This program is designed for early-career clinicians and those who want to learn about psychodynamic thinking.

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Describe how the unconscious affects how we act, think and feel, and the evidence of unconscious bias 
• Conceptualize and understand the importance of the frame
  
• Learn how to assess and work with affect, anxiety, defenses and resistance
  
• Understand how trauma can impact development
  
• Learn how to discern and work with transference and countertransference in the therapeutic relationship
  
• Expand understanding of different kinds of endings
  

Enrolled students will be provided with the class schedule and syllabus.

Tuition is $900. Partial scholarships available for demonstrated need.

Mary Eliza (Molly) Reilly MSW, is a co-chair of the Core Concepts of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program at the New Washington School of Psychiatry. Molly is a graduate of the Clinical Program on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.

She works with adults and couples in private practice in Washington, DC. Before becoming a psychotherapist, Molly worked as a trainer and strategist with groups seeking to incorporate gender, rights, participation, and movement-building into social change efforts. She enjoys planning and participating in collaborative learning processes. 

 Jody Tabner Thayer, MSW, JD, is a co-chair of the Core Concepts of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program at the New Washington School of Psychiatry. Jody is a graduate of the Clinical Program on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Supervision Training Programs, and has been on the Core Concepts (formerly Fundamentals of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy) since 2018. She previously served as Executive Director, Clinical Director, and ex officio Board member at a not-for-profit mental health center in Montgomery County.

Our CPPP faculty brings extensive experience in psychotherapy, teaching, and clinical supervision:

Faculty
Gavin Behrens, MSW
Alejandro Berthe, MSW
Charlotte Blutstein, LPC
Rolando Fuentes, MSW
Karen Garman, MSW
Reggie Jones, MSS
Molly Reilly, MSW
Lenore Shapiro, MSW
Danny Silbert, MSW
Jody Tabner Thayer, MSW
Elizabeth Waters, MSW

Guest Faculty
Jon Frederickson, MSW
Jane Nielson, MSW

Applications for the February - May 2027 program will be accepted after September 1, 2026. 

Application deadline is November 10, 2026.

All applicants must pay a non-refundable $100 application fee.

Refunds: 

• A participant who wishes to withdraw from the program must do so in writing by emailing admin@newwsp.org
  and copying the program Chair. 
• The application fee is not refundable under any circumstances.
• Any refund will be subject to an additional $50 administrative fee.
• If the participant withdraws before the start of the program or within the first two weeks after the start date, 100 percent of tuition paid less administrative fee will be refunded.
• If the participant withdraws between two and four weeks after the start date, 50 percent of tuition paid less administrative fee will be refunded.
• If the participant withdraws between four and six weeks after the start date, 25 percent of tuition paid less administrative fee will be refunded.
• No refund will be offered if withdrawal elected after six weeks after the start date.
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Click here for the Accreditation Statement and AMEDCO Continuing Education Certification.

For questions and additional information on the program or individual conferences, please contact: admin@newwsp.org.