Z
CREATED:20250306T184449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T222316Z
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SUMMARY:Psychopharmacology for Non-Medical Psychotherapists
DESCRIPTION:Psychopharmacology for Non-Medical Psychotherapists with Dr. Elon Richman\, M.D.\n\nThursday\, May 1st and 8th\, 2025 from 11:00am-12:45pm\n\n\nThis course provides non-medical psychotherapists with a foundational understanding of psychopharmacology to enhance collaboration with prescribing providers and support their clients more effectively. Topics include an overview of commonly prescribed medications for mood\, anxiety\, psychotic\, and substance use disorders\, their mechanisms of action\, potential side effects\, and clinical considerations. Participants will leave with practical tools to integrate psychopharmacology knowledge into their therapeutic practice. \nAbout Presenter: \nDr. Richman is board certified in both general and addiction psychiatry\, with expertise in the treatment of substance use disorders\, behavioral addictions\, mood and anxiety disorders\, post-traumatic stress disorder\, psychotic disorders and attention deficit disorder. In his private practice\, he is dedicated to helping individuals enhance their self-awareness and self-regulation through evidence-based treatments that integrate psychotherapy\, psychopharmacology\, mindfulness and lifestyle interventions. There are many paths to healing and Dr. Richman’s treatment philosophy emphasizes the transformative power of a collaborative relationship to guide clients toward growth and lasting insight. \nIn addition to his clinical work\, Dr. Richman is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He completed general psychiatry residency training at Emory School of Medicine\, with supplemental certifications through the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute and Institute for Dialogic Practice. Dr. Richman completed addiction psychiatry fellowship training at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and\, as faculty\, continues to teach on issues related to substance use disorders and other addictive behaviors. His scholarly work addresses the emerging field of psychedelics\, with academic publications featured in journals such as The American Journal of Psychiatry and Journal of Addiction Medicine. \nFor any questions\, including those about accessibility or to request accommodations\, please contact Daniella Ortiz at facts@icpnyc.org.\nAn important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits from New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA).
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/psychopharmacology-for-non-medical-psychotherapists/2025-05-08/
LOCATION:ICP\, 33 W 60th St.\, 4FL\, New York\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T200000
DTSTAMP:20250506T214817Z
CREATED:20250123T220319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T214817Z
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SUMMARY:Harm Reduction Therapy in Clinical Practice with the LGBTQIA+ Community
DESCRIPTION:Harm Reduction Therapy in Clinical Practice with the LGBTQIA+ Community with Giorgio Handman\, LCSW\nMay 7\, 14\, 21 & 28\, 2025 from 6pm-8pm on Zoom\n8 NYS CE Credits! \nHarm Reduction is an essential practice for all social workers\, especially amidst an ongoing overdose crisis. increasing inequities\, and widespread misunderstanding of substance use and mental health issues. Within the LGBTQAI community substance use is amplified by higher rates of use\, which require specifically attuned harm reduction approaches. It is imperative for social workers to have a clear framework to support themselves and those they work with. This workshop will provide participants with a familiarity and understanding of the core principles of the Harm Reduction Model. Through experiential learning that will incorporate role plays\, dialogue\, and an overview of harm reduction principles\, participants will begin/continue to learn how to apply a harm reduction lens to their clinical work within the LGBTQIA community. This workshop will also explore and discuss complementary interventions that support harm reduction work in practice. There will be an opportunity for participants to share case examples\, engage in teaching/learning and receive peer support/feedback. Participants should come prepared for an interactive workshop that will invite you to self-reflect\, engage in partner shares\, and larger group practices. \nAbout the Presenter: \n\n\n\nGiorgio Handman is a social worker\, artist\, and a lover of harm reduction. He graduated from The Silberman School of Social Work in 2012. Giorgio completed a mindfulness facilitator training at the Engaged Mindfulness Institute and has incorporated mindfulness into his social work practice and harm reduction work with young people experiencing homelessness\, veterans\, people living with HIV/AIDS\, and individuals navigating substance use and currently practices harm reduction at the REACH clinic at Mount Sinai. Giorgio provides harm reduction trainings at hospitals\, shelters\, social work schools and social service agencies from New York to Australia. Giorgio is committed to working in community to promote wellness\, joy and harmony. \n\n\n\n\nAn important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA). \n\nThis course has been postponed to a later date.  \n 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/pcgs-harm-reduction-2025/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Lecture Series,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250501T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250501T124500
