SF-PPTP CLINICAL CONSULTATION
Weekly individual clinical consultation with experienced clinicians is fundamental to the SF-PPTP training experience. Each trainee completes at least 18 months of clinical consultation, with a minimum of two clinical consultants, each dedicated to one case only. This in-depth clinical consultation focuses on individual growth by fostering each trainee’s unique skills and working through the specific challenges encountered in each case. All clinical consultation focuses on work with patients who are attending psychotherapy at least once per week, and at least six months of clinical consultation are focused on a patient attending twice per week or more.
SF-PPTP’s list of clinical consultants includes clinicians throughout the Bay Area, Peninsula, and the Sacramento and Davis areas. Clinical consultation fees are separate from tuition and are determined on a case-by-case basis according to our sliding scale guidelines (the suggested clinical consultation fee is 50% of what the patient is paying per session, within a range of $50-$125 per clinical consultation session).
Clinical consultation sessions are scheduled at a date, time, and place (virtual or in the clinical consultant’s office) agreed upon by the clinical consultation pair.
SF-PPTP clinical consultation is not intended to provide caseload oversight, but is focused solely on furthering each trainee’s education as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Clinical consultation is a required component of the SF-PPTP program, and students enrolled in SF-PPTP must be working in a clinical setting where they can see adult patients in open-ended psychotherapy at a frequency of one to two times per week. Foundations students have the option to participate in the clinical consultation component of training and are encouraged to do so; however, clinical consultation is not required for Foundations students.