One-Year Insight Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program
A Year of Reflective Learning
Many experienced clinicians reach a point in their careers where they want more than another workshop or CPD event. They are looking for time to think, opportunities to discuss challenging clinical work, and an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the people they work with every day.
The One-Year INSIGHT Program was created for this purpose and is designed for psychologists, general practitioners, and other mental health professionals who want to deepen their understanding of psychotherapy without undertaking a formal registrar pathway.
The one year program offers a year of seminars, reading, clinical discussion, and reflective learning grounded in contemporary psychodynamic practice.
Whether you are seeking fresh ways of understanding your patients, greater confidence in working with complexity, or simply the opportunity to think alongside experienced colleagues, the program provides a supportive learning community for practitioners committed to ongoing professional development.
Who This Program Is For
This program is suited to clinicians who:
Enjoy thinking deeply about psychotherapy and therapeutic relationships
Value discussion, reading, and reflective practice
Are looking for stimulating professional development within a small learning community
Wish to deepen their understanding of psychodynamic psychotherapy, regardless of their primary therapeutic orientation
Participants include psychologists, general practitioners, social workers, psychiatrists, and other experienced mental health practitioners.
A Community of Reflective Practice
Participants explore clinical dilemmas together, engage with contemporary psychodynamic ideas, and develop a shared language for understanding relationships, emotion, and therapeutic process.
What the Year Looks Like
Throughout the year, participants engage in four terms of seminars (8 weeks for each term) comprising reading, case discussion, and reflective dialogue within a carefully integrated curriculum.
The program is designed to provide participants with the opportunity of thinking more deeply about clinical work, linking psychodynamic ideas directly to the therapeutic challenges they encounter in everyday practice and develop a psychodynamic sensibility.
Rather than a series of stand-alone workshops, it offers a sustained year of learning within a community of practitioners committed to reflective clinical practice.
Curriculum
Term 1 — Theoretical Foundations Introduces the historical and philosophical roots of psychodynamic thinking, from Freud through object relations, self psychology, and contemporary field theory.
Term 2 — Assessment and Therapeutic Technique Covers psychodynamic assessment and formulation, the therapeutic frame, and working with transference, countertransference, and resistance.
Term 3 — Brief Psychodynamic Approaches Explores time-limited psychodynamic work using the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method, from assessment through to termination.
Term 4 — Application to Specific Presentations Applies psychodynamic thinking to depression, anxiety, personality vulnerabilities, psychosis, and trauma, closing with each participant's own integration as a therapist.
Reflections from Our Registrars
Continue Developing as a Clinician
CPD hours are the easy part. The harder, more useful part of PD is continuing to refine how you think, listen, and understand the people who seek your help.
There are no assessments, examinations, or endorsement requirements. Participants join simply because they want to continue growing as clinicians.
If you are looking for a year of serious psychodynamic scholarship and genuinely stimulating clinical conversation, we would be delighted to welcome you into the Insight learning community.
Thinking Together
