About the Centre for Psychodynamic Insights:

The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a Canadian virtual mental healthcare clinic offering comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and integrated care across psychotherapy, psychiatry, family medicine, psychological assessments, and neurological assessments.

Our clinic is rooted in a psychodynamic and psychoanalytic understanding of mental health, with a focus on uncovering, understanding, and addressing the underlying emotions, unconscious patterns, and root causes that contribute to symptoms and relational difficulties. Through in-depth clinical assessment, collaborative discussion, and evidence-based treatment planning, we support patients in developing greater self-awareness, relieving symptoms, and working toward lasting change.

At the Centre for Psychodynamic Insights, we are committed to thoughtful, patient-centred, and integrated mental healthcare. Our model allows us to support patients with complex psychological, psychiatric, medical, developmental, cognitive, and neurological concerns through a comprehensive and collaborative approach.

About the Position:

This role is ideal for a psychiatrist with expertise in psychodynamic or psychoanalytic therapy who values in-depth, long-term therapeutic engagement. In addition to providing comprehensive psychotherapy, you will conduct psychiatric assessments, prescribe psychotropic medications when appropriate, and monitor patients’ responses and side effects over time. You will also provide psychoeducation about medication use within a psychodynamically informed treatment framework.

Working virtually with children, adolescents, or adults, depending on your clinical preferences, you will address a broad range of concerns, including trauma, mood and anxiety disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions, personality disorders, complex relational concerns, and other mental health difficulties. You will be joining a growing interdisciplinary clinic that offers psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychiatric care, family medicine, psychological assessments, and neurological assessments.

Requirements:

• Conduct psychiatric assessments

• Prescribe psychotropic medications and conduct regular assessments of therapeutic responses and side effects, and educate patients regarding psychotropic medication.

• Provide psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapy to adolescents and adults (18+). All theoretical frameworks are welcome (e.g., Jungian, Freudian, Object Relations, or Adlerian approaches).

• Experience, comfort, and willingness in most of the specializations listed on our website. Experience working with trauma, anxiety, depression, neurodevelopmental disorders, personality disorders, and sexual issues is required.

• Willingness to work with patients at a frequency of at least once a week.

• Comfort using Avaros for scheduling, documentation, and secure communication.

• Work virtually with access to a confidential workspace, adequate lighting, high-speed internet, and a high-quality camera.

• Ability to maintain a caseload of at least 8 patients per week.

Qualifications:

• For Ontario residents: Must be registered as a member in good standing with the CPSO. Applicants not registered with this college will not be considered. For residents of other provinces and the United States: Must be willing to register with CPSO and relocate to Ontario.

• Depth and breadth of knowledge, skills, and expertise in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapy. This could include Jungian analysis, Adlerian analysis, or any other psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approach. This could be obtained through one or more of the following: personal experience in receiving psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapy, individual research and interest, education, clinical expertise, training, and supervision.

  Please note that while our clinic is dedicated exclusively to psychodynamic and psychoanalytic modalities, some patients who begin psychotherapy sessions may benefit more from other modalities before commencing analytical work due to their current symptoms. Such modalities include cognitive-behavioural or other non-analytic approaches. As such, we welcome practitioners who work with experiential and integrative approaches within a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic framework.

• Experience and comfort with virtual therapy and working with adolescents and adults.

Assets:

• Experience with couples, families, pre-/post-natal/postpartum issues, women-specific issues, or eating disorders.

• Experience working with individuals under 18.

• Knowledge of Bowen Family Systems theory.

• French or additional language skills.

Availability: Monday to Friday, including mornings, afternoons, and evenings.

Application Instructions: Submit your resume/CV and a cover letter that includes a brief personal background and an explanation of how you meet the job requirements in one document.

Please note:

• This is an independent contractor position.

• Only applicants who are selected for further consideration will be contacted. We appreciate your interest in joining our team!

Start Date: As soon as possible.

Application Deadline: Open until the position is filled.

We look forward to welcoming a passionate and skilled psychiatrist to our team!

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

Artificial Intelligence Disclosure

The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights does not use artificial intelligence tools to screen or automatically evaluate applicants. All applications are reviewed by the Clinic Director and the Operations team.