DTSTAMP:20250421T172126Z
CREATED:20250313T203419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T172126Z
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SUMMARY:Psychopharmacology for Non-Medical Psychotherapists
DESCRIPTION:Psychopharmacology for Non-Medical Psychotherapists with Dr. Elon Richman\, M.D.\n\nThursday\, May 1st and 8th\, 2025 from 11:00am-12:45pm\n\nApproved for 3.5 NYS CE Credits!\n\n\nThis course provides non-medical psychotherapists with a foundational understanding of psychopharmacology to enhance collaboration with prescribing providers and support their clients more effectively. Topics include an overview of commonly prescribed medications for mood\, anxiety\, psychotic\, and substance use disorders\, their mechanisms of action\, potential side effects\, and clinical considerations. Participants will leave with practical tools to integrate psychopharmacology knowledge into their therapeutic practice. \nAbout Presenter: \nDr. Richman is board certified in both general and addiction psychiatry\, with expertise in the treatment of substance use disorders\, behavioral addictions\, mood and anxiety disorders\, post-traumatic stress disorder\, psychotic disorders and attention deficit disorder. In his private practice\, he is dedicated to helping individuals enhance their self-awareness and self-regulation through evidence-based treatments that integrate psychotherapy\, psychopharmacology\, mindfulness and lifestyle interventions. There are many paths to healing and Dr. Richman’s treatment philosophy emphasizes the transformative power of a collaborative relationship to guide clients toward growth and lasting insight. \nIn addition to his clinical work\, Dr. Richman is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He completed general psychiatry residency training at Emory School of Medicine\, with supplemental certifications through the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute and Institute for Dialogic Practice. Dr. Richman completed addiction psychiatry fellowship training at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and\, as faculty\, continues to teach on issues related to substance use disorders and other addictive behaviors. His scholarly work addresses the emerging field of psychedelics\, with academic publications featured in journals such as The American Journal of Psychiatry and Journal of Addiction Medicine. \nFor any questions\, including those about accessibility or to request accommodations\, please contact Daniella Ortiz at facts@icpnyc.org.\nAn important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits from New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA).
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/psychopharmacology-for-non-medical-psychotherapists-2/
LOCATION:ICP\, 33 W 60th St.\, 4FL\, New York\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T210000
DTSTAMP:20250317T221010Z
CREATED:20250221T165459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T221010Z
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SUMMARY:In-Person Lecture: Home is a Foreign Place: Immigrant Journeys
DESCRIPTION:SICP In-Person Lecture: \nHome is a Foreign Place: Immigrant Journeys\nwith Shari Appollon\, LCSW\, and Lilly Pavlinovic\, PhD\,\nwith Samanta Batra Mehta\, MS\, as discussant\n  \nThrough an intimate exploration of the immigrant experience\, psychoanalysts Shari Appollon\, LCSW\, and Lilly Pavlinovic\, PhD\, speak to journeys of dislocation and the search for home. Drawing on their clinical work and personal histories\, both speakers delve into the emotional mapping of migration\, examining themes of loss\, longing\, identity-formation and transformation. Shari Appollon’s paper contends with the impact of inter-generational trauma and unconscious elements of melancholia through the voices of her Haitian mother and grandmother and the effects of colonization\, and political and economic instability on their homeland. Lilly Pavlinovic’s paper explores the tender and charged analytic space between the psychoanalyst and her patient against the backdrop of a shared language\, and a shared culture torn apart by war and the traumatic splitting of the former Yugoslavia. The analyst in these papers is a transitional object\, linking past to present. The cocoon of the treatment room is a space to articulate profound loss\, re-configure alienation and reconstruct the irreconcilable in an attempt to suture the wounds of history. \nFriday\, April 25\, 2025\, from 7 to 9 pm\, in person at ICP\n Refreshments and conversation at 9 pm following the lecture\nApproved for 2 NYS CE Credits!