Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy

Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy About ICP
ICP is both a training and treatment Institute. Our classes are taught by leaders in the field who have many years of expertise.

Check out workshops and events here: https://linktr.ee/icp.nyc

Founded in 1971, The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) is one of the oldest and largest Psychotherapy Institutes in NYC. We offer training programs for new and experienced clinicians to learn more specialized and advanced forms of treatment. Our graduates’ professional endeavors are greatly enhanced by the training they receive at ICP. ICP offers a full range of psychotherapeutic services including individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. We also work with families and couples. Treatment is provided within our specialized treatment programs that best suit the patients needs. ICP is dedicated to providing advanced and specialized post-graduate clinical training and high quality therapy at low to moderate cost, in a welcoming, inclusive and accessible environment.

Psychoanalysis has long kept the body at arm's length. This lecture brings it to the center. Drawing on four distinct tr...
10/15/2026

Psychoanalysis has long kept the body at arm's length. This lecture brings it to the center. Drawing on four distinct treatments, Abigail Walch, LP, Amy Ragsdale, LCSW, Diana Halperin, LCSW, and Jess Eipper, LCSW, show how analysts can listen to what the body is saying, use their own physical responses and reverie as clinical tools, and help patients turn raw sensation into meaning.

Wrestling with the Body: When Somatic Preoccupation Serves as an Escape
🌿 2 NYS CE Credits
⏰ Friday, November 13, 2026
7:00 to 9:00 PM EST
✨ In person at ICP, with refreshments and conversation to follow

Not streamed or recorded.

Registration is open now: https://icpnyc.org/event/sicp-eipper-walch/

Eating disorder training rarely accounts for how gender and sexuality shape the treatment experience. This two-part work...
10/15/2026

Eating disorder training rarely accounts for how gender and sexuality shape the treatment experience. This two-part workshop addresses that gap, examining the particular considerations involved in treating q***r and trans people with eating disorders. Participants will develop gender-informed, affirming, and unbiased approaches to care.

This workshop is designed for clinicians, dietitians, therapists, and other professionals who work with eating disorder populations.

Cate is a licensed mental health counselor in private practice in NYC who specializes in Q***r identity, eating disorders, and relational therapy. A graduate of the two-year CSAB program, Cate integrates eating disorder treatment, Q***r theory, and Q***r culture to foster body acceptance and promote healing. They are dedicated to working with trans clients through an affirming lens of eating disorder awareness and empowering care.

⏰ November 13th and 20th, 2026
12:30 to 2:00 PM EST
📍 Live on Zoom
🌿 3 CE credits (full attendance required for NYS CE credit)

Register at 👉 http://icpnyc.org/event/psychiatry-in-eating-disorder-care-integration-collaboration-and-treatment/

Effective eating disorder treatment depends on psychiatric expertise integrated across the clinical team, yet many treat...
10/14/2026

Effective eating disorder treatment depends on psychiatric expertise integrated across the clinical team, yet many treatment providers report fragmented collaboration between psychiatry and other disciplines. Shervin Shadianloo, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAP, joins us to address this critical gap with an evidence-informed workshop on psychiatric assessment, consultation, and coordination within multidisciplinary care 🌿

In this 90-minute clinical seminar, you will gain competency in psychiatric assessment frameworks for eating disorder patients, develop nuanced understanding of psychopharmacology's documented benefits and limitations, and learn clinical protocols for managing comorbid psychiatric conditions. The workshop emphasizes the consultant role psychiatrists play in supporting treatment planning and enhancing clinical coordination across your team.

Designed for therapists, psychiatrists, dietitians, clinical social workers, and treatment coordinators working with eating disorder populations.

Dr. Shadianloo is a double board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Medical Director of BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Hofstra/Northwell.

👉 Register now to join his workshop: https://icpnyc.org/event/psychiatry-in-eating-disorder-care-integration-collaboration-and-treatment/

⏰ Tuesday, November 10th | 12-1:30pm (Zoom)

🚀 Workshop for 1.5 NYS CE Credits

Financial barriers to attendance: contact [email protected]

Some books change how you sit with a client.The ICP Trauma Book Group is back for its third year, led by Rose Latino.Eac...
10/13/2026

Some books change how you sit with a client.

The ICP Trauma Book Group is back for its third year, led by Rose Latino.

Each month, a group of therapists gathers on Zoom to read closely, think clinically, and talk honestly about trauma with people who understand the work.

This year's reading list:
📖 Nov 16 & Dec 14: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
📖 Jan 11 & Feb 8: Denial: A Memoir of Terror by Jessica Stern
📖 Mar 8 & Apr 5: The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
📖 May 3 & June 7: Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart

What you get:
✔️ 2 CE credits per two-session group
✔️ An optional companion clinical article with each reading
✔️ The chance to co-lead a discussion with Rose (co-leaders attend free)
✔️ A collegial space for therapists at every stage of practice

$30 per two-session group. Register for two or more and take 15% off.

Groups are capped at 10 attendees, so the room stays small enough to actually talk.

Questions? [email protected]

Register at: https://icpnyc.org/event/trauma-book-group-3/

Tracy K. Ross, LCSW and Judith Aronowitz, RN, LCSW lead this advanced clinical workshop which focuses on therapeutic int...
10/13/2026

Tracy K. Ross, LCSW and Judith Aronowitz, RN, LCSW lead this advanced clinical workshop which focuses on therapeutic intervention with families experiencing estrangement, emotional cutoff, and significant relational rupture. The workshop moves from understanding family cutoff to the clinical work of assessing readiness for repair, identifying conditions that make reconnection possible, and intervening with family members whose experiences and narratives may differ substantially.

Key Workshop Learnings
✨Use Bowen Family Systems theory to accurately spot the difference between protective relational distance and emotional cutoff.
✨To identify clinical indicators that suggest a family is ready to begin repair or reconnection work
✨Recognize multigenerational patterns, alliances, and relational injuries that may contribute to the development and maintenance of family estrangement
✨Formulate realistic treatment goals that distinguish repair from reconciliation and allow for multiple possible outcomes.

🎓 Earn 2 NYS CE credits

📍Virtual on Zoom and In-Person at ICP (33 West 60th Street, NYC)

📅 Friday, October 30th, 2026, 2pm - 4pm EDT

👉 Register via the link in our bio or at: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/factsprograminformationsessions/event/familycutoffs2/

How can psychoanalytic clinicians engage the generative potentials of eroticism while navigating the intensity, ambiguit...
10/12/2026

How can psychoanalytic clinicians engage the generative potentials of eroticism while navigating the intensity, ambiguity, and anxiety that accompany such experiences?

🌿 Sarah Schoen, Ph.D., joins SICP to ask what becomes possible when clinicians stay with erotic dynamics instead of moving past them. Dr. Schoen explores how erotic material can carry both defensive and progressive meanings, with the aim of expanding clinicians’ capacities to invite, tolerate, and think about erotic dynamics in the analytic relationship. Drawing on contemporary relational and developmental perspectives, Dr. Schoen will present a detailed clinical account illustrating sexuality’s dense entanglement with basic issues of vitality and coming alive. Her argument: the unstable intersections both patient and analyst tend to avoid are exactly where questions of being and becoming emerge.

⏰ Friday, October 23rd, 7:00 to 9:00 PM EDT, in person at ICP Earn 2 NYS CE credits

This session will not be streamed or recorded.

✨ Register at the link in our bio or at: https://icpnyc.org/event/sicp-sarah-schoen/

October 10th was World Mental Health Day.This year's theme, Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change, speaks to...
10/12/2026

October 10th was World Mental Health Day.

This year's theme, Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change, speaks to something we see every day at ICP: being heard is often where healing begins.

For decades, our clinicians have made room for every kind of story. The ones never said out loud. The ones still being figured out. The ones that feel too small to matter, and the ones that feel too big to carry.

Mental health extends beyond a single day. So does our commitment to it.

When you are ready to share yours, we are here.

Link in bio or at: http://icpnyc.org/treatment/treatment-request/

💛 You don’t have to go through this alone.Living with an eating disorder or supporting someone who is can feel isolating...
10/09/2026

💛 You don’t have to go through this alone.

Living with an eating disorder or supporting someone who is can feel isolating, confusing, and overwhelming. At The Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia (CSAB), we believe recovery is not a solo journey… it’s one that grows through connection, understanding, and compassionate support.

CSAB offers free, confidential online support groups for individuals experiencing disordered eating and for loved ones who want guidance and community. These groups are open, welcoming, and accessible to anyone seeking support.

✨ Pursuing Recovery Support Group
For individuals living with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive exercise, or body image concerns

🗓 Every Wednesday
⏰ 7:00–8:00 PM EST
💻 Zoom | No registration required

✨ Friends & Family Support Group
For loved ones supporting someone with an eating disorder
🗓 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month
⏰ 6:00–7:00 PM EST
💻 Zoom | No registration required

🌱 Why join a CSAB support group?
• Connect with people who truly understand
• Learn practical tools and recovery-focused strategies
• Reduce isolation and build hope
• Groups led by professionals trained in eating disorder treatment
• Join from anywhere — all sessions are online

📩 Questions?
Contact Emily Rosenthal at [email protected] or 917-803-1880
Or email [email protected]
Recovery looks different for everyone… but support makes it possible. You are welcome here.

Effective eating disorder treatment depends on psychiatric expertise integrated across the clinical team, yet many treat...
10/08/2026

Effective eating disorder treatment depends on psychiatric expertise integrated across the clinical team, yet many treatment providers report fragmented collaboration between psychiatry and other disciplines. Shervin Shadianloo, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAP, joins us to address this critical gap with an evidence-informed workshop on psychiatric assessment, consultation, and coordination within multidisciplinary care 🌿

In this 90-minute clinical seminar, you will gain competency in psychiatric assessment frameworks for eating disorder patients, develop nuanced understanding of psychopharmacology's documented benefits and limitations, and learn clinical protocols for managing comorbid psychiatric conditions. The workshop emphasizes the consultant role psychiatrists play in supporting treatment planning and enhancing clinical coordination across your team.

Designed for therapists, psychiatrists, dietitians, clinical social workers, and treatment coordinators working with eating disorder populations.

Dr. Shadianloo is a double board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Medical Director of BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Hofstra/Northwell.

👉 Register now to join his workshop: https://icpnyc.org/event/psychiatry-in-eating-disorder-care-integration-collaboration-and-treatment/

⏰ Tuesday, November 10th | 12-1:30pm (Zoom)

🚀 Workshop for 1.5 NYS CE Credits

Financial barriers to attendance: contact [email protected]

LAST CHANCE - WE ARE ALMOST AT CAPACITY ‼️ Join us on Thursday, November 5th, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, as we celebrate the ...
10/07/2026

LAST CHANCE - WE ARE ALMOST AT CAPACITY ‼️ Join us on Thursday, November 5th, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, as we celebrate the release of Johanna Dobrich's new book: Moving from Grievance to Hope in Psychoanalysis - Applied Case Studies

This volume brings psychoanalytic thinking and practice directly into the social forces that shape our lives, covering: intergenerational trauma, cultural difference, divisive ideologies, environmental degradation, and entrenched social hierarchies.

Johanna Dobrich, LCSW-R will read a few brief excerpts, followed by reflections from contributors Alex Beznes, LCSW, Nina Cerfolio, MD, Karen Hopenwasser, MD, Tracy Sidesinger, PsyD, and Ruth Wyatt, LCSW-R, on their chapters, and then open the evening to Q&A and discussion. Discussions will be followed by w**e, lite bites, and time to connect ✨

RSVP: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/icpevents/event/booklaunch/

A limited number of signed copies of the book will be available for purchase.

🌿 Johanna Dobrich, LCSW-R, is a psychoanalyst, author, and educator based in New York City. She has been engaged in psychoanalytic education and training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), the New York Institute for Psychoanalysis (NIP), and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC), teaching, supervising candidates, and contributing to curriculum and educational programming. At ICP, she serves in an advisory role to the Board.

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