Three
Year
Program

Four
Year
Program

Post
Graduate
Program

The Harlem Family Institute provides low cost high quality psychoanalytic psychotherapy training.

HFI offers three programs for trainees at different career levels.

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Three-Year Program.
• Four-Year Program in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.

  These two programs are designed for trainees who hold at least a master’s degree in a field requiring clinical experience. The four-year program is for clinicians who have graduated from the three-year program and want to continue their psychoanalytic training.

• Post Graduate Two-Year Program in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.

  Designed for psychotherapists who have completed training at an accredited psychoanalytic institute and want specific training in working with children and adolescents.

To learn more about these programs, read on or use the links at left for individual program description.

Course work and workshops are designed to provide a wide-ranging approach to psychodynamic interventions and a comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic thought. Self-reflection, psychotherapy, and supervisory sessions support a candidates personal growth and development as a psychoanalytic practitioner. Some typical training provisions are:

• In all programs trainees learn the essential elements of play therapy, while expanding and deepening their knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and technique. Each therapist-in-training is assigned weekly sessions in a school with an equipped play therapy room.
• An HFI school liaison assists the candidate with referrals and offers on-site assistance for the duration of the training.
• Each trainee agrees to the provision of six clinical sessions per week, seeing children and adolescents, with collateral visits as necessary.

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