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The Centre for Training in Psychotherapy provides training in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
What is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?
Through an alliance that therapist and client create together, within the unique space of the therapeutic relationship, psychodynamic psychotherapy encourages more flexible responses to personal and interpersonal experiences that limit life and call for change.
Psychodynamics are grounded in an understanding that much of our thinking, feeling and embodied life is rooted in societal, developmental and relational patterns that are currently out of our awareness but still actively shape our lives.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy requires both curiosity about the thematic, repetitive impact of past experiences on our present narrative of self and others, and a willingness to explore thoughts and behaviours we tend to avoid. Psychodynamic psychotherapy includes a deep interest in unconscious life, through the windows of dreams, imaginings and wishes for the future.
The CTP offers an unusual long-term part-time program in which faculty and students work together in a lively environment that enables the student to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
The duration and intensity of the CTP program ensure that our graduates experience in themselves those deeper levels of personal growth that prove vital in helping their clients to grow and develop.
The CTP has a long and distinguished history of contributions to psychodynamic psychotherapy. Opened as a training institute in 1986, the school has graduated 237 professional psychodynamic psychotherapists as of June 2024. The majority of our graduates have gone on to establish individual practices and therapy centres of their own.
This web site has been designed both to give you information about the CTP program, and also to provide a wide range of information about psychodynamic psychotherapy, with useful links to other sites.