In addition to the standard curriculum, the Psychiatry Residency offers a dedicated psychotherapy track for general psychiatry residents.
Overview
This two-year program offers PGY-3 and PGY-4 trainees an intensive experience for those interested in deepening and broadening their understanding of and technical proficiency in psychotherapy.
The track provides eight hours of weekly, protected psychotherapy time which can include an opportunity for a resident’s own psychotherapy, if interested, as well as multiple supervisory options. Participants gain expertise in cognitive processing therapy, an evidence-based modality for PTSD, and have options to study many other modalities including dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and advanced models of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy salons are offered quarterly in the evenings at faculty members’ homes and provide a relaxed environment to stimulate enhanced learning. Scholarly projects are encouraged and multiple advanced psychotherapy electives are offered in the PGY-4 year.
Track leadership:
Director: Valerie Rosen, M.D.
Associate director: Jessica Thompson, M.D.
Therapeutic Modalities
Track participants can explore supervision options from over 40 full time and affiliate interdisciplinary psychotherapy experts working across a broad range of therapeutic modalities:
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for nightmares
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Dialectical behavioral therapy
- Exposure and response prevention for obsessive compulsive disorder
- Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Logotherapy and existential analysis
- Meaning-centered psychotherapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Pain reprocessing therapy
- Radically open dialectical behavioral therapy