Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Functional Somatic Symptoms: A 2-Day Immersion
Co-chaired by Joel Town, DClinPsy
This two-day immersion training, led by Dr. Joel Town, is designed for clinicians seeking a practical and clinically rigorous review of the Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) model for working with functional somatic symptoms. Through a combination of didactic teaching, extensive review of treatment video, and discussion of live clinical process, participants will learn the core framework…
and interventions that define the model. Dr. Town will show cases that involve the treatment of functional gastrointestinal symptoms, functional neurological symptoms, and chronic pain. On Day 1, this will include a focus on how to restructure syntonic defensive patterns of emotional avoidance and detachment, and the process of emotional mobilization to unlock the unconscious. On Day 2, Dr. Town will present the graded format of ISTDP for building anxiety tolerance, allowing increasing awareness and capacity to experience previously avoided feelings.
ISTDP is one of the most active, emotionally focused, and experientially powerful psychodynamic treatments in contemporary psychotherapy. Developed through decades of video-recorded clinical research by Dr. Habib Davanloo, ISTDP offers a systematic framework for helping patients overcome resistance, access complex emotional experience, and resolve longstanding psychological suffering.
ISTDP has been studied in over 50 published studies for FSD and shown to be an effective treatment in randomized controlled trials and naturalistic clinical settings. ISTDP, informed by attachment theory, targets unprocessed emotions associated with early life relational trauma, dysregulated unconscious anxiety and maladaptive defences. By promoting the experiencing and expression of complex emotional states related to attachment experiences, the psychophysiological pathways producing somatic symptoms can be restructured. Randomized trials of ISTDP report large effects in the treatment of FSD.
Recording access
Target Audience
This activity is designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychoanalysts, counselors, and advanced trainees. This workshop offers a clinically rich introduction to one of the most sophisticated experiential psychodynamic therapies practiced today. All levels of experience are welcome.
Format
Hybrid Event
Speakers
Featured speakers
Joel Town, DClinPsy
Clinical Psychologist, Dalhousie University
Dr. Joel Town is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University, and faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. He holds positions as the Clinical Lead for the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Medically Unexplained Symptoms Clinic, Associate Director of Training for the Nova Scotia Health Psychology Residency Program, and the Clinical Director of Dynamic Health Psychological Services.
He is a clinician, researcher and psychotherapy trainer, with expertise in ISTDP for complex and refractory populations. He is the author of over 50 peer reviewed journal articles on psychotherapy process and outcome research. This includes as the Primary Investigator on clinical trials of ISTDP for depression and somatic symptom disorder. He currently serves as a Consulting Editor of the American Psychological Association Division 29 journal, Psychotherapy and the Society for Psychotherapy Research journal, Psychotherapy Research.
Agenda
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Day 1: Application of the ISTDP Treatment Model for avoidant and resistant clients with FSD
Joel Town, DClinPsy
SessionAll levels of experience are welcome.4.5 CE
8:03 AM – 4:00 PM
Day 2: Application of the Graded Format of ISTDP for FSD clients with limited anxiety tolerance
Joel Town, DClinPsy
SessionAll levels of experience are welcome.4.5 CE
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Venue & getting there
Silver Hill New York
515 Madison Avenue, 13th Floor · New York, NY, 10022
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CE Info
9
Maximum CE credit hours
Across 2 sessions over 2 days.
In support of improving patient care, CE Learning Systems is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
In support of improving patient care, CE Learning Systems is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
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CE Learning Systems, LLC (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #0060.
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CE Learning Systems, LLC (d/b/a impactce.com) 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. #MHC-0072.
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