The program is structured around a mixed format of delivery with a half-day 3.0 hour live in-person group workshop, 3 x 1.5-hour skills-focused webinars in which 1 hour is devoted to small group practicing; and a closed classroom case-based, interactive asynchronous self-directed online curriculum.
Half-Day Live In-Person Workshop:
Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Healing Through Relationships
Saturday, October 25, 2025 (9:00 am – 12:00 pm ET)
Location: 500 University Avenue, 6th floor, Toronto, ON, M5G 1V7
The workshop introduces IPT’s evidentiary base, and presents its rationale and theoretical base with comparison to other therapy models. The content will present an overview of therapeutic guidelines for each treatment phase.
The format includes simulations and small group practicing of beginning phase clinical skills including the interpersonal inventory and clinical case formulation principles.
At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:
- Use the Brief IPT Checklist/Practice Reminder
- Provide psychoeducation, conduct an interpersonal inventory & illness timeline, to
- Formulate cases to choose a focus for the middle phase tasks of IPT, and
- List the therapeutic tasks of IPT’s middle phase for treatment of depression in the contexts of Role Transitions, Role Disputes and Grief
Skills Teaching Live Webinar 1:
Middle Phase IPT Clinical Guidelines
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 (Online; 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ET)
This live, closed classroom webinar focuses on skills teaching for the middle phase tasks of IPT for Role Transitions and helping patients with communication skills and to connect with social supports.
Learners are to complete the following case based and interactive e-modules in advance of Webinar 1:
- E-Modules #2 – 6 that review the IPT Model & Therapeutic Foundations (Module 2), beginning phase tasks (Module 3), pan-focal middle phase tasks such as communication analysis (Module 4), and the IPT focal areas of Grief and Role Transitions (Modules 5 – 6).
Skills Teaching Live Webinar 2:
IPT Middle-Phase Clinical Guidelines (Continued)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 (Online; 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ET)
This live, closed classroom webinar prepares learners to understand and help patients through use of the IPT middle-phase clinical guidelines for role disputes and interpersonal sensitivity or loneliness with use of mentalizing. There will be opportunity for small group skills practicing with feedback and discussion of the IPT middle-phase tasks.
Learners are to complete the following case based and interactive e-modules in advance of Webinar 2:
- E-Modules on the IPT clinical guidelines for the IPT middle phase therapeutic strategies used in the focal areas of Role Disputes (Module 7) and Interpersonal Sensitivity (Module 8). Video-taped, captioned demonstrations illustrate principles in practice with interactive learning activities.
These segments of the online program provide clinical guidelines with case studies to understand and help patients explore and cope with the impacts of relational conflicts or role disputes, and interpersonal sensitivities or loneliness with video-taped, captioned demonstrations and interactive learning activities.
Skills Teaching Live Webinar 3:
IPT Termination-Phase Clinical Guidelines
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 (Online; 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ET)
This live, closed classroom webinar prepares learners to understand and help patients through the conclusion and IPT termination phase with review of criteria and therapeutic guidelines for concluding a course of IPT and consolidate therapeutic gains for a “good goodbye.” There will be opportunity for small group skills practicing with feedback and discussion of the IPT termination-phase tasks.
Learners are to complete the following case based and interactive e-modules in advance of Webinar 3:
- E-Modules on the IPT clinical guidelines for strategies used in the IPT termination phase (Module 9). Video-taped, captioned demonstrations illustrate principles in practice with interactive learning activities.