Advanced Psychotherapy Fellowship

 

READY TO PUT YOUR DEGREE TO WORK?

YOUR FIRST BIG STEP FROM GRADUATE TO PROFESSIONAL DEPTH-ORIENTED THERAPIST

Our Mission: We promote mental wellness through quality therapy, assessment, and medication management, with a special emphasis on depth-oriented approaches that create lasting change. Our diverse team collaborates to create a supportive environment where both clients and clinicians can thrive.

About Us: We're Psychiatric and Psychological Specialties (PPS) – a unique practice that values both contemporary and traditional approaches to psychotherapy. Our team of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors is committed to providing depth-oriented care that addresses root causes rather than just managing symptoms. While we have physical offices in Southwestern Michigan and Chicago, we embrace the digital age as a primarily telehealth practice.

Beyond Quick Fixes: Become a Depth-Oriented Therapist

While many settings push for brief interventions, our program is uniquely focused on training you in the increasingly rare art of long-term, depth-oriented psychotherapy. Here you'll learn to:

  • Work beyond symptoms to address underlying patterns and dynamics

  • Develop the clinical patience to allow meaningful change to unfold

  • Navigate the complex phases of long-term therapeutic relationships

  • Build a therapeutic presence that creates space for deeper exploration

  • Balance concrete interventions with process-oriented approaches

From Textbook to Real Life: Depth-Oriented Training

Our 24-month program bridges that giant gap between your academic training and being a confident, licensed therapist who can work at deeper levels with clients. You'll:

  • Master Multiple Depth Approaches: Apply psychodynamic, relational, existential, and other models that address root causes rather than just symptoms

  • Join a Team of Depth Specialists: Work alongside clinicians who value the transformative power of long-term therapeutic relationships

  • Go Beyond Quick Fixes: Learn how to create genuine, lasting change through sustained therapeutic work

  • Follow Cases Through Their Evolution: Experience the full arc of long-term therapy, from initial assessment through termination

  • Build a Caseload with Continuity: Develop relationships with clients that allow you to witness and facilitate profound change

Why This Program Is Perfect for New Grads:

Grad school taught you the theories, but now you need real-world experience. Our two-year program is designed specifically for fresh graduates looking to transform classroom knowledge into clinical confidence. You'll get:

  • Personalized Mentorship: Supervision from seasoned professionals who specialize in depth-oriented approaches

  • Skill-Building with small-group learning, where the complexities of deep clinical work are explored openly

  • Career Development that focuses on developing a diverse caseload with a variety of clinical presentations

  • Licensure supervision for counselors, social workers, and psychologists

Depth Therapy Skills You'll Develop:

  • Therapeutic Presence: Cultivating the ability to sit with difficult emotions and existential themes

  • Dynamic Formulation: Creating sophisticated case conceptualizations that capture unconscious processes

  • Process Recognition: Identifying transference, countertransference, and in-session dynamics

  • Therapeutic Frame: Establishing and maintaining boundaries that facilitate deeper work

  • Interpretive Skills: Developing well-timed interventions that illuminate unconscious patterns

  • Containment: Holding space for intense affect and challenging material

  • Working Through: Facilitating the processing of core conflicts and developmental wounds

  • Long-Term Case Management: Navigating the phases and challenges of extended therapeutic relationships

  • Self-Reflection: Using your own reactions as clinical data to inform treatment

  • Integration: Blending depth approaches with other modalities when clinically indicated

What You'll Actually Do: Deep Clinical Work That Matters

You'll primarily provide long-term individual therapy to adults while getting involved in other clinical activities. From day one, you'll be doing meaningful clinical work that goes beyond surface-level interventions. The deep therapeutic work you'll engage in:

  • Exploring underlying dynamics of depression and anxiety rather than just symptom management

  • Characterological issues and recurring patterns

  • Major life transitions as opportunities for deeper growth

  • Complex grief and loss exploration

  • Relationship patterns and attachment styles

  • Integration of medication with psychological insight

  • Existential aspects of chronic illness

  • Developmental trauma recovery

  • Multigenerational family patterns

  • The role of multicultural factors in treatment

  • Identity formation and authentic self-development

How to Apply

Send the following to Yojana Veeramasuneni, LMSW, Psy.D. at drv@psychspecialties.com:

  • Your CV

  • A personal statement about your interest in depth-oriented therapy

  • 3 letters of recommendation from past supervisors or other clinicians can speak to your potential for this kind of work

  • A clinical case conceptualization that demonstrates your thinking

What happens next:

  • Initial conversation about your interest in depth work

  • Zoom interviews with our team of depth-oriented clinicians

  • Standard background check

Benefits That Support Your Development as a Depth Therapist:

  • Fair Compensation

  • Complete Healthcare: BCBS PPO health, vision, and dental coverage

  • Future Security: 401K with employer matching

  • Specialized Supervision: Focused on depth-oriented approaches toward full licensure in Michigan or Illinois

  • Manageable Caseload of 20-25 to allow for the emotional and intellectual demands of depth work

The Basics You Need:

  • Completed master's or doctoral program in a clinical mental health field

  • Curiosity about unconscious processes, psychodynamics, and relational work

  • Willingness to engage in self-reflection as part of professional development

  • Ability to obtain provisional clinical licensure in Michigan

Where You’ll Work:

  • Fully remote option

  • Hybrid option at either our Michigan or Chicago offices

Want to learn more about our approach?

Check out www.psychspecialties.com

Questions?

email drv@psychspecialties.com

PPS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment based on race, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sex stereotype, gender identity/gender expression/transgender (including whether or not you are transitioning or have transitioned) and sexual orientation; national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver's license issued to persons unable to prove their presence in the United States is authorized under federal law [Vehicle Code section 12801.9]); ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/characteristics, marital status/registered domestic partner status, age (40 and over), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or regulation.