Two masterclasses · 5 CE credits available
The two-course bundle
Nancy McWilliams on understanding who a person is. Andrew Tatarsky on helping with patterns they can’t easily start or stop. Take the courses together and save.
Psychodynamic Diagnosis & First Sessions
Nancy McWilliams on personality beyond symptoms — and the early interviews that shape everything that follows.
Nancy McWilliams · 1.5 CE
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Harm Reduction Psychotherapy for Addiction
Andrew Tatarsky on working with substance use and compulsions inside ordinary psychotherapy.
Andrew Tatarsky · 3.5 CE
Two-Course Bundle
- Both masterclasses in full — every module of each course
- Immediate access · self-paced · no deadline
- Taught by the clinicians who wrote the books
2 full courses · 5 CE available · self-paced · access doesn’t expire
Full price $399 · Save $54
Need CE credits? The 5-CE version is $375 — enroll with CE → (save $55).
Why they belong together
If you came for the addiction course
Addiction work can’t come from a manual.
How you work with one person’s drinking may be very different from how you work with another’s. McWilliams’s course provides a foundation for Tatarsky’s: a working grasp of personality and level of functioning, so you can decide — person by person — how to approach the substance use in front of you.
If you came for the diagnosis course
Every caseload includes compulsion and inhibition.
Many patients struggle with things they can’t get themselves to start or stop — not only substances, but phones, pornography, and avoidance. Tatarsky’s course offers a step-by-step way to build a change plan with them, fitted to the personality McWilliams teaches you to see.
Tatarsky’s model integrates psychoanalysis with mindfulness and behavioral science. That is the tradition McWilliams has spent a career teaching. One course teaches you to read a person; the other teaches what that reading asks of you when the person is using.
Taught by the people who wrote the books.
Nancy McWilliams
PhD, ABPP · Diagnosis
- Visiting Professor Emerita of applied psychology at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, and former president of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association
- Author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Psychoanalytic Case Formulation and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy — translated into twenty languages and assigned across clinical and social work training programs
- Has taught thousands of clinicians in thirty countries; commencement speaker at Yale School of Medicine and at Smith College School for Social Work
- Excerpts from this masterclass have been watched more than 1.5 million times online
Andrew Tatarsky
PhD · Addiction
- Wrote Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems, and developed Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy
- Founder and Director of The Harm Reduction Therapy Training Center; previously founded and directed The Center for Optimal Living
- Senior Advisor at Silver Hill New York, and a member of the Medical and Clinical Advisory Panels for the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports
- Has trained thousands of clinicians and program staff worldwide, across three decades spent challenging abstinence-only care
Watch a preview of each
Nancy McWilliams
Andrew Tatarsky
What’s in each masterclass
Full courses, not excerpts — real clinical dialogue, taught in the instructors’ own voices.
Masterclass one · 1.5 CE
Psychodynamic Diagnosis & First Sessions
Nancy McWilliams on understanding personality beyond symptoms — and on the early interviews that shape everything that follows.
- Personality types and the themes that organize a person
- Healthy, neurotic, borderline and psychotic levels of organization
- Using the first sessions to build the alliance and orient treatment
Masterclass two · 3.5 CE
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy for Addiction
Andrew Tatarsky on treating substance use inside ordinary psychotherapy — gradual, realistic, individualized to each client.
- Twelve filmed modules with real clinical dialogue and roundtable discussion
- Working with ambivalence, mixed goals and gradual change
- Assessing risk collaboratively without losing the client
What clinicians say
“As a therapist and instructor myself, I got SO much out of this and will rewatch. Thank you, Dr. McWilliams, for such cogent and engaging analysis of people and of your own process as a therapist.”
Dr. Chris Duquette, Therapist and Adjunct Professor, Golden Gate University“This training will breathe fresh air into the way clinicians and program staff typically think about working with clients who struggle with substance use.”
Stephanie Briody, Co-Founder & CEO, Behavioral Health Innovators — Chatham, MAChoose how you’re enrolling
Both masterclasses are included either way, with four enrollment options depending on who is taking them.
Individual · no CE
Standard
$345
$399 bought separately — save $54. Both courses in full, immediate access, no deadline.
Individual · 5 CE credits
With CE
$375
$430 bought separately — save $55. Certificates emailed through our accredited partner.
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