Start of the Spring Trimester
The Spring Trimester begins. The complete list of dates can be found on the Academic Calendar in the Member Portal.
The Winter Trimester begins.The complete list of dates can be found on the Academic Calendar in the Member Portal.
The Fall Trimester begins. The complete list of dates can be found on the Academic Calendar in the Member Portal.
Join us as we celebrate this year’s graduates and honoree at a beautiful and festive dinner in Westchester. All members are invited.
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We invite all WCSPP members to come meet the incoming candidates.
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Mental health professionals, meet our Admissions Directors who will answer any questions you have about our programs, the application process, and the experience of our community. Join us at our final admissions event of the season!
Just a few spots remaining for the 2026-2027 academic year in:
Our Child, Adolescent, Parent Psychotherapy program weaves together the study of individual child & adolescent, and parent development through understanding the impact of psychological histories, relational patterns, intergenerational effects, and changing social contexts and constructs. Training is based on a psychodynamic, relational orientation to change, integrating parent guidance and advice as needed.
We welcome all mental health practitioners, whether your work is exclusive to children & adolescents, primarily serves adults or some combination. We never forget that there is, after all, a child’s history within each adult and the challenge of growing within every child, adult, and parent.
Our Couples Therapy Training Program is a one-year program which teaches both basic and advanced couples therapy techniques and theory with a combination of psychoanalytic and systems perspectives. Candidates are introduced to several different theoretical approaches including object relations and relational theory, self psychology, Bowenian theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with emphasis on the clinical work with couples. We also discuss issues pertaining to LGBTQ relationships, divorce, cross cultural relationships, and substance abuse. In addition to the didactic instruction, weekly supervision is provided by senior faculty for cases seen through our Psychotherapy Service.
The Couples Therapy Training Program provides a solid introduction to couples work and provides an opportunity to join the warm, supportive community at our institute, build your referral network, and be exposed to the many and varied learning opportunities provided at WCSPP.
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Save the date for WCSPP’s Annual Conference! More details to follow
Mental health professionals, join us to meet our program directors and ask questions of current candidates, graduates, and faculty.
Learn about our extensive training opportunities for Fall 2026 in: Child, Adolescent, Parent Psychotherapy
Our program weaves together the study of individual child & adolescent, and parent development through understanding the impact of psychological histories, relational patterns, intergenerational effects, and changing social contexts and constructs. Training is based on a psychodynamic, relational orientation to change, integrating parent guidance and advice as needed.
We welcome all mental health practitioners, whether your work is exclusive to children & adolescents, primarily serves adults or some combination. We never forget that there is, after all, a child’s history within each adult and the challenge of growing within every child, adult, and parent.
Who is eligible and should apply?
Applicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals:
MD, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, NP, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC, LMFT and LP
Financial assistance is available for those who qualify.
CE hours available for some coursework for eligible NYS LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, LMHC,LCAT, LP and NYS Psychologists and CT Social Workers through NASW CT.
Timeline:
Rolling admissions with decisions made by July 30, 2026
Program begins September 2026
We will continue to be on Zoom for the 2026-2027 year.
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2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
The Academic Events Committee Presents A Wrinkle In Time
A Series that will Consider both the Psychic Challenges and Opportunities for Generativity and Transformation in Later Stages of Life
Presenter: Carol Seaholm-Volow, MS.Ed
Discussant: Wade B. Anderson, PhD
Live on Zoom!
Carol Seaholm-Volow will explore the topic of finding peace and meaning at the end of life. Doulas provide companionship and support for clients, and their families, who have begun their end of life journey together. The doing of life is done while the meaning making and life review continue. This end of life period provides rich opportunities for self-realization, acceptance and the possibility that love might triumph over fear, presenting as integrity vs. despair. The role of a doula is one of an active and present listener above all else.
Carol Seaholm-Volow, MS.Ed. After retiring from her professional life of forty years in the fields of design, and museum and public education, her journey to find purpose and meaning brought her to the exploration of end of life service. This is work that integrates all that has come before. Currently, Volow joyfully volunteers as an end of life doula, as a member of an interdisciplinary team, with Hudson Valley Hospice in Ulster County.
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2 CE Hours available for
NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
CT Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LMFTs, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists
**HYBRID EVENT**
In-Person at the Scarsdale Public Library or Live on Zoom!
Currently, a number of books have been written, such as Ken Corbett’s, Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities; Jonathan Haidt’s, The Anxious Generation; and Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men, addressing the social, psychological, and mental health challenges faced by male youth and youth in general. A major benefit of these works is that they are available to the public as well as to professional audiences. In addition, unlike a considerable number of their predecessors, efforts are made to address the different plight of Black youth or boys.
This presentation is an attempt to request psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic therapists to examine systemic racism and its unacknowledged effects upon the developing psyches of Black youth. It is particularly advantageous to consider the following: transgenerational trauma as a legacy from slavery, our educational and apartheid institutional arrangements of living, and the impediments to cross racial therapeutic engagement.
Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A Fellow-training and supervising analyst on the faculty of IPTAR, he is also faculty and founder of the Adelphi Derner/ Hempstead Child Clinic and Supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Program of the Derner Postgraduate Program and faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is also the Honorary Institute Dean of the Harlem Family Institute. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at over 125 conferences and panel discussions on issues pertaining to white racism, generational trauma among African Americans, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of Color, and is a subject of the documentary, Your Mum and Dad. He Is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and was a member of the Holmes Commission. In addition, he is a recipient of the 2024 Founder Award of SPPP (Div. 39) APA.
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