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Requirements and Regulations
PRE-REQUISITES/REQUIREMENTS
Spiritual Psychotherapy Students
- For part-time studies, you must be enrolled in the Discovering the Total Self Program. The 10 modules need to be completed to graduate from the Spiritual Psychotherapy Training Program.
- At least 100 hours of individual and/or group therapy need to be completed to receive a Diploma. Therapy should be started before the program begins. Therapists must do their own work before they can become effective professionals.
- You can go to your therapist of choice. You can do counselling at a reduced fee through the College’s Counselling Clinic. One Intensive at the College. It is recommended that the Intensive be completed during the first year. The hours for the Intensive can be applied towards the required 100 therapy hours.
PRACTICUM AND EXAMS
Students will have practicums to complete involving practice therapy sessions. Homework assignments and open book quizzes will also be given. Two take-home exams will be assigned.
DIPLOMA
- Students must attend 100% of classes in order to receive a Diploma from Transformational Arts. (Make-up classes can be scheduled)
- A passing mark of 75% for exams must be obtained. Practicums must also be completed.
- This program involves a minimum of 776 hours of study including the Case Studies Course and the hours from the Total Self Program. For the Total Self Program, 75% attendance is required for each module.
REGULATIONS
From the Alliance of Psychotherapy Training Institutes
The Changing Landscape for Psychotherapy in Ontario
In passing the Psychotherapy Act (2007), the Ontario Government has:
- formally recognized psychotherapy as a distinct profession, and
- announced plans to create a College to oversee this newly regulated health profession.
The regulation of psychotherapy requires setting education and training standards:
- to determine eligibility for entry into the practice of psychotherapy and
- as a basis of assessment for safeguarding the ongoing quality of psychotherapy provided in Ontario.
Setting one core training standard for psychotherapy has never before been attempted in Ontario.
It is a task that requires much care because both effectiveness and diversity must be safeguarded. (Psychotherapy has a long history with a fertile base- for a long time now there has been available to the public a rich choice among high quality psychotherapeutic modalities.)
Setting the parameters of this newly recognized distinct profession is a task that requires much care, but it will help to clarify who is doing what. (Up to now many people, with a variety of titles other than psychotherapist, have described part or all of what they do as psychotherapy-so understandably, there is some confusion about who psychotherapists are and what they do.)
Why does APTI exist? … protecting the Quality, Accessibility, and Diversity of Psychotherapy
For a long time there has been a diverse and rich offering of psychotherapy services in Ontario- and behind that offering are the many psychotherapy training schools in this province that are devoted to training high quality psychotherapists.
A group of such training institutions with over one hundred years of collective experience have joined to form APTI- to offer their collective expertise and experience to the government.
Most recently, APTI members have pooled their knowledge to create one core curriculum for psychotherapy training in Ontario that would protect both the high quality of psychotherapy that is currently offered in Ontario, and the rich diversity of psychotherapeutic modality from which Ontario residents can now choose.
This is an exciting time. The initiative in Ontario to recognize and regulate psychotherapy as a distinct profession is a relatively pioneering endeavour in the global context; it is an extremely important endeavour- and the world is watching.
The Alliance of Psychotherapy Institutions is committed to participating in the regulating of psychotherapy, particularly in helping to formulate requirements and standards for training and professional development.
Transformational Arts is a member of APTI (Alliance of Psychotherapy Training Institutes and also attends, in an observatory capacity, the Executive Committee meetings of the Transitional Council of the College of Registered Psychotherapists and Registered Mental Health Therapists – the governing body of the health regulatory college, currently under development in Ontario. It is anticipated that Psychotherapy will be regulated sometime in 2012. The Transitional Council has endorsed grandparenting of current psychotherapists for a period of time but parameters and requirements are still under discussion. As requirements become ratified, we will post updates on this portion of the website.