Professional Trainings
Hosted by ISTDP Ontario: ISTDP, Efficient Capacity Building and Access to the Unconscious. One-day workshop with Dr. Allan Abbass
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/istdp-efficient-capacity-building-and-access-to-the-unconscious-tickets-1304908970859
Join us for an immersive one-day workshop on Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) led by Dr. Allan Abbass, a global psychotherapy expert and graduate of the University of Toronto Psychiatry program. Learn how ISTDP, an evidence-based approach, helps improve clinician efficacy, client psychological capacity, and can improve treatment outcomes.
Why ISTDP? ISTDP is one of the most researched forms of psychodynamic therapy, backed by over 70 randomized controlled trials and more than 100 additional clinical and qualitative research publications. Developed in Canada and internationally recognized, ISTDP has demonstrated success in treating a wide range of conditions, including:
Personality disorders
Somatic symptom disorders
Substance dependence
Treatment-resistant depression
ISTDP is also widely used to build capacity in patients with severe mental disorders. With over 30 studies showcasing its effectiveness, ISTDP has been proven to reduce healthcare utilization and lower disability costs, making it one of the most cost-efficient approaches in psychotherapy today.
What to Expect: This workshop will provide an in-depth exploration of ISTDP’s theoretical foundations, metapsychology, psychodiagnostic assessment, and treatment procedures. Dr. Abbass will illustrate key concepts with real clinical examples through extensive video recordings of actual treatment sessions and facilitate case discussions to deepen your understanding of the approach.
Who Should Attend? This workshop is ideal for psychotherapists of all disciplines, including:
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Social workers
Family physician therapists
Registered psychotherapists
Full-time mental health students
Please note that all attendees must be either regulated/licensed health professionals or students enrolled in an accredited mental health program.
Investment The workshop fee includes a comprehensive handout and is structured as follows:
$250 for registered health professionals
$150 for full-time mental health students
Registration: Please arrive well before 9:00 am. Registration begins at 8:30 am.
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/istdp-efficient-capacity-building-and-access-to-the-unconscious-tickets-1304908970859
Dr. Allan Abbass, MD
Dr. Allan Abbass is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Dalhousie University and the founding director of the Centre for Emotions and Health. He is a leading expert in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), has authored over 300 publications, and he has provided more than 400 presentations worldwide. His research focuses on the role of emotions in mental and physical health, and he consults globally on psychotherapy training and healthcare cost reduction. Dr. Abbass has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Douglas Utting Prize and UCLA’s Distinguished Professor title for his engaging and practical teaching style.
IEDTA 2024 International Conference
The Most Anticipated Conference for Experiential Dynamic Therapists
IEDTA’s 2024 conference features the world’s foremost instructors on Experiential Dynamic Therapy. Held in beautiful San Diego, California, our 11th international conference highlights the power of the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy. Methods for awakening conscious and unconscious therapeutic alliance are woven throughout many presentations. Take home skills to build a strong collaboration with your most challenging clients.CONFERENCE THEME: Activating the Therapeutic Alliance Across the EDTs
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: J. Christopher Muran - The wicked and the wonderful: Negotiating alliance ruptures as a critical change process
Dr. Karen Dinsmore, our DPPC Co-Director, will be one of EDT therapists from all over the world who will be presenting at the IEDTA.
For more information about the conference visit:
Introduction to Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, working with repression and fragility
Please visit the link below to see more details and to register for this workshop:
https://www.istdpontario.ca/events/istdp-workshop-repression-fragility
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Introduction to ISTDP, working with resistance
ISTDP is a practical and evidence-based therapeutic approach that targets deep-seated emotional conflicts and maladaptive patterns of behaviours contributing to various presentations, including depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and chronic pain and other psychosomatic problems within a relatively brief timeframe.
ISTDP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Davanloo and his colleagues to help patients with treatment-resistant and psychoneurotic problems who present with resistant and avoidant patterns resulting from emotional conflicts and disruptions in early attachment. Later, ISTDP evolved to address fragile character structure in those with a low capacity to tolerate complex emotions and associated anxiety due to early complex attachment disruption.
In this full-day workshop, we aim to introduce ISTDP to registered clinicians, mental health practitioners and students. We will review ISTDP metapsychology, its unique features and common interventions and attempt to demystify dynamic therapy.
We will focus on patients with character resistance and psychoneurotic disorders and will discuss various approaches to effectively empower our patients to identify and overcome resistance within the therapeutic setting. Various video case presentations of treatment sessions will be reviewed to demonstrate the concepts presented. There will be time for questions and answers and to reflect on how we can incorporate learned concepts into our clinical work to aid treatment effectiveness.
Presenters: Dr. Karen Dinsmore, C.Psych., and Dr. Behnia Haghiri, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Karen Dinsmore is a clinical and counselling psychologist and co-founder of Dynamic Psychotherapy & Psychology Centre. She is adjunct faculty at the Queen’s University Department of Psychology and a board member of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association. Clinically, she works with adults in individual and group therapy. She specializes in ISTDP and she is passionate about training clinicians and students in ISTDP and psychodynamic therapy. She began her training in ISTDP in 2017. She completed a 3 year core training, advanced training, and individual training with Dr. Allan Abbass and Dr. Joel Town, as well as a year of advanced training with Jon Frederickson. She continues to receive regular training from Dr. Abbass.
Dr. Behnia Haghiri is a psychiatrist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Queen’s University. He graduated from Queen’s psychiatry residency program in 2013 and has worked in various psychiatric settings and with diverse populations. He started learning ISTDP in 2017 by attending courses and receiving supervision from Dr. Allan Abbass and recently, supervision from Dr. Jonathan Entis. Currently, he practices in an outpatient hospital-based clinic at Hotel Dieu Hospital, mainly working with patients referred from the emergency room and post-secondary students, amongst other general referrals. He is passionate about learning ways to incorporate ISTDP in outpatient settings and teaching and supervising residents and other clinicians.
Location: Robert Sutherland Hall 202 is on the Queen’s University campus, located on Union Street between the Law Building and Tindall Field.
Food and beverages: A mini continental breakfast will be served at the start of the workshop. Refreshments will be served in the afternoon.
Parking: Permit parking is available at the underground parking garage on Union Street under Tindall Field and the surface lot. There are 3 accessible meter spots on Alfred Street at Union Street.
For more information about the facilities and accessibility features, please visit: https://www.queensu.ca/facilities/accessibility/building-directory/robert-sutherland
Eventbrite Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-istdp-working-with-resistance-tickets-847754655997
Cancellation policy: Eventbrite’s service fees are not refundable. Refunds will not be available if cancellation occurs 2 week or less before the date of the workshop.
Presentation: Introduction to ISTDP with video case review for clinical staff at Queen's University Student Wellness Centre
Presenters: Dr. Karen Dinsmore, C.Psych., and Ryan Dinsmore, M.Ed., RP