College students can be difficult to engage in intensive psychodynamic treatment. They focus on external problems, largely eschewing more internally directed, exploratory, insight-oriented work in favor of seeking solutions in the “real world.” Interpersonal psychoanalysis offers strategies that can be employed by therapists from diverse orientations to help college students engage in meaningful dynamic therapy. These strategies are not well known or fully appreciated by many therapists working with college students. In particular, the degree of flexibility inherent to the Interpersonal approach may not be well understood. As an aid to understanding, I elaborate two specific Interpersonal strategies: the detailed inquiry and participant observation. Clinical examples are offered to demonstrate the utility of this approach in engaging college students in more intensive psychotherapy.