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A psychotherapy practice and training institute. The Institute does not provide emergency or crisis services — if you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services..
CLINICAL TRAINING
Training in the
family systems tradition.
The Institute trains clinicians at every stage of formation — from those accumulating supervised hours toward licensure, to licensed practitioners seeking depth beyond technique. Training is not a side activity here. It is the method by which the clinical work stays good.
RESIDENT | POST-GRADUATE SEMINAR | CONSULTATION & SUPERVISION
OUR APPROACH TO TRAINING
The clinician's development is the work
Training at the Institute is not separate from the clinical practice. It is the method by which the clinical work stays good. The same faculty teach, supervise, and treat — within a single shared theoretical frame.
This work is for practitioners who are serious about long-term development, not short-term skill acquisition. We are interested in maturity, steadiness, and the kind of clinical clarity that only comes from sustained engagement with theory, supervised practice, and one's own work.
WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR
Post-master's clinicians seeking supervised hours toward licensure
Licensed clinicians (LMFT, LMHC, LCSW, Psychologists)
Supervisors and clinical educators
Clinicians seeking depth beyond brief-model, symptom-first work
Professionals drawn to systems thinking and relational process
THREE PATHWAYS
Training tracks at the Institute
I. THE RESIDENT PROGRAM
A two-year clinical formation in family systems psychotherapy
For post-master's clinicians accumulating supervised hours toward LMHC, LMFT, or LCSW licensure in Florida.
Residents carry a clinical caseload at the Institute under intensive supervision, participate in weekly case consultation with faculty, and complete a structured didactic curriculum in family systems theory and clinical practice.
The program is selective. Each cohort is small. Residents are paid for direct clinical hours and receive supervision and didactic curriculum at no cost — training that, taken externally, would cost $10,000–$15,000 per year.
We are recruiting now for our next cohort.
II. POST-GRADUATE SEMINAR
Sustained engagement with family systems thinking and its clinical application
For anyone interested, who wants depth beyond technique.
A structured seminar series — multiple cohorts each year — that deepens conceptual grounding and translates it into clinical work without reducing the work to technique.
Family-of-origin process and the development of self
Triangles and chronic relationship patterns
Clinical posture: the work of avoiding rescue, control, and reactivity
Long-term thinking in a short-term clinical culture
The therapist's role in the emotional system of the case
III. CONSULTATION & SUPERVSION
For individual clinicians, supervisory groups, agencies, and clinical teams
Available year-round.
Individual supervision for clinicians at any stage — clinical reasoning, therapist functioning, the ability to remain grounded under pressure. Offered in accordance with Florida licensure requirements where applicable.
Group consultation for clinical teams and agencies — case-based discussion, systems mapping, team process, and the development of shared standards for thoughtful, non-reactive practice.
WHY WE TRAIN HERE
Three things distinguish training at the Institute
The training is practice
The Institute's clinical work and its training are the same activity, conducted by the same people, organized around the same theoretical frame. There is no separation between what is taught and what is done.
The frame is durable
Family systems theory is not a technique that will be displaced by the next clinical fashion. It is a theory of human functioning that has held up for sixty years and continues to develop.
The community continues
Most who train with us stay in conversation with us — through ongoing consultation, alumni gatherings, contributions to writing and teaching, and in some cases through becoming faculty.