EGPS Training Program in Group Psychotherapy
Deep, practical, experiential learning about group leadership.
Graduates from 2019-20, Michelle Wan Lok Chan and Laura Captari, express through spoken word and dance what their Training Program Group Experience meant to them.
Having gone through the EGPS Training Program, it not only provides me a body of knowledge and tools in my work, but the experience also has given me a sense of community and belonging, a psychoanalytic home.
– Supavadee Thaveesaengsiri
The EGPS Training Program received an award for educational and training excellence from The National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists. In our 32 years of training in the New York metropolitan area, we have provided training for approximately 450 mental health professionals who have gone on to apply for certification as group psychotherapists. You can be one of them.
WHO CAN BENEFIT?
- Anyone in an agency, hospital, mental health, or college counseling center who is expected to run groups but has little formal training in group work.
- Anyone in private practice or other organizational settings who wants to expand their expertise to conducting groups.
- Anyone wishing to learn the psychodynamic theory and practice of group psychotherapy which provide the foundation for leading varied specialized, short, or long-term groups.
THE PROGRAM
- Extends from September through June, divided into ten-week trimesters
- Conducted on Wednesday evenings from 5:30 – 10:00 PM
- Contains the following 3 modules each week:
Group Consultation: Meets weekly, Time and Day TBD
An essential aspect of the program is consultation, that focuses on the groups you conduct. Students are expected to begin conducting a therapy group, certainly by the second trimester. Each student is responsible for obtaining her/his/their own group to lead.
Group Theory: 7:15-8:15 pm
This seminar integrates the principles and applications of psychodynamic group psychotherapy. Course content includes both agency and private practice issues regarding: patients referred/selected, pre-group preparation, the role of the leader, group boundaries, racial dynamics and othering of marginalized subgroups, transference and countertransference, therapeutic techniques, group process vs. content, group dynamics, termination and various theoretical perspectives.
Group Experience: 8:30-10:00 pm
Students participate in a training group experience in which they learn the basics of group leadership and group dynamics through their direct experience.
LOCATION
The 2025-2026 Program will be held on Zoom.
ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION
Open to all who hold a minimum of a Master’s Degree in a mental health profession.
The EGPS Training Program in Group Psychotherapy is committed to diversity, inclusion, and racial equity. We encourage mental health professionals of all races, backgrounds, and nationalities to apply. As we continuously define what it means to become an anti-racist program, we are intentional about developing our curriculum, expanding our bibliography, and educating ourselves to develop greater racial attunement and intersectional sensitivity throughout the program. As a work in progress, the faculty are committed to being challenged by students with realities that need to be addressed. Over the years, we have revised the program based on student feedback. Join us in the collaborative experience of growing together as we strive to deliver ever more sensitive and clinically informed group psychotherapy.
Our rolling admissions allows us to admit applicants throughout the year, though applications for the 2025-26 class are due on August 1, 2025. Complete and submit the application form, your resume, and processing fee. Upon receipt and review of your application, you will be contacted for a mandatory interview.
TUITION
Our tuition model reinforces the idea that everyone who participates in the training program agrees to be working together toward a goal of anti-racist/anti-oppressive action and collective liberation. Our responsibility for the integrity of the program and for maintaining our alignment with its mission and vision supports a tuition model consistent with a commitment to reparations for Black and Indigenous people. Racial equity is woven into both the educational content and into the financial model.
Full Tuition: $5900
Reparations Rate and Need Based Scholarships Available
For more information about the program and tuition, contact Ashley Leeds or Claire Julian.
To apply to the program click here
Please contact EGPS Administrator, Jan Vadell to receive the Scholarship Application.
Faculty
| Claudia Arlo, LCSW, CGP, CASAC
Adi Avivi, PsyD, CGP Simon Bresler, LCSW, CGP Carlos Canales CGP, FAGPA, SEP Angelo Ciliberti, Psy.D, LPC, LAC, CGP Bonnie Cushing, LCSW Robin Dean, PsyD, MSed Fabiola Desmont, LMSW Adam Frankel, Ph.D, CGP Robin Good, PhD, CGP, FAGPA |
Joe Hovey, LCSW, CGP
Kathleen Isaac, PhD, CGP Mineko Anne Legendy, PhD Ronnie Levine, PhD, CGP, ABPP, AGPA-F Tabethah Mack, PhD, CGP Juan Olmedo, LCSW, CGP Aziza Belcher Platt, PhD, MSEd Tamara Turner, LCSW Judith White, LCSW (Advanced Training Sequel) Joan Wittig, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT |
For more information about the program, please contact a Co-Dean of Admissions highlighted below:
| Virginia Seewaldt, PhD
Joan Wittig, BC-DMT |
Co-Directors | (212) 769-2251 |
| Ed Elder, M.Div, LMHC, LMFT | Dean of Faculty | |
| Charles Zeng, LMFT, LPCC, CGP, MA | Dean of Curriculum | |
| Claire Julian | Co-Deans of Admissions | (917) 900-2083 |
| Lisette Soini, LCSW, LCAT | Dean of Trainees | |
| Latoyia Griffin, LCSW, CGP, AGPA-F | Racial Dynamics Consultant |
