Admissions Process

Once we receive your complete application, we will call you to schedule Zoom interviews with two members of the Admissions Committee. Our admissions process includes two types of interviews: clinical and personal.

Clinical interview – An interviewer will meet with you to discuss your clinical experience, skills, and learning goals, and will ask you to discuss case material. The purpose is to collaborate with you to assess your readiness to undertake the training programs and to help you select the most appropriate training opportunities for your learning goals.

Personal interview – A second interviewer on a second call will ask you to discuss your personal experiences as they relate to your roles as psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, supervisee, student, and patient. Among psychotherapy models, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy place the greatest emphasis on the therapeutic relationship.  These models require a high degree of self-awareness concerning one’s subjective experiences within the relationship.  Consequently, we believe that the personal interview is an essential part of our collaboration with you in selecting the most appropriate training opportunities. The interview addresses such qualities as self-awareness, psychological-mindedness, personal comfort, manner of relating, openness, flexibility, personal history, and curiosity about one’s dynamics, so you can expect that you will be asked to share your personal experiences.