July 29th - August 26th 2026For psychology students, graduates, and practitioners.
Integrative Psychotherapy aims to help clients integrate distinct parts of their personality, relinquish defence mechanisms and avoidance strategies, learn to regulate and let go inhibitory emotions, and get in touch with vulnerable suppressed emotions. Additionally, it focuses on processing clients' unresolved past and trauma, enabling them to form and sustain healing relationships, and becoming more fully themselves.
In a series of five lessons, you will learn a system of Integrative Psychotherapy Frameworks combining psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, experiential, systemic, and trauma-focused approaches — complex theories are presented in comprehensive practical models and richly illustrated by detailed slides, stimulating case material and insightful therapy transcripts.
Thomas van Sonsbeek is an Integrative Psychotherapy practitioner with more than ten years of experience in clinical practice in Amsterdam, specialising in personality disorders. He teaches clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and has extensive experience supervising colleagues in individual and group settings.
Wednesdays 18:30–21:30 CET · Amsterdam (Science Park) or Zoom. - Can't attend a lesson? Digital recordings available for playback
Wednesday 29 July · 18:30–21:30 CET
"Our unresolved past shapes who we are, and how we feel about ourselves, others and the world."
Most psychological problems are related to our relationships with our parents and siblings, and painful or traumatic life experiences. In this first lesson, you will learn how family dynamics and past experiences shape our personality and symptoms, and specific techniques to help clients work through their unresolved and traumatic past.
Wednesday 5 August · 18:30–21:30 CET
"In essence, psychotherapy is about our feelings; what meaning we give to them and how we deal with them."
This lesson will focus on all the different emotions, their functions, how they can lead to symptoms and how to respond to them effectively in psychotherapy. We often have emotions about emotions. We may feel guilty about our anger, ashamed about our sadness and afraid of love. You will learn how to help clients work through their conflicting emotions and problematic defence mechanisms.
Wednesday 12 August · 18:30–21:30 CET
"Every relationship carries the potential to be either toxic or healing, leading to happiness or suffering."
This lesson will focus on the therapeutic relationship — its three dimensions and how to adjust them by client. Balancing empathy and confrontation, acceptance and change. Plus conflicts in romantic relationships and couples therapy techniques.
Wednesday 19 August · 18:30–21:30 CET
"Our personalities are layered. What we identify with may only be the surface layer of who we really are."
Psychological problems come in many forms. This lesson offers a framework organising psychological disorders and symptoms into five underlying mechanisms that can cause many different disorders — and how to adjust your treatment depending on the client's personality.
Wednesday 26 August · 18:30–21:30 CET
"Change happens naturally when the impediments to it have disappeared."
This final lesson will explore the three phases of psychotherapy and how your techniques must be different depending on the phase that the client is in. We will also focus on the five mechanisms that lead to change, and many different kinds of interventions used by cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic-experiential and trauma-focused approaches.
Full Package:
€145Try one evening
Pick which lessons interest you most
€525vs €725 separately
All five lessons + incl. handouts
€21060% off full package
Recent graduates
may apply
In-person places are limited — register now to secure your spot.
Practitioners with their own client base are invited to join for an additional four-week supervision track to dive even deeper into the framework. Intimate supervision groups (4 to 6) meet weekly for four weeks, guided by experienced Integrative Therapists. Bring your most challenging cases to learn to apply Integrative Frameworks and theories, and develop a new way of doing therapy. Deepen your understanding of the core principles of psychotherapy to bring your work to a deeper level and grow confident with even the most difficult clients.
Four 2h supervision groups + 1-on-1 mentoring session + 4 extra intervision groups (optional) — €380, max 12 applicants.
Confirm participation by July 1st to get 5% off your full package.
Therapy schools often contradict each other, like blind men describing parts of the same elephant. Integrative Psychotherapy connects those schools and helps clients integrate conflicting parts of themselves. We invite you to watch the interview above to learn more.
Either. Join at Science Park, Amsterdam or live via Zoom, Wednesdays 18:30–21:30 CET. If you need to miss a session live, let us know with sufficient notice — you can then access the recording for playback for 6 days after each lesson.
The student rate (€210, 60% off) is for current students and recent graduates (within one year of graduating or applying for a master's). Confirm your status when you register.
Five practical handouts — one for each Integrative Framework — with comprehensive models to revisit, study, and practice in your work. Physical or digital.
As a CRKBO-registered training institution, we can offer our education VAT-free (0% BTW) where applicable under Dutch law. For professionals and self-employed practitioners, the workshop fee can typically be registered as a business expense — check with your accountant for your specific situation.
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