Accelerate Healing. Achieve Enduring Change

Attachment-Based Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB-ISTDP) is an active, emotion-focused form of psychodynamic psychotherapy which integrates principles from attachment theory and neuroscience to develop powerful therapeutic techniques. The clinical and cost-effectiveness of this approach is extensively documented, with impressive research outcomes across a broad spectrum of disorders, including depression, anxiety, and somatisation. In this approach, therapeutic benefits endure and improve over long-term follow-up.

This Foundation Skills Course introduces the Attachment-Based ISTDP (AB-ISTDP), which has been developed by Robert J. Neborsky, MD. This approach focuses on using Dr Habib Davanloo’s ISTDP techniques in a collaborative way to work towards attachment security.

Learning outcomes include:

• Theory and Metapsychology of ISTDP
• Attachment theory and AB-ISTDP
• The triangles of conflict and person
• Unconscious anxiety pathways
• Targeted anxiety regulation
• Deepening core emotional experiencing: working with rage, guilt, grief, and attachment longings

Training Format:

This training combines:

• Lecture material
• Clinical case material (presented on video)
• Video-based group supervision of participants’ own clinical cases
• Readings to support the learning process.

Who can benefit from this course?

The course is ideal for clinicians who are new to ISTDP, as well as those who have attended other trainings in ISTDP but are interested in the attachment-based approach. The course is only open to mental health professionals registered with a professional body.

The foundation skills course is an ideal taster programme for those interested in pursuing ongoing supervision or a 3-year-core training in ISTDP.

Course Fee: £950. Payment in instalments is available on request.

Course facilitator: Dr Sharon Lewis