\n  \n\nShari Appollon\, LCSW\, is a Haitian-American psychoanalyst\, and a graduate of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and of the One Year Program at The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. Shari is the Associate Director of Clinical Services at NYC Affirmative Psychotherapy. She is the recipient of NIP’s 2020 Educator’s Award for her paper “The Triple Entendre” which was published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues in 2021. Her paper “The Parable of the Sower” was runner-up for Division 39’s 2020 Candidate Essay Contest. She writes primarily about culture and psychoanalytic theory. Shari is in private practice in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\nDr. Lilly Pavlinovic\, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst\, is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute at Adelphi University\, and her M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies from the New School. She has a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the University of Zagreb in Croatia. Dr. Pavlinovic has presented papers at various international conferences. Her scholarly interests include working with patients with trauma histories related to war and immigration\, transformations of unrepresented states\, and Bionian and Post-Bionian Field theory.  She maintains a private practice in New York City. \nSamanta Batra Mehta\, MS\, is an advanced psychoanalytic candidate at ICP and a visual artist based in New York. Her artwork explores themes relating to identity\, memory and migration and has been exhibited in museums\, galleries and art fairs internationally. She is a recipient of NAAP’s Gradiva Award for her art\, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Grant Award. Samanta holds an MS degree from the London School of Economics. \n\n  \nPlease be advised that SICP events are selling out quickly\, and we strongly recommend purchasing your ticket in advance. If you purchase a ticket and do not receive a confirmation email\, please contact the program manager as soon as possible to ensure your registration is properly processed.\nThank you for your understanding\, and we look forward to seeing you at the event! \nFor any questions\, please contact SICP Program Manager Dominika at SICP@icpnyc.org.  \n  \n  \nAn important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA). \n  \n———————————————————————- \n\n  \nContinuing Education Information\nNYS Continuing Education Information\n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education credit for licensed social workers. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. \n 
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/home-is-a-foreign-place/
LOCATION:ICP\, 33 W 60th St.\, 4FL\, New York\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:CE Workshop,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T210000
DTSTAMP:20250401T162059Z
CREATED:20250305T185123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T162059Z
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SUMMARY:Supporting Vulnerable Communities: Clinical and Legal Perspectives in a Shifting Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Supporting Vulnerable Communities: Clinical and Legal Perspectives in a Shifting Landscape\nThursday\, April 3\, 2025\nfrom 6:30pm-9:00pm EST on Zoom\nThe Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy invites you to save the evening of Thursday\, April 3 for a virtual panel presentation co-sponsored with the Integrative Trauma Program at NIP\, entitled: Supporting Vulnerable Communities: Clinical and Legal Perspectives in a Shifting Landscape: As systems change\, how can we better support those most at risk? This panel will explore the intersections of clinical and legal advocacy\, offering insights into how we\, as a community\, can respond with knowledge\, compassion\, and action. \n  \nPresenters: \n\n\nVeronica Gonzalez\, Director of Client Services at Her Justice\, leads strategies for supporting survivors of gender-based violence\, trafficking\, and trauma. She oversees social services\, training\, and intake systems. \n\n\n\n\nSophie Dalsimer\, Co-Director of Health Justice at NYLPI\, advocates for immigrant noncitizens’ health and disability rights. With 10+ years of experience in legal defense\, she fights healthcare barriers for vulnerable groups. \n\n\n\n\nNavah Steiner\, is a trauma-informed psychotherapist with 25+ years of experience. Certified in EMDR and IFS\, they specialize in mental health\, activism\, LGBTQI affirmative therapy\, depression\, anxiety\, parenting\, and bereavement in dynamic\, relational approaches. \n\n\n\n\n\nM. Dru Levasseur\, Esq. is a leading advisor and strategist with 25+ years in law\, diversity & inclusion\, advocacy\, and philanthropy. He leads Dru Levasseur Consulting\, LLC\, and has directed Lambda Legal’s Transgender Rights Project and served in major media roles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives \n1) Describe ways to appropriately advise and support clients who are impacted by new immigration enforcement policies. \n2) Demonstrate understanding of newly developing risk factors for gender fluid folks and how to provide support at these historic\, unfolding times. \n3) Use documentation measures that protect clinicians and undocumented clients in the present and as things evolve. \n4) List ways to advocate for care in the face of uncertain continuation of insurance coverage for the trans community. \n\n\nFor any questions or concerns\, please email trauma@icpnyc.org.
