Kip

KIP, founded in 2013, was developed to advance the field of psychotherapy to meet the needs and demands of the 21st century mental health consumer AND practitioner. KIP's mission is guided by three main principles: Provide training, education, and supervision for emerging psychotherapists Provide affordable psychotherapy services to the community M... ake important contributions to the psychotherapy field by generating new knowledge about the psychotherapeutic process and its effectivenes The KIP CLINIC was developed in response to the changing landscape of mental health care and the specific needs of contemporary consumers of psychotherapy. The KIP Clinic provides affordable, accessible, and high-quality psychotherapy that is grounded in empirical and practical knowledge. KIP's commitment to understanding and implementing the necessary ingredients for psychotherapeutic success that is driven by both practice and research makes us unique. The core of KIP's philosophy, the value of the therapeutic relationship in achieving clinical success, is reflected in our mission to describe, measure, and evaluate the therapeutic relationship in our practice, training, and research. Over the past several years, so many mental health graduate students entering the job market have told me about the challenges they face in finding solid training and practical experience in becoming a psychotherapist. Our KIP training program-which includes our KIP Fellowship and internships for Columbia and New York University students-was developed specifically in response to this growing demand. KIP is able to provide low-cost services in part because KIP's Fellows and Interns are talented, emerging practitioners dedicating themselves to work tirelessly towards the development of knowledge, skills, and experience to become competent and successful psychotherapists. I am proud of the talent, motivation, and skill among our team: in addition to their general skills as clinicians, we have specialists in mindfulness-based approaches, practice with ...Read More