Application for 2026 Cohort of ISTDP Core Training

This is a three-year program to become a fully trained practitioner of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Participants engage in 4 three-day weekends of training per year. This is a small group learning cohort of 8 maximum. The training involves lecture, readings, extensive skill building exercises, and group supervision of each participant's video-taped therapy sessions in-person in East Lansing, Michigan.

A three-day optional Pre-Core Training will be held before Core Training begins. While recommended, it is not required.

Led by fully-trained practitioner of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, Leslie Auld, LMSW, ACSW, ISTDP trainer, and Founder of Mindful ISTDP LLC and Therapy Today Counseling and Consulting, LLC

Official schedule to be determined.

This course will be approved for CE credits through NASW-Michigan.
1.Contact Information(Required.)
2.Please describe your past clinical training:(Required.)
3.Please share what prior exposure or training you have received in ISTDP:(Required.)
4.What interests you in pursuing Core Training in ISTDP?(Required.)