Supervisory Training

SUPERVISORY TRAINING PROGRAM (one year) – This year-long Supervisory Training Program is advanced training for psychoanalysts that provides the comprehensive knowledge and experience needed to become a competent and successful supervisor. Graduates of this program receive a certificate in the supervision of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  This program is limited to experienced psychoanalysts with interest in enhancing their ability to do psychoanalytically oriented supervision. 

PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Coren Schwartz, LCSW

ADMISSION

Admission is by application and interviews.

Graduates of psychoanalytic institutes who have completed psychoanalytic training four or more years ago are welcome to apply.

REQUIREMENTS

COURSEWORK: Three courses are offered during the year, one per trimester. Each course meets for 11 weeks on Wednesdays from 12:40 to 2:00 pm, via Zoom.

CLINICAL REQUIREMENT: Supervisors in training are required to supervise a psychoanalytic candidate or a graduate of a psychoanalytic program. WCSPP requires its psychoanalytic candidates to be supervised by an STP candidate for one block of supervision.

SUPERVISION: Candidates in this program will meet with a senior supervisor from WCSPP once a week to supervise the clinical supervision they are doing. Forty hours of supervision is required.

FEES

Tuition: $575 per course per trimester, to be paid prior to the start of each trimester

Administrative fee: $75 per trimester, to be paid at the time of course registration

Individual Supervision: $50 per session

Financial assistance may be available on a need documented basis, and individual payment plans may be arranged with prior approval.

COURSES

FALL

Review of historic and contemporary literature on supervision. Among the topics covered will be transference, countertransference and parallel process as they relate to supervision. Additionally, the use of authority, the dangers of collusion, the supervisor’s and the supervisee’s narcissism and unanticipated negative effects of supervision. Issues related to the supervisor’s accountability to the supervisee and the patient will be discussed. 

WINTER AND SPRING

Intensive exploration of how the supervisor’s own values and identity as an analyst inform the work as a supervisor, i.e., what data is relevant, what is mutative, what theories and techniques are emphasized. Important readings and case material related to these and other challenging issues in supervision will be considered.

Interested applicants should contact Coren Schwartz at 914-449-7100 or Corensz@gmail.com.