In 2023, I created the Finley Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Fellowship (FPPF; formerly the Nurse Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Fellowship) because colleagues consistently asked me to after expressing a vast need and desire to learn how to help their patients other than using medication and manualized (third-wave) therapies. As a provider with a full-time psychoanalytic psychotherapy private practice, I know that with the proper training, you can learn how to incorporate psychotherapy ideas, techniques, and practices to transform how you help others. Additionally, this way of working allows providers to get off the 15-minute medication management treadmill and enjoy a contemplative, relaxed, rich, deep, heartfelt, and thriving professional lifestyle and practice. This program can also prepare those who want to continue after the fellowship to apply to psychoanalytic training and be better prepared for an immersive psychoanalytic experience.

Who is this Fellowship for?

• Actively licensed Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNP), Physician Assistants (PA), Physicians (MD/DO), and Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW) in the United States of America OR actively enrolled PMHNP, PA, MD/DO. or LCSW graduate students. If you have another mental health licensure or are a graduate student in a mental health program with licensure not listed here, please do apply, but know that continuing education credit acceptance is not guaranteed.

• Practitioners who want to do more than prescribe medications.

• Individuals who are passionate and curious about the human mind and soul.

• Those wanting a supportive community of other practitioners (or students) who are interested in holistic mental health care and psychotherapy.

• Must have your own active individual malpractice insurance policy.

• Please note, exceptions in the past have been made for practitioners practicing outside the USA, international students, and for other mental health provider licensure, so please inquire if you would like to apply but do not meet listed criteria.

This year-long fellowship is designed to provide life-changing ideas that will help you deepen your work with patients right away and also provide a comprehensive foundation for any future psychoanalytic and/or psychotherapy training you embark on your journey. You will also learn a lot about yourself as well. The following topics are covered (please don’t be alarmed if you do not know what these ideas/terms mean yet- you will learn):

• Building empathy, authenticity, and therapeutic alliance with patients

• Enhancing the ability to listen deeply

• Psychoanalytic conceptualizations of grieving, depression, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, addiction, attention issues, anger, dissociation, autism, obsessions/compulsions, and psychosis.

• Treatment Frame, Boundary Crossings & Violations

• Transference/Countertransference

• Infant Research

• Attachment Theory

• Sado-masochism

• Childhood Trauma in the Adult Patient

• Developmental Stages

• Conscious & Unconscious Models of Mind

• Object Relations

• Neuropsychoanalysis (based on the work of Mark Solms)

• Dreamwork

• Case Studies

• Logistics of providing psychotherapy- time, feasibility, fees/billing, scheduling, etc.

• 1:1 30-minute meeting with Brooke every semester

Licensed Provider Program Logistics:

Fee: $2,150

Cohort Size: 8-10 persons

Format: Virtual/Zoom

Dates: Meeting for 90 minutes weekly from Sept. to May (34 meetings total). Scheduling is determined by group availability. Holiday breaks included.

Anticipated Workload: Weekly meetings for 90 minutes focusing on one reading each week (plus occasional supplementary content, like videos) with a related discussion and case material presented. Please allow for at least 3-4 hours collectively each week for readings and meetings.

Continuing Education: 51 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ACCME credit hours have been awarded for this program.

Graduate Student Program Logistics:

Fee: $550

Cohort Size: 8-12 persons

Format: Virtual/Zoom

Start Dates: Sept. to May with monthly meetings of 90 minutes scheduled around group availability. Holiday breaks included.

Anticipated Workload: The student cohort will meet monthly at a mutually determined time for 90 minutes. There will be one reading each month and a related discussion and case material presented. Please allow at least 3-4 hours each month.

Continuing Education: 13.5 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ACCME credit hours have been awarded for this program.

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Applications for FPPF 2025/2026 year are open on a rolling basis!

If interested in joining the graduate student or licensed provider fellowship, please complete the brief application below. Please note that applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and the last day to submit an application for the 2025/2026 cohort is June 1st, 2025. Upon review of your application, I will contact you promptly for a 30-minute interview and request documentation of your active, unencumbered license to practice, professional malpractice insurance, and resume/CV. All applicants will know the status of their applications by June 15th, 2025, if not sooner. If you have any questions pertaining to the fellowship, please write to fellowship@finleypsych.com. Thank you, and I look forward to our psychotherapy journey together. Please note that this program is run within Finley Consultation LLC and is not considered personal or group psychotherapy treatment.

AACME/AMA Accreditation & Disclosure Statement:

Activity Description

Each live, online weekly session is 90 minutes in length and is comprised of an initial didactic lecture summarizing the main points of the assigned psychoanalytic reading and followed by an engaging seminar discussion as a class to discuss finer points and applied ideas from the readings to current practice to facilitate understanding and pragmatic application to case formulation and understanding.

Learning Objectives

1.Learners will describe the importance of building therapeutic alliance with patients and using transference and countertransference to deepen work and aid in understanding how to use these tenets of psychoanalytic practice to understand and repair pathological interpersonal challenges with patients.

2. Learners will explain how specific developmental impairments, attachment challenges, and failure of maturational achievement from the stages of infancy to adolescence can appear as deficits and conflicts in the adult patient.

3. Learners will list the evidence basis for psychoanalytic work, including modern psychoanalytic meta-analyses and neuropsychoanalysis.

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of up to 51 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ depending on attendance and participation. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.