TUITION
Same training. Same credential. Priced for your region.
ISST-Approved training for standard and advanced individual and couples schema therapy, delivered identically to every participant. Tuition is calibrated to local cost of living so that a clinician in Lagos, Kyiv, or Mumbai trains alongside one in New York or London, in the same room, on the same material, toward the same certification.
A CORE VALUE
The Anti-Groupthink Solution
Imagine a clinical case discussion where every voice in the room trained in the same city, treated the same population, and learned the same shortcuts. The case unfolds neatly. Everyone nods. And the most important question, the one a clinician from a different context would have asked, is never spoken.
That quiet ease is a clinical risk. Pattern recognition, the engine of expert practice, is built from the cases you have seen and the cases your colleagues bring you. A cohort trained in one setting sees one slice of human suffering. A cohort drawn from Lagos, Buenos Aires, Kyiv, Manila, and New York sees something closer to the full range. The schemas show up dressed differently. The coping styles wear local clothes. The therapy gets sharper because the case material is varied enough to be real.
This is the practical case for varied perspectives, made without slogans. Cohorts with different backgrounds, languages, and clinical contexts question the assumptions every clinician carries in unexamined. They surface the cultural defaults hiding inside our case formulations. They make supervision more rigorous, not more comfortable. And they protect each participant from the slow, invisible drift toward groupthink that quietly narrows what a therapist is capable of seeing.
Our regional tuition model is the mechanism. The cohort is the outcome. The clinician you become inside it, sharper, more cross-culturally fluent, less easily fooled by your own assumptions, is the reason.
CERTIFICATION TRACK
Individual Certification Tuition (ST-I)
42 hours of live training across 14 sessions. Coursework toward ISST individual certification.
Tier 1Full tuition
$1,695 paid in fullor 4 payments of $475 ($1,900 total)
Tier 2Reduced tuition
$995 paid in fullor 6 payments of $185 ($1,110 total)
Tier 3Further reduced tuition
$495 paid in fullor 6 payments of $95 ($570 total)
Ukraine & HumanitarianRequires approval after acceptance
$295 paid in fullor 4 payments of $81 ($324 total)
CERTIFICATION TRACK
Couples Certification Tuition (ST-C)
33 hours of live training across 11 sessions. Coursework toward ISST couples certification.
Tier 1Full tuition
$1,295 paid in fullor 4 payments of $365 ($1,460 total)
Tier 2Reduced tuition
$795 paid in fullor 6 payments of $150 ($900 total)
Tier 3Further reduced tuition
$395 paid in fullor 6 payments of $75 ($450 total)
Ukraine & HumanitarianRequires approval after acceptance
$225 paid in fullor 4 payments of $62 ($248 total)
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Master Series Tuition
Continuing-education sessions for clinicians who have completed foundational schema therapy training. Pricing follows the same three-tier regional structure, plus humanitarian tuition.
Tier 1Full tuition
Tier 2Reduced tuition
Tier 3Further reduced tuition
Ukraine & Humanitarian
Current Master Series session pricing is confirmed at the point of registration.
ONGOING DEVELOPMENT
Supervision Tuition
Supervision follows the same three-tier regional structure, plus humanitarian tuition, as certification coursework. Tier is determined by country of residence. After acceptance, contact us directly to confirm supervision tuition details.
Tier by Country of Residence
Find your country below. The tier determines your tuition rate; the training itself is identical for every participant.
These lists cover every country we currently enroll from. If your country of residence does not appear below, contact us before applying and we will confirm your tier in writing.
TIER ONE
Full Tuition
North America
United States, Canada.
Western and Northern Europe
United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg.
Asia and the Pacific
Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR (China), Australia, New Zealand, Brunei Darussalam.
Middle East
Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman.
Territories and microstates
Andorra, Aruba, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, Curaçao, the Faroe Islands, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam, the Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Macao SAR (China), Martinique, Mayotte, Monaco, Nauru, New Caledonia, Palau, Puerto Rico, Réunion, San Marino, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), St. Martin (French part), the Turks and Caicos Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands.
TIER TWO
Reduced Tuition
Eastern and Central Europe
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia.
Southern Europe
Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay.
Asia and the Pacific
American Samoa, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China (Mainland), Fiji, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Samoa, Seychelles, Taiwan (China), Thailand, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, the Northern Mariana Islands.
Africa
Botswana, Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa.
Other
Algeria, Türkiye.
TIER THREE
Further Reduced Tuition
South Asia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
Southeast Asia
Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, Vietnam.
East and Central Asia
Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.
Middle East and North Africa
Afghanistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Congo (Rep.), Côte d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.
Pacific Islands
Kiribati, Micronesia (Fed. Sts.), Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Latin America
Bolivia, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela.
UKRAINE & HUMANITARIAN
Humanitarian Tuition
Clinicians residing in Ukraine are eligible for humanitarian tuition. Five honorary seats are reserved per cohort across ST-I and ST-C separately. Additional Ukrainian applicants may enroll at the Tier 3 rate. War-related disruption qualifies a participant for a two-year transfer window to complete remaining sessions at no additional charge.
Policies
Ukraine & humanitarian policy
Five honorary seats per cohort are available at the humanitarian rate, applied separately to ST-I and ST-C. Additional Ukrainian applicants may enroll at the Tier 3 rate. Ukrainian participants who need to pause training due to war-related disruption may complete remaining sessions in a future cohort within two years of original enrollment at no additional charge.
Excluded countries
Enrollment is not currently available to applicants based in Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Myanmar, Russia, Syria, or Zimbabwe due to U.S. sanctions or payment processing restrictions.
Refund policy
Tuition is nonrefundable. Participants who cannot complete a program may transfer to any future cohort within one year of their original program start date at no additional charge. Ukrainian participants under the humanitarian policy have a two-year transfer window for war-related disruption.
Ready to apply?
Applications open for the next cohort. After acceptance, you will receive your tuition invoice with your tier confirmed.