The applicant should have had experience of at least the same extent and frequency of personal psychotherapy as that which they intend to offer to their patients. Supervised training cases should be for at least two years for one and one year for the other. Some experience of assessment and of an institutional setting would be an advantage. Clinical seminars to include their own presentations of their clinical work during the clinical phase of the training. Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Accreditation as a psychodynamic psychotherapist requires similar training to that for accreditation as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist - especially in the understanding of the role of the unconscious in mental life.
All training is post-graduate in level, requiring a first degree or equivalent.
Personal Therapy must have been with an approved training therapist at a frequency not usually less than once a week, and should start one year before the training course commences and continue throughout the course. In the absence of a formal training course an equivalent experience of personal psychoanalytical psychotherapy will be required for accreditation. Clinical work under supervision with an approved psychotherapist will include a mixture of short and medium term cases and must include at least one case treated at least once weekly for a minimum of two years. This long case should be individually supervised. Other cases may be supervised by a variety of methods.