Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Certification Program (APCP)

Pre-requisite:  Graduated from AAP's 3-Year Certificate Program in Anthroposophic Psychology or equivalent from an Anthroposophic Psychotherapy training recognized by IFAPA (International Federation of Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Associations).

How can an anthroposophic understanding of the human being enrich and transform the practice of psychotherapy?

The Association for Anthroposophic Psychology is now offering a certification program in Anthroposophic Psychotherapy beginning in 2023.  The program is designed for licensed clinicians¹ who have already completed AAP's three-year foundation studies in anthroposophic psychology.  One of our goals is to build a community of clinicians working out of anthroposophic psychology.  Together, we can discover how to apply an anthroposophic understanding of the human being in the psychotherapeutic encounter.  

We will explore the phenomenology of human experience including psychological disturbances:  mood disorders, psychosis, addictions, trauma, spiritual crisis, grief, developmental issues and more.  We will enhance our ability to assess and diagnose according to anthroposophic principles. Therapeutic indications and insights will be shared.  We will deepen our understanding of psychotherapy in the age of the consciousness soul and how therapy adapts to the psychological and spiritual development of the client.

We will collaboratively explore the spiritual dimension of client and therapist by considering questions such as:  How can we help our clients better connect with the various levels of their “I”?  How can we as therapists maintain awareness of past, present and future while also recognizing the client’s biographical experience within the timespan of their current life?  How can we ethically explore questions of moon and sun karma? How can we support our clients in their intra-, inter- and transpersonal relationships?  How do attachment, intersubjectivity and subpersonalities inform our work?  How can we develop therapeutic intuition regarding the most helpful interventions for a particular client at a particular moment in time?

Through training in anthroposophic psychotherapy, we strive to develop our identity and confidence as anthroposophic psychotherapists as we bring this new impulse into the world.  We aim to contribute to a growing body of knowledge and lived experience regarding anthroposophic psychotherapy and to join an international movement of professionals. Our program seeks to work directly with relationality as a means of spiritual endeavor.  Collaboration is central.  The faculty of the training program in Anthroposophic Psychotherapy hopes that you will be eager to join us in this quest.

"Anthroposophic medicine is an extension of medicine."
"Psychiatry must be thoroughly transformed through spiritual science."
"Psychotherapy must be founded anew out of the consciousness soul, and must be a spiritual activity, the psychologist's 'anthroposophical task.'"

Rudolf Steiner

¹While the Anthroposophic Psychotherapy program is designed particularly for licensed psychotherapists, we also welcome applications from medical professionals and others who work therapeutically with clients, with the understanding that in these cases full certification as an Anthroposophic Psychotherapist may not be possible.

Year One Online Sessions (Certification Track)

Online sessions will include topics such as: the process of certification in anthroposophic psychotherapy; basics of anthroposophical assessment, case formulation, and case study; Steiner text study; the pedagogical law and the therapeutic relationship; ethics; case consultation and case presentation.

Year Two Online Sessions (Certification Track) 

Online sessions will include topics such as:  principles in art therapy; collaboration with other therapeutic approaches such as eurythmy therapy and anthroposophical nursing; biography work; deepening anthroposophic case conceptualization; practitioner research and spiritual research; Steiner text study; case consultation and case presentation.