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/supporting-vulnerable-communities-2025/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:CE Workshop,Lecture,Seminar,Training
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SUMMARY:In-Person Lecture: The Gendered Body as Home: Two Analysts’ Journeys “Coming Out” to Their Patients
DESCRIPTION:The Gendered Body as Home:\nTwo Analysts’ Journeys “Coming Out” to Their Patients\n  \nwith Gabriel DeCicco\, LCSW-R and\nBalin Anderson\, LCSW with\nSandra Silverman as discussant\nFriday\, November 15th\, 2024 7pm-9pm\nRefreshments and conversation at 9 following the lecture\n  \nApproved for 2 NYS CE Credits!\nTogether\, Gabriel DeCicco\, LCSW and Balin Anderson\, LCSW explore the clinical impacts of an analyst’s pregnancy and an analyst’s gender transition; the attendant body changes impact treatment in significant ways. Transitioning to a congruent gender identity or choosing to gestate brings a therapist face to face with their own embodiment; heightened attention to embodiment saturates the therapeutic dyad. A pregnant body is home to the growing baby; a pregnant person grapples with feeling at home with oneself alongside unprecedented changes. A gender transition reflects an effort to come home to one’s body; to belong within the contours of one’s own body. Balin and Gabriel will highlight the interplay of gender\, sexuality\, and identity inherent in these embodied gestational experiences – that of the analyst giving birth and of the analyst being re-born. \nAbout the Presenters: \nGabriel DeCicco\, LCSW-R is a transgender psychoanalyst who has worked in the field of mental health for 20 years. He has an MSW from NYU School of Social Work and is a graduate of both the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program and the Psychoanalytic Program at ICP. He was a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Langone Medical Center from 2008 to 2015. He is the President of DeCicco Psychotherapy & Consulting\, LLC\, and has a full-time private practice in Manhattan\, where he sees patients both in-person and virtually in the tri-state area. \nBalin Anderson\, LCSW\nA psychoanalyst in private practice in Denver\, Colorado\, Balin Anderson LCSW is a graduate of the ICP’s Psychoanalytic Program. She earned her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis\, Missouri. Balin began her career as a social worker at Planned Parenthood of New York City; she also served as a medical interpreter for Spanish-speaking patients. Balin is a faculty member at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis. \nSandra Silverman\, LCSW\n \nSandra Silverman LCSW is faculty and supervisor at ICP\, NIP\, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies where she is also co-chair of the committee on Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion. Sandra is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is in private practice in New York City and the Hudson Valley. \n  \nFor any questions\, please contact Dominika Mazurová at SICP@icpnyc.org. \nAn important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA). \n———————————————————————- \n\n  \nContinuing Education Information\nNYS Continuing Education Information\n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education credit for licensed social workers. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists.
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/gendered_body/
LOCATION:ICP\, 33 W 60th St.\, 4FL\, New York\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: In-Person Lecture: Enactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst
DESCRIPTION:The event has been sold out\, if you’d like to be placed on the waitlist\, please email SICP@icpnyc.org. \nEnactment: Its Provocation by the Analyst\n \nwith Robert Grossmark\, PhD\nFriday\, October 18th\, 2024 7pm-9pm\nRefreshments and conversation at 9 following the lecture \n  \nApproved for 2 NYS CE Credits!\nThis presentation will address challenges when working with patients whose trauma and neglect are not available for symbolization and mentalization. I suggest that the analytic relationship offers a unique situation that – following Laplanche – provokes enactments in which the unsymbolized and unrepresented can speak in their own idiom. Rather than seeking to understand and get out of enactments\, the analyst can unobtrusively companion the patient in states of fragmentation\, disorganization and non-relatedness and thus make space for early and inchoate trauma to speak. Enactment is thus regarded as an “untelling” of what has been trapped in the “unpast” (Scarfone) of continual painful repetition. When the analyst can companion the patient in the emergence of early\, wordless enactments and psychic spaces\, old and constraining “translations” are transformed\, pain that has never been suffered can finally be known by and with an Other\, and time\, self and relatedness are reconstituted. \n  \nAbout the Presenter: \nRobert Grossmark\, PhD\n \nRobert Grossmark\, Ph.D\, ABPP is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He works with individuals\, groups\, and couples and conducts psychoanalytic supervision and study groups. \nHe is on the teaching and supervising faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis\, the NIP Program in Adult Psychoanalysis\, The National Training Program in Psychoanalysis\, National Faculty Member\, the Florida Psychoanalytic Center and lectures at other psychoanalytic institutes and clinical psychology training programs nationally and internationally. \nHe is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues\, the author of The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and co-editor of The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory\, all published by Routledge. \nFor any questions\, please contact Dominika Mazurová at SICP@icpnyc.org. \nAn important note about CEUs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers\, mental health counselors\, marriage and family therapists\, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state\, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state\, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis\, ie 54321 (CA). \n———————————————————————- \n\n  \nContinuing Education Information\nNYS Continuing Education Information\n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education credit for licensed social workers. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists. \n*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists.
URL:https://icpnyc.org/event/enactment/
LOCATION:ICP\, 33 W 60th St.\, 4FL\, New York\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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