Core 2-2026 Training Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy

with Rebecca Walters, MS, LMHC, LCAT, TEP
Deb Shaddy, MS, LMHP, LCPC, TEP

March 5-10 (Thursday-Tuesday) May 28- June 2 (Thursday-Tuesday) November 4-9 ( Wednesday-Monday)
Snow days if necessary: TBD

All trainings will be conducted IN PERSON at Boughton Place, Highland, NY. If, due to COVID, NYS / CDC recommends against in person meetings, sessions will take place online via Zoom.

Core training is an intensive training experience for professionals and students in the fields of mental health, substance abuse and recovery, creative arts therapies, religion, law, human services, personnel management, nursing and medicine, group facilitation and education. This year-long format creates a community of learners committed to personal and professional growth. It provides a safe place in which to develop spontaneity as a director, auxiliary, protagonist and group member.

Each year special topics such as the use of psychodrama in individual therapy, action methods with children and adolescents, playback theater, anger and fear, spontaneity training, working with resistance, sociodrama, the use of the body and working with trauma may be offered. There will be many opportunities for student directing.

Pre-requisite: 70 hours of previous psychodrama training, including at least one HVPI intensive and/or permission of faculty. 

Contact HVPI for an application.

Registration and Payment

Full Tuition: $3275.

Early Registration Discount: $3145-Save $130 if check and completed contract are postmarked by January 2, 2026. Mail to: HVPI, 156 Bellevue Road, Highland, NY 12528

For payment by credit card (PayPal) or wire transfer please contact us: hvpi@hvpi.net

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This workshop offers 130 training hours towards certification by the American board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.

This training does not offer NBCC CE Hours.