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Clinical · Psychodynamic

Psychodynamic Practice Certificates

Three certificates that share one theoretical spine: unconscious process, relational dynamics and the politics of the clinical encounter, taught for social workers and psychotherapists.

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The Signature Clinical Certificate

Anti-oppressive psychodynamic perspectives for social work practice. 60 hours, advanced level, stands on its own.

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The LGBTQ+ two-part sequence

Part I Clinical Foundations (50 hours), then Part II Advanced Clinical Practice (60 hours). Part II requires Part I or equivalent training.

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  • 170CE hours across three certificates
  • Intermediate to advancedlevel
  • 12 monthsaccess per certificate

Signature Clinical Certificate

Anti-Oppressive Psychodynamic Practice

Signature Clinical Certificate · 60 hours

Certificate in Anti-Oppressive Psychodynamic Perspectives for Social Work Practice

This certificate works at the intersection of anti-oppressive practice and psychodynamic theory. Learners engage contemporary psychoanalytic concepts — attachment, projection, enactment, and the unconscious life of institutions — and examine how each operates under conditions of marginalization rather than in the abstract.

The programme treats the clinical dyad as a site where power, history and positionality are already present. Modules address the diagnostic imagination, internalized oppression, intersectional dynamics, boundary complexity, organizational shadow, embodied knowing, and the politics of clinical practice, closing with case-based synthesis.

Content is grounded in ethical principle throughout and oriented to client outcomes: emotional regulation, identity integration and relational repair.

CE hours
60 hours
Modules
12
Format
Asynchronous, 12-month access
Prerequisite
Foundational social work practice and ethics
Level
Advanced
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  1. Mapping the Terrain
  2. Transference, Power and Positionality
  3. The Diagnostic Imagination
  4. Identity Conflicts and Internalized Oppression
  5. Unconscious Defenses in Marginalized Lives
  6. Intersectional Dynamics in the Therapy Room
  7. Ethics of Holding Complexity
  8. Matrix of Israel–Palestine in the Dyad
  9. Organizational Shadows and Social Work Identity
  10. Somatics, Affect and Embodied Knowing
  11. Politicized Clinical Practice
  12. Integration and Case-Based Synthesis

Two-part sequence

Psychodynamic Practice with LGBTQ+ Clients

Take Part I first. Part II assumes its concepts and builds on them.

Part I · Clinical Foundations · 50 hours

Certificate in Psychodynamic Concepts with LGBTQ+ Clients and Communities: Clinical Foundations

This certificate builds the psychodynamic foundations for clinical work with LGBTQ+ clients and communities. Learners work with the unconscious, transference and countertransference, defences, attachment and mentalization, and use them to formulate rather than to classify.

Identity development, family and generational dynamics, sexuality and intimacy, and the cultural and political context of queer and trans lives are treated as clinical material in their own right. Minority stress, heterosexism, cissexism and racism are formulated as conditions the client is living in, not as distortions to be corrected.

The certificate closes with integration and a capstone case that is deliberately left open.

CE hours
50 hours
Modules
10
Format
Asynchronous, 12-month access
Prerequisite
None
Level
Intermediate
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  1. Orientation and Foundations
  2. Core Psychodynamic Concepts I
  3. Identity and Development
  4. Psychodynamic Concepts II
  5. Clinical Encounters
  6. Cultural and Political Context
  7. Sexuality and Intimacy
  8. Families and Generations
  9. Therapist Self and Countertransference
  10. Integration and Competence

Part II · Advanced Clinical Practice · 60 hours · requires Part I

Certificate in Psychodynamic Concepts with LGBTQ+ Clients and Communities: Advanced Clinical Practice

This advanced certificate extends psychodynamic practice with LGBTQ+ clients into trauma and dissociation, intimacy and fantasy, group and relational work, intersectionality, the therapist's own vulnerabilities, endings, and leadership.

Each module closes with a case integration unit rather than a per-lesson case throughline, requiring learners to hold several strands at once. Where a lesson's material does not fit a case, that is stated rather than forced.

The certificate treats the therapist's position — fatigue, identification, shame, erotic countertransference, disclosure — as clinical material requiring the same rigour as the client's.

CE hours
60 hours
Modules
10
Format
Asynchronous, 12-month access
Prerequisite
Part I or equivalent psychodynamic training
Level
Advanced
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  1. Advanced Orientation
  2. Advanced Psychodynamics
  3. Queer and Trans Specificities
  4. Trauma, Dissociation and Survival
  5. Intimacy, Desire and Fantasy
  6. Group and Relational Practice
  7. Intersectionality in Depth
  8. Therapist Vulnerabilities
  9. Endings and Transitions
  10. Integration and Leadership

Accreditation. Continuing education approval for these programs is being sought. Approval status and approving body will be listed here once confirmed. Certificates of completion record the course title, CE hours and completion date; please confirm acceptance with your own regulatory body.

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