Analytic Consultation
For questions about any aspect of the Analytic Consultation component of psychoanalytic training, please contact Consulting Analyst Committee Chair Holly Gordon, DMH (hollygordon4@gmail.com).
Over the course of training, candidates conduct three or more supervised psychoanalyses in order to gain a variety of different clinical and consultative experiences. Each treatment meets at least three times per week, and candidates are strongly encouraged to see their supervised cases at higher frequency (four or five times per week) whenever feasible in order to maximize immersion.
Each psychoanalysis must be in analytic consultation with an SFCP-approved Consulting Analyst, usually from SFCP’s Directory of Consulting Analysts. Any analyst who is an SFCP member and who has sufficient training and experience may become an SFCP Consulting Analyst via a straightforward and efficient process (see ‘Applying to Become an SFCP Consulting Analyst’), should a candidate wish to work with a consultant not yet on this list. In addition, candidates may also request analytic consultation from qualified analysts outside of SFCP (See ‘Applying to Become an Adjunct Consulting Analyst’). Please contact the Consulting Analyst Committee Chair for more information.
Analytic consultation fees are separate from tuition, and in most cases, the candidate pays the consultant according to the following reduced-fee schedule:
| Per-session fee paid by candidate’s patient |
Per-session fee paid to consultant by candidate |
| Greater than $150 | $150 |
| $50-$150 | Same as fee paid by candidate’s patient |
| <$50 | $50 |
In accordance with SFCP’s commitment to making psychoanalytic training more affordable and accessible to individuals affected by race-based and class-based systemic inequities which have previously served as barriers to pursuing analytic training, SFCP is now offering affordable analytic consultation ($25 or less) to help cover costs of analytic training for BIPOC candidates and candidates with financial need. To learn more, please see a more detailed description of the Affordable Training Analysis and Analytic Consultation Program on the SFCP Website or contact Consulting Analyst Committee Chair, Holly Gordon, DMH (hollygordon4@gmail.com), with any questions.
Training cases emerge from the candidate’s existing practice or via referrals from colleagues. Most cases begin treatment in a less intensive frame and progress to psychoanalysis when candidate and patient together decide to meet more frequently. Candidates receive support in facilitating this process of deepening treatment via first-year courses, including Deepening Treatment & Beginning Psychoanalysis as well as the Year 1 Case Conference; via free weekly mentorship focused on developing cases; and via beginning analytic consultation with a Consulting Analyst at the reduced-fee structure shown above.
Graduation does not require supervised cases to have terminated, since the duration of psychoanalysis often is longer than the duration of psychoanalytic training. However, each case must have been consulted for at least two years prior to graduation, and there is an additional requirement for some immersive work, e.g., for more than one case to be in treatment concurrently.