Clinical Journeys 2024-25 applications have CLOSED.
We hope you’ll join us in 2025-26!

CLINICAL JOURNEYS:
How We Look, Listen, and Change

Want to work more effectively? 
Ever feel overwhelmed by your sessions? 
Curious about the deeper layers of your work?
 

In Clinical Journeys seminars, you’ll learn to apply useful and varied psychoanalytic concepts to situations you encounter every day. Our engaging “taster” of psychoanalytic models will enhance and deepen your clinical work while helping you hone your own confident and personalized style, all in a collegial seminar environment. If you’re curious about psychoanalytic training, Clinical Journeys is an excellent introduction -- and if you’re looking to revitalize an established practice, our course is an invigorating refresher. Clinical Journeys is currently offered by Zoom wherever you practice.  

Our application process is rolling from May 15 to August 15.

Note: If Clinical Journeys fills before August 15, the application process will close early. 

(CLINICAL JOURNEYS GRADUATES seeking information about our optional second year, Clinical Journeys 2: Evolution of Technique, click here.)

PROGRAM DETAILS 

I. General Information: 

• Clinical Journeys comprises three 8-week trimesters from September to June. 
• Classes are held on Tuesday evenings from 6:30pm to 9:00pm (NY), with a 30-minute  break. 
• Tuition for each trimester is $650 (totaling $1,950 for the year) with payment due before the first class of each trimester. 
• 60 CEs are available for NYS LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs, LMFTs, and licensed psychologists at the completion of the program.
• Clinical Journeys requires the following as minimum eligibility: 1) A master’s degree or current enrollment in a master’s program; 2) Client-facing work to draw from during the course.

II. Course Description: 

• Trimester 1 focuses on the therapist's experience, probing what it means to work psychoanalytically. Topics include developmental stages, repetitions, dissociation,  fantasies and illusions, and the frame, while also considering different theoretical models and our inevitable personal psychoanalytic preferences and biases. 

• Trimester 2 focuses on the therapeutic relationship from different theoretical vantages. Central concepts include enactments, defenses, mentalization, self-states, and continued exploration of transference and countertransference experiences -- including love and hate.

• Trimester 3 opens with the question "Why Diagnose,” inviting students to consider their perspective on diagnosing and diagnoses. We then explore different psychoanalytic experiences of common in-room manifestations, such as trauma, anxiety, depression,  addiction, anger, and more. 

Please note: Clinical Journeys teaches from an LGBTQ+ positive, anti-racist perspective.  As such, our program incorporates readings and discussions designed to help clinicians better serve these populations. 

III. Application Process: 

1. To download our application, please click here. 

2. Email your completed application form and CV to both ppsc@ppsc.org and  marisa@vicharacenter.com between May 15 and August 15, 2025. Note: August 15 is  a rolling deadline; if our course fills before this date, applications will close early. 

3. Submit a non-refundable application fee of $50.00 to PPSC  (ppsc@ppsc.org) via Zelle along with your application. Please designate “Clinical Journeys application” in the payment memo.  

4. We will arrange a phone interview with a member of our faculty once your application is processed. 

Please contact marisa@vicharacenter.com with any questions. 

Thank you for your interest in Clinical Journeys! 

PPSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual preference, national or ethnic origin, disability or analytic orientation in the administration of its admissions and education policies.

Psst: Are you a Clinical Journeys graduate?

We now offer an optional second year! More information here: