ISTDP Supervision

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Looking to improve clinical skills as a Therapist?  

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I held positions in numerous educational environments prior to my transition to the mental health sector in 2008. In my youth, I coached youth sports, taught English abroad in China, and obtained my substitute teacher permit to work with elementary and junior high-aged children.  I served as adjunct faculty at the California State University, Los Angeles School of Social Work from 2016 to 2021, during which time I instructed both undergraduate and graduate-level courses. This role was established several years after my completion of graduate school.  

In 2020-2023, I successfully completed three years of ISTDP Teacher Training ("Training of Trainers") with Jon Frederickson, MSW, and have a passion for teaching and supervising. ​At the present time, I offer ISTDP Pre-Core and Core Training, as well as individual and group supervision.  As the son of two educators, I am particularly intrigued by the pedagogy of psychotherapy supervision and training. I am committed to providing ISTDP training that is transformative, inspiring, and effective..  Over the past 10 years I've given a variety of presentations on ISTDP and Psychotherapy in both clinical and academic settings, and recently presented my framework, "The Triangle of Vitality," at the 2024 International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association's conference in San Diego. 

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Supervisees must have video taped clinical work in order to receive ISTDP supervision.  

ISTDP Supervision can help you:

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• Think clinically vs. reflexively.

• Build Confidence in yourself!

• Improve capacity to co-create an internal, emotionally focused therapy 

• Track and work the Triangle of Conflict 

• Develop and improve Psychodiagnosis 

• Assess and regulate symptoms of Anxiety 

• Improve defense work (identify various resistances)

• Improve capacity to work within the transference

• Increase capacity to invite and work with higher levels of affect

• Work with countertransference

• Learn more about Psychodynamic Principles such as: transference, enactment, unconscious vs. conscious, and conflict