Vermont Institute for the Psychotherapies (VIP)
Expand your capacity to help your patients
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
VIP provides a two-year post-graduate certificate program in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies for licensed mental health professionals
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From our students
“This training has inspired me to think and work in exciting new ways, causing me to fall in love with being a therapist all over again.”
“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
Our students are finding passion and purpose in their work again. They have enhanced their practices to better serve their patients and themselves.
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
Our Program
Convenient classes for the working professional
The goal of our training program is to increase the professional and clinical expertise of our trainees through our weekend courses that engage both faculty and students in learning together. The focus is on developing both clinical skills and insight into major psychoanalytic discoveries over the past century.
As a student, you will expand your capacity to help your patients and you will be surprised by the pleasure of the professional camaraderie and connections you develop with fellow classmates and faculty members.
Our goal is to advance and enrich the education and training of mental health professionals in psychoanalytic principles and practices
Our Mission
In an atmosphere of open dialogue and diverse theoretical perspectives, our mission is to increase professional and clinical expertise in our participants’ ability to help patients negotiate conflicts and emotional obstacles in self and relationship.
Our goal is to advance and enrich the education and training of mental health professionals in psychoanalytic principles and practices that are designed to foster freedom from symptoms and painful patterns of living, personal development and transformation, expanded creativity, vitality, and meaning in life.
From Our Students
“This training has inspired me to think and work in exciting new ways, causing me to fall in love with being a therapist all over again.”
“VIP has inspired and stimulated my mind; a sprouting process that is enlivening my work and life.”
