One Year Program – Part II – 6 Weeks
Begins Monday, November 10th, 2025
Analytic Listening
10 CEs
Instructor: Judy Lapides
MACMHC, NJSCPsyA, NCPsyA
Dates: 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, and 12/1, 12/8,12/ 15
Monday Evenings 6:00PM (ET) – 7:30PM (ET)
Cost $350
via Zoom
Analytic Listening:
This course meets on six dates and will introduce students to the unique way a clinician listens as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. By allowing clients to introduce topics without interference, the clinician listens to the client’s story, mode of communication, and the story that is not being told. The untold story is analyzed silently, as the unconscious communication is reported in dreams, projections, defense mechanisms, resistances, and transference communications. After listening attentively, the clinician intervenes with questions—not interpretations—in order to strengthen the ego.
*10 NBCC-approved CE hours for counselors, marriage and family therapists, and art therapists.*
Participants will be able to:
- Identify unconscious communication reported in dreams, projections, defense mechanisms, resistances, and transference communications.
- Listen as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
- Explore communications for their symbolic meanings.
- Design Interventions that can empower the client and strengthen the ego.
- Assess the impact of specific interventions to facilitate progressive communication.
The One Year Program
The program consists of four courses over one year. It provides an opportunity for mental health practitioners and professionals in various disciplines to enhance clinical skills, introducing innovative, Modern Psychoanalytic principles, theories, and techniques.
Participants will discover effective strategies for designing interventions that can reverse maladaptive emotional and behavioral patterns. Through hands-on learning, they will quickly build practical clinical skills that make a lasting difference in their work with clients—fostering collaboration, self-definition, and meaningful growth.
ACAP’s unique methods for navigating challenging clinical situations can be the key to transforming burnout into renewed professional satisfaction. These approaches are grounded in the foundational concepts of Modern Psychoanalysis, offering both depth and practical application.
Full information about the four courses at
Judy Lapides, NCPsyA, NJSCPsyA, is a National and New Jersey State Certified psychoanalyst. She received a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis-NJ, and she holds a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis.
Prior to becoming a psychoanalyst, Ms. Lapides spent a number of years teaching and working with adolescents. She has a clinical practice in Morristown, NJ, where she treats adults and adolescents. Ms Lapides is presently on the faculty of ACAP and BGSP-NJ.
