IMAGO CLINICAL TRAINING

Imago Relationships North America specifies that after completing the ICT, participants will be able to:

• Discuss childhood stages of development and wounding as well as  resulting characterological adaptations in primary relationships.
• Discuss the concept of Imago and the role it plays in partner selection and subsequent stages of adult relationships.
• Work with a couple’s resistance, flow with it and keep volatile couples in dialogue.
• Demonstrate dialogical skills to assist couples in restructuring  conflict and frustration, resolving adult and childhood rage, bringing  them into a healing relationship, and guiding them from unconscious to  conscious relating (moving them from reactivity to intentionality).
• Demonstrate skills to assist couples in increasing validation and empathy and achieve a deeper level of commitment and intimacy.
• Focus on their own personal characterological growth and thus be  more able to deepen client’s affect, getting them in touch with  childhood pain, and thus helping them find healing in the adult intimate  relationship.
• Empower couples to continue the work of healing after therapy is terminated.

The following is a breakdown of each expense associated with becoming a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist:
  
$3,000 - 96 hours of Level 1 - Training
$600 - six monthly consultations for Level 2 - Supervision ($100 each)
$799 - attend a GTLYW Workshop

$195 - final video submission/evaluation 

$120 - 96 total Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) *
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$4,000 - Total Bundled Price **
 

* - CEUs may be available through R. Cassidy. Please check with your state licensing board before purchasing.

** - $750 deposit to reserve your spot, then either pay in full, or with a payment plan of $1,083.33 due prior to each of the three training Modules.

These requirements are NOT needed to begin Level 1 - Training. You will need to document their completion by the time you finish Level 2 - Supervision in order to receive your Imago Certification. 

1. An earned graduate degree in the mental health field (e.g., MA or MS in Counseling or Psychology, MSW in Social Work, M.Div. in Pastoral Counseling, PhD in Clinical Psychology, MD in Psychiatry, etc.). 
2. Proof of registration and license to practice as a mental health professional in your country and/or state/province.
3. Proof of current mental health professional malpractice insurance.
4. Active membership in a national professional organization (e.g., NASW, AAMFT, APA, AMA, etc.).
5. Two letters of recommendation from professional colleagues who know you well and your work. 

To become a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist, the Imago International Training Institute (IITI) requires trainees to complete the following training and supervision program requirements:

• Complete all sessions of the Level 1 - Clinical Training (Modules 1-3).
• Participate in a 16-20-hour couple’s workshop (Getting the Love You Want™) or a workshop for individuals (Keeping the Love You Find™).
• Complete six hours of Imago Supervision over a period of six months.
• Submit 3 and 6 month reports to your clinical instructor.
• Assist at a Getting The Love You Want weekend workshop.
• Demonstrate your skills in a video recording of your work with a couple that meets the requirements for an Imago Dialogue.
• Complete a signed copy of the certification agreement.

Reports
At three months, the participants should  write a one or two-page typed report of their experiences both in their  personal lives and in their clinical practice and submit it to their  Clinical Instructor. This report can be written before the evaluative  video is passed. It is important that this report is not a glowing  report of how wonderful everything is. It is to be a report of your  growing edge and what you are personally and professionally working on  to become a better clinician.

At six months, the participant should write a second one or two-page  typed report of their development both in their personal lives and in  their clinical practice and submit it to their Clinical Instructor.

These two reports should be about the trainee’s growth edge both  personally and professionally to encourage the theory and practice of  Imago Therapy to become more integrated in the trainee’s life and  practice.

Assisting at a Workshop
After completion of the 12 Days of training, the participant should serve as a support therapist  in a Getting the Love You Want Couples Workshop conducted by a Certified  Workshop Presenter®. The trainee must meet with the presenter after the  workshop for feedback and receive a positive evaluation from the  presenter, which must then be submitted directly to the Professional  Training Coordinator with a copy sent to the course instructor.

Video Evaluation

• Record a video of a clinical session involving the Imago Dialogue  and self-evaluate it using the current scoring sheet. Be sure that this  video achieves a pass mark of 70%.
• Ask your Clinical Instructor, or whoever is providing your 6 months  of supervision consultation to review this video as part of their  consultation service to you, and to provide a note indicating that they  agree that the video is at a 70% or above level.
• Send the video, your evaluation and the note from consultant to the trainer together with the fee of $195.
• Your trainer will either provide clear, detailed written feedback to  you, or may contact you for a telephone consultation of your video.  This consultation will focus on reviewing and providing feedback of your  self-assessment.
• Provided that the trainer agrees that you pass at 70% or above,  he/she/they will notify the Imago International Training Institute to  issue a Certificate, as long as all other training requirements have  been met.
• If the video is not passed, we recommend that you review the  feedback from the evaluator with your consultant/supervisor. Once  integrating the feedback, your Clinical Instructor or consultant will  support you to submit a second video. If desired, you may request a  different evaluator for the second video.
• Please do not be disheartened if your first submitted video does not  pass. We have a culture of learning whereby it is fine to be asked for  another video. We want you to receive the best training possible from  us, and requiring a certain degree of proficiency in the model takes  considerable time to achieve.

Review Process
In the event that the video is not  considered by the Assessor to be a passing video, the Assessor will  contact the trainee’s Clinical Instructor.

The CI will watch the video. If they agree that it is not a passing  video, the Assessor will let the trainee know, and will proceed to give  feedback to them. They will email the CI to let them know when this is  done.

If the Clinical Instructor thinks it is a passing video, then the  trainee will have the option to send it to another faculty member. This  will be done anonymously. The Central office will send the DVD to  another faculty member. That view will be binding.

 Once certified, you may engage in the following:

• Represent yourself as a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist; 
• Advertise that you practice Imago Relationship Therapy; and 
• Present Imago related content at conferences and various meetings up to four hours in length and may demonstrate in public the Intentional Dialogue and the Flooding Exercise.