The Alliance offers mentoring groups as a membership benefit to psychotherapists who are in their first 10 years of clinical practice in the field of psychotherapy. The primary objective of the Alliance Mentor Program is to support early-career therapists through the challenges of beginning practice.
Registration opens on May 15, 2026, and closes on July 15, 2026.
Learn more about the Alliance Mentoring Groups for 2026-27.
The Alliance Board is pleased to announce that the Annual Forum will happen on Saturday, May 2, 2026, at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA. The Forum, one of our longest running events, is our annual conference that began the same year as our founding in 1989.
NWAPS Distinguished Speakers Committee is pleased to invite you to join us for another dynamic and lively In Conversation event in which we invite an esteemed psychoanalyst to present new work and dialog with another scholar doing groundbreaking work in a field outside of psychoanalysis.
February 7 from 1pm-3:30pm in Edmonds, WA
As we begin to plan and prepare for renewing our much loved art event: Potential Space, we invite you to come together and participate in an afternoon of creativity and collaboration as we create a Community Collage Art Installation, which will be featured at Potential Space Art Show on November 14th 2026.
Join me for a three-part course exploring the clinical challenges of working with narcissistically vulnerable clients. We will examine both traditional Kohutian and contemporary perspectives in Self Psychology, beginning with Freud’s original theory of narcissism and progressing to Heinz Kohut’s radical redefinition.
Becoming Raced - Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma
A community social hour on the first Friday of every month at various locations around Seattle for Alliance Members.
These are casual gatherings, no RSVP's required. Everyone is responsible for their own bill.