Supervision & Training

Psychotherapy Supervision

Dr. D’Onofrio offers psychotherapy supervision that is psychodynamically and existentially informed. His approach emphasizes the development of the capacities to establish and keep secure the therapeutic frame, to attune to interpersonal process in the moment, and to listen and respond generatively to the patient’s unconscious communication and inner experience.

Licensed and license-eligible clinicians seeking supervision are encouraged to contact Dr. D’Onofrio to discuss his approach to supervision to determine the goodness-of-fit between his style and your supervisory needs.​ 

Seminars and Workshops

Dr. D’Onofrio’s ability to translate complex scientific ideas and psychological processes into meaningful and eminently practical concepts has led him to be invited to speak to diverse groups that include mental health professionals, educators, and parent organizations. He offers professional development training to schools and mental health agencies and will work with your staff to develop a training experience that will excite and inspire your group.

Selected Presentations

  • Attachment, Regulation, and Mentalization (ARM): Making Contact with and Containing the Traumatized Adolescent.
  • Containing Rage, Terror, Shame, & Despair: The Traumatized Adolescent and the Therapeutic Hold
  • Working at the Edges of the Window of Affective Tolerance in Psychotherapy and Supervision
  • Containing Dysregulated Self-States in Psychotherapy Trainees
  • Primary Maternal Preoccupation” in Psychotherapy
  • Implicit Communication and Integration of Split Self-States in Psychotherapy
  • Interactive Repair of Trauma in Psychotherapy
  • Enactments, Shared Minds, and the Repair of Self
  • Developing a Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
  • Projective Identification, Containment, and the Therapeutic Frame
  • Loving Our Children Well: A Conversation About Parenting, Emotional Development, and the Cultivation of Wellbeing.
  • The Emotion-Processing Brain and the Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
  • Empathy, Compassion, and the Neuroscience of Human Relationships
  • The Patient as Supervisor to the Therapist
  • Understanding the Bully: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
  • Dante and the Hero’s Journey: A Model for Transformative Leadership
  • Boundaries, Frames, and Death Anxiety in Clinical Practice
  • Building Healthy Relationships with Students: Managing Professional Boundaries in Schools
  • Listening for and Validating Unconscious Communication in Psychotherapy
  • The Archetypal Ground Rules of Psychotherapy and Supervision
  • Empathy, Attunement, and Emotional Development: Listening to the Inner Life of Children
  • Trauma, Human Development, and the Repair of the Self
  • Psychotherapy and the Brain-Mind-Body Connection
  • Generative Listening in Psychotherapy and Supervision
  • Trauma of Childhood, Ruptured Attachment, and Adult Psychopathology
  • The Treatment of Complex Trauma: Psychotherapy and the Brain-Mind-Body Link
  • Complex Trauma and Child Development: Creating a Trauma-Informed Counseling Approach
  • Cutting the Skin to Find Oneself: Understanding, Assessing, & Treating Self-Injury
  • Ambivalence and Guilt in the Psychology of St. Paul.
  • Interpersonal Process in the Bi-Personal Field of Psychotherapy and Clinical Supervision
  • Cultivating the Therapeutic Personality in Psychotherapy Supervision

Why I practice and teach a psychotherapy of depth. 

Lionel Corbett, MD, beautifully describes the nature of depth psychotherapy and offers a very sound rationale for choosing a therapist who works from this perspective. My talk below, in a sense, extends Dr. Corbett's position and focuses on how we listen to our inner spaces in a psychotherapy of depth. Enjoy!

Relevant Conference Papers

Listening to Inner Spaces (9 January 2013)
File Size: 262 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File
The Poiesis of Encounter (15 May 2026)
File Size: 231 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File
Proudly powered by Weebly