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Cultivating Therapeutic Expertise Through Collaborative Learning
The International Institute for Psychotherapy training provides mental health practitioners with a unique opportunity to join a global community. This initiative builds on Misso Psychology's 25-year legacy of excellence in psychological training and clinical services. By participating in our programs, you will connect with leading practitioners and researchers from around the world, gaining direct access to innovative therapeutic approaches. Join a supportive environment of like-minded professionals where you can enhance your clinical expertise, share knowledge, and contribute to the advancement of therapeutic practices. Our training programs integrate current research with practical clinical applications, helping you achieve improved outcomes for your clients based on insights from both local and international experts.
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Course Descriptions
Explore our diverse learning opportunities to enhance your practice and meet CPD requirements
Brief Psychodynamic Therapy: Working in Depth Within Time Limits
INSIGHT Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training: Term 3
When: July 24 to September 11, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (AEST)
Where: Online
Join Professor Duncan Cartwright and Adjunct Professor Robert Schweitzer for an 8-week online training program designed for clinical and counselling psychologists and registrars. This small-group, experiential course provides an opportunity to explore how psychodynamic principles can be effectively applied within time-limited therapy. Through case discussions and applied exercises, participants may deepen their capacity to notice and work with relational patterns, therapeutic enactments, and shifting self-states, all while attending to therapeutic depth within brief formats.
Professor Duncan Cartwright, Ph.D., is a lecturer and supervisor in Clinical Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, where he coordinates the Masters in Clinical and Counselling Psychology. He teaches brief psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches, serves on the editorial board of Psycho-Analytic Psychotherapy in South Africa, and has published widely. He is the author of Murdering Minds (2002) and Containing States of Mind (2010).
Adjunct Professor Robert Schweitzer, Ph.D., is a clinician, researcher, and supervisor with extensive publications in psychotherapy. He established the Clinical Psychology program at QUT, notable for its integration of psychodynamic theory and practice. He now focuses on clinical teaching and professional supervision, with a particular emphasis on psychodynamic approaches.
2025 MERIT Free Live Webinars
Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) is a form of integrative individual psychotherapy that supports people's recovery by helping them make sense of their experiences and discover a sense of personal agency and self-determination.
The MERIT clinician assesses the person's metacognitive capacity and offers interventions that help in improving metacognitive capacity.
We wish to invite practitioners working in the field of mental health to join us for a monthly group discussion, during which we will invite eminent clinicians who work from a MERIT framework, to share their learnings and expertise in promoting recovery in people with serious mental illness.
These webinars are sponsored by Richmond Fellowship Queensland
and are available to mental health and medical practitioners.
MERIT Webinars
Date: 7 August 2025
Time: 9.30 - 10.30 am (AEST) Brisbane time
Topic: Decentration and the Self–World Relationship: Theoretical Foundations from a Metacognitive Perspective
Presenter: Courtney Wiesepape
Date: 4 September 2025
Time: 9.30 - 10.30 am (AEST) Brisbane time
Topic: Decentration in Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Clinical Applications of a Metacognitive Approach
Presenters: Kelsey Huling & Courtney Wiesepape
Publications and Articles
In this 2021 interview with the ABC, Dave Misso talked about his research into developing a novel group treatment intervention for male perpetrators of domestic violence. Visit ABC website to read the interview
Dr Giancarlo Dimaggio
Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT)
In this excerpt from Giancarlo's 2024 Live Webinar Series, he talks about how psychotherapy supports people to discover the positive aspects of self and integrate these aspects into their daily lives.
Healing Horizons
International Professional Development Tour
South Africa 29 March - 12 April 2025
This Tour is now full.
Expressions of interest for the 2026 Tour are now being accepted.
Our professional and personal development tour to South Africa offers a unique cultural engagement and learning environment.
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