Applied Psychodynamic Therapy: Across Presentations, Settings, and Modalities

Psychodynamic therapy can be adapted across presentations, settings, and modalities. This applied course teaches that adaptation through case-based modules with structured planning templates. By the end of this course you will be able to adapt psychodynamic approaches to common presentations, plan short-term psychodynamic treatments, work with complex relational presentations, and integrate psychodynamic thinking with other modalities as appropriate. What you will learn: - Adapting psychodynamic approaches for clients with depression and anxiety - Short-term psychodynamic therapy structures including focus and time-limited frames - Working with personality-related patterns including narcissistic, borderline, and dependent presentations within scope - Integration of psychodynamic thinking with other modalities within an integrative practice - Group therapy applications of psychodynamic principles - Handling treatment frame including missed sessions, fee considerations, and end of treatment - Sustained supervision and self-reflection practices in long-term psychodynamic work The course is structured around case-based applied modules. Each module presents a clinical scenario, walks through structured reasoning, and produces a written approach you compare against the worked-through example. This course is written for mental health clinicians and trainees deepening psychodynamic practice. It does not replace supervised clinical training, licensure requirements, or specialty psychoanalytic training. By the end you will have structured frameworks for applying psychodynamic thinking across the range of presentations and settings.