ISTDP-North
Training Team

Dr Malda Castillo is a clinical psychologist (DClin) and an International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) certified teacher and supervisor in ISTDP.

For the past decade, he has worked in the NHS delivering and implementing ISTDP and has published several studies on the efficacy and suitability of this method in secondary care mental health services.

He trained in ISTDP with Dr Neborsky and Alexandra Knowles, and has specialized in this method with Dr Josette ten Have-de Labije over the past five years in Germany.

He is also an accredited Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) supervisor by the Anna Freud Centre and has extensive experience in delivering supervision within the framework of NHS England’s rollout of psychological therapies.

His previous therapeutic training includes two years of group psychodynamic therapy with the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA), and four years of individual psychodynamic psychotherapy with the Tavistock Clinic psychotherapy training program.

Josette ten Have-de Labije, PsyD, is a qualified psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. She is trained as a cognitive-behavior therapist (individual and group settings), couples therapist, therapist for psychodynamic individual and group psychotherapy, and therapist for Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

From 1989 to 1992, she was a member of the Dutch ISTDP core group, which was trained and supervised by Professor Dr. H. Davanloo.

As a supervisor and trainer of ISTDP, she has provided supervision, several post-doctorate courses, and workshops in the Netherlands. In addition, she has given—and continues to give—workshops, training, and supervision on ISTDP in the USA, Canada, South Africa, China, England, Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Italy.

She has been a board member of the International Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association (IEDTA). She is editor-in-chief of the Ad Hoc Bulletin for STDP: Practice and Theory and has published several books and articles.