Placement Opportunities
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual psychotherapy clinic based in Toronto, Ontario, specializing in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Our approach is rooted in evidence-based interventions and focuses on uncovering, understanding, and resolving the underlying emotions and root causes of symptoms. Through in-depth, collaborative discussions, we analyze unconscious thoughts and emotions from childhood to the present, exploring how they influence current experiences. This comprehensive approach allows us to develop targeted strategies that foster meaningful change and symptom relief. At the Centre for Psychodynamic Insights, we are committed to helping patients achieve deeper self-awareness and lasting transformation through a personalized and integrative treatment plan.
About the Centre for Psychodynamic Insights
Become a Placement Student With Us
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights offers thoughtful and reflective non-clinical student placements for individuals pursuing careers in psychotherapy, counselling, or psychology. Our placement program is grounded in psychodynamic values, including curiosity about the unconscious, attention to relational dynamics, and the complexity of the human experience.
While our approach is focused on psychodynamic theory, we warmly welcome students from other therapeutic orientations if the placement aligns with your academic program’s requirements.
Learning in a Depth-Oriented Environment
Our student placements are structured to provide meaningful engagement in a psychotherapy setting without direct patient interaction. Instead, students are immersed in the clinical and administrative life of the clinic through collaborative, behind-the-scenes roles that promote professional development, ethical awareness, and reflective learning.
Clinical Meetings & Team Learning
Placement students are invited to attend monthly group meetings where they can observe professional dialogue among psychodynamic clinicians, engage in case discussions (while strictly maintaining patient confidentiality), and deepen their understanding of topics such as transference, resistance, and therapeutic process. These meetings also offer insight into how clinicians think together and support one another in practice.
Resource Development
Students may assist in developing resources for patients and the broader community. This can include worksheets, blog posts, handouts, group materials, or social media content related to psychodynamic themes such as grief, trauma, anxiety, ADHD, relationships, and life transitions. These contributions help bridge clinical knowledge with accessible, supportive tools.
Treatment Support & Clinical Preparation
Students may help gather and organize therapeutic resources, develop psychodynamic-themed templates, and summarize non-identifying patient themes for therapist reference. These tasks can offer a valuable opportunity to learn about therapeutic pacing, language, and meaningful interventions.
Case Formulation & Documentation
Under the guidance of a registered clinician, students may engage in mock documentation, practice treatment planning, and explore psychodynamic case formulation using hypothetical or de-identified examples. This helps strengthen clinical reasoning and familiarity with the therapeutic practices in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Students support various non-patient-facing tasks essential to clinic operations, such as organizing resource libraries, managing internal materials, supporting project-based initiatives, and assisting with communications. These can offer insight into the structure of an ethical, community-based psychodynamic psychotherapy practice.
Administrative Contributions
Who We Are Looking For
We invite applications from students who:
Are enrolled in a psychology, counselling, or psychotherapy program with a placement or practicum requirement.
Are curious about psychodynamic theory and relational psychotherapy.
Are organized, reflective, and professional in both independent and team settings.
Understand the importance of boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical conduct.
Applicants from CBT, integrative, humanistic, or other orientations are welcome to apply if this opportunity complements your learning goals and program expectations.
Please note that because this role does not include patient interaction, this role may not align with your Master’s Degree program requirements.
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment where all employees and patients feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of our patients and the communities in which we live and serve. If you require accommodation for any stage of the recruitment process/interview process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations), please reach out to us at info@centreforpsychodynamicinsights.com.
How to Apply
To apply, please send your CV and a brief statement outlining your program’s placement requirements and your learning interests to info@centreforpsychodynamicinsights.com. Be sure to include any relevant documentation from your school outlining placement expectations, hours, and supervision requirements. We look forward to hearing from you!
Placements are offered year-round based on availability.