EVENTS

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2026 SUMMER INSTITUTE

ONLINE MINI-COURSES & WORKSHOPS

CONTACT HOURS/CEUs APPROVED

All workshops and mini-courses are EDT

The New York State Education Department has approved these online workshops and mini-courses for contact hours (CEUs) for LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LPs, LMFTs, and Licensed Psychologists. A certificate will be emailed to those who sign in at the beginning of the session, stay until the end of the session, complete an emailed evaluation. The evaluation form will be emailed to you within a week of the event and usually much more quickly. Full session must be attended to be eligible for CEUs/contact hours. 

PLEASE USE REGISTRATION FORM AT BOTTOM OF PAGE

Confirmation and Zoom meeting link will be emailed upon registration and payment where due.

PROTECTING THERAPEUTIC DEPTH: REFLECTIVE CAPACITY IN THE FACE OF RACIAL AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
Instructor: Kim Arrington, Psy.D.
This workshop examines the therapist’s internal functioning in the presence of clinically and culturally charged material. While therapeutic depth is often assumed, it may narrow when difference evokes psychological activation that is not recognized or metabolized. Participants will explore subtle forms of internal retreat, defensive certainty, and the impact of these processes on treatment. Through didactic instruction, structured reflection, case-based discussion, and guided practice, participants will develop increased capacity to sustain psychological presence during difficult or activating clinical moments. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening reflective pause skills, differentiating defensive reactions from reflective processing, and protecting the conditions under which patients can feel seen, accompanied, and understood.

KIM ARRINGTON, Psy.D. Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Harlem Family Institute. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child & Adolescent Program. Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program and Child & Adolescent Program. Member, Board of Trustees, and Program Committee: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Clinical Psychologist: Hackensack University Medical Center. Assistant Professor: Hackensack Medical School. Member: American Psychological Association, Division 39.

TUESDAYS, AUGUST 4, 11, 18, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
6 Contact Hours
FEE: $150

PREPARING FOR THE NEW YORK LP EXAM: 
A FOCUSED, STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH TO PASSING WITH CONFIDENCE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2026
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
PRESENTER: BRIAN KLOPPENBERG, LP, MFA

This workshop will teach participants a number of skills: It will help in writing case narratives for the New York State LP exam, prepare for the actual writing of each narrative at the testing site, and navigate the testing situation itself. We will begin with a close examination of the various sections of the LP exam, question by question, in order to build case narratives that eventuate in passing the exam. Each case narrative should have its own internal logic, and we will talk about how to find and develop that logic. Having helped a number of candidates from several different institutes to pass the exam, I have a strong sense of what the readers of the case narratives are looking for, as well as some common mistakes that can be avoided without too much trouble. Participants are welcome to submit some of their sample answers ahead of time and we can work on these during the workshop. Helpful advice will be offered for what to do next once the narrative has been written, both in the days leading up to the exam and when at the testing site. This interactive workshop will allow plenty of time for questions and answers with the participants.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
1) understand more effective ways to think about the format of the New York State LP exam.
2) begin to construct a case narrative according to an internal psychoanalytic logic.
3) identify various mistakes that are best avoided in order to obtain optimal results on the exam.
4) identify various test-taking strategies both for the days leading up to the exam and while writing up the narrative at a testing site.

PRESENTER: BRIAN KLOPPENBERG, LP, MFA Certificate in Psychoanalysis, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Board Member, Training and Supervising Analyst: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Former Director: Theodore Reik Clinical Center for Psychotherapy.

LOCATION: ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM

FEE: $100 or $75 for students (with proof of student status)
NO FEE FOR MCMH STAFF THERAPISTS

Registration deadline: September 17, 2026

Confirmation and Zoom meeting link will be emailed upon registration and payment where due.

SEEKING ASYLUM – TWICE AS LIKELY
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2026     
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
PRESENTER: SUSAN McNAMARA, MD

Freud fled from Vienna to London in 1938, terrified after the Gestapo picked up his daughter, Anna. It was not easy to get the Freuds the necessary immigration permits from the British government and even more difficult to extricate the Freuds from Nazi Vienna. Ernest Jones applied pressure through diplomatic channels and the Nazis needed to be bribed. Psychoanalysts from Austria and Germany fled to Britain, Switzerland, the United States, and Argentina, essentially anywhere they could gain entry, many times leaving behind family members who would be murdered in the camps. Over and over, we see people fleeing their countries for safety and struggling to gain legal status and avoid deportation to a certain death. We will discuss the psychodynamics of immigration, the physical and psychological trauma of those who emigrate, and the practicalities of how one might help new immigrants by providing objective assessments and essential documentation supporting legal claims for asylum, T Visas, and other forms of humanitarian relief and protection in the United States. 

Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
1) understand the historical and psychological context of immigration.
2) investigate how trauma affects the cognitive, emotional, and physical health of people who are immigrants.
3) learn the critical role of health professionals in rigorously documenting human right abuses in immigration cases.

PRESENTER: SUSAN McNAMARA, MD Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Managing Editor: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Review of Books, and editor of the “Dancing While Queer” issue published by Psychoanalytic Inquiry, November 2025. Dr. McNamara is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has been working for the past 20 years with those seeking political asylum by providing free psychiatric evaluations to document evidence of torture and abuse for people fleeing persecution in their home countries, and providing affidavits for use in US Immigration Court by their attorneys, as well as providing court testimony.

LOCATION: ONLINE on ZOOM

FEE: $60 or $40 for students (with proof of student status)
NO FEE FOR MCMH STAFF THERAPISTS

Confirmation and Zoom meeting link will be emailed upon registration and payment where due.

 Registration deadline: October 16, 2026

The New York State Education Department has approved this online workshop for 2 contact hours (CEUs) for LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LPs, LMFTs and Licensed Psychologists. A certificate will be emailed to those who sign in at the beginning of the session, stay until the end of the session, and complete an emailed evaluation. The evaluation form will be emailed to you within a week of the event and usually much more quickly. Full session must be attended to be eligible for CEUs/Contact hours.

PAYMENT OPTIONS ARE LISTED BELOW REGISTRATION FORM

REGISTRATION FORM

PAYMENT OPTIONS

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Refund Policy

If you find you are unable to attend an event for any reason, you must notify MITPP by email at least 48 hours prior to the time the course/workshop begins in order to receive a full refund. No refunds will be issued after that time.