Testimonials

Twenty years into my career as a psychiatrist, I had the great fortune to encounter Patricia Coughlin and ISTDP. She inspired me to embark on a journey to learn how to become a much more effective psychotherapist. She has been an extraordinary teacher, supervisor, and mentor. She has an amazing ability to reveal and clarify unconscious processes and to explain how to use this knowledge for the patient's well-being. Being in her core training group for three years was an intense and challenging experience which proved transformative. Her warmth, compassion, and deep commitment to my professional and personal growth have been profound. She is, quite simply, in a class by herself.
- David M Wolff

I regard Patricia Coughlin the single best teacher and practitioner in her field on the international scene. Most of my work is inspired by her wonderful dialectic of the open heart and the precision of science.She has been my most important teacher and guide, personally and professionally. She is hardworking and sincere in everything she does. Yet she bleshes everyone with her good humour and wit. I have only had good experiences with her for four years where I have had the good fortune of being her student and trainee, and she has become my friend. Ask me to whom would I send my loved ones for psychotherapeutic help or education and her name will be the first on the list.
- Torben Palmer Hansen, Clinical Psychologist Private Practice, Denmark.

Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D. is a riveting, charismatic and brilliant teacher of IS-TDP. She has an exceptional ability to articulate highly complex concepts with great clarity and has shepherded many clinicians towards becoming skilled IS-TDP practitioners. Her work with her patients is deeply moving, given her level of psycho-biological attunement, compassion and skill. The profound transformational effect she has on her patients is readily apparent. I consider it one of my greatest professional gifts to have had the opportunity to train with her as she is a true master clinician and teacher. Her books carry her stamp of excellence as well.
- Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW

Training with Dr. Patricia Coughlin has been a life transforming experience. Her unswerving commitment to the learning process of each trainee creates an environment that is both safe and challenging, allowing her students to reach deeply held goals for learning and personal growth. In the often emotionally intense process of ISTDP training, her steadfast and dedicated teaching and supervision anchors the learning process within a wealth of clinical experience and theoretical expertise.
- Tor Wennerberg, Clinical Psychologist and author

Quite simply, Dr. Coughlin is the best teacher and supervisor of psychodynamics I have ever come across.
- Dr. Steven Sandler

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Dr. Coughlin has relocated to New Mexico to collaborate with colleagues in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Two new core groups for licensed mental health professionals will begin in 2012 in Sante Fe and Albuquerque. Those interested should contact Dr. Coughlin 

Dr. Coughlin will also be seeing patients in Sante Fe beginning in September, 2012. For treatment, those interested should contact me via email or by phone at 518-859-3960

Training Groups 2012

Training groups are forming in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, to begin in early 2013. Contact Dr. Coughlin if you are are interested. Groups are filling fast!