The largest US distance-learning institution for therapists
Earn a globally valid certification in psychoanalysis — with professional registration and your official practitioner ID — recognized across 130+ countries.
Self-paced · fully online · certificate + register + practitioner ID included.
A credential you can prove
What you receive
A completion-based professional certification — not a state license or an accredited academic degree.
An official certificate of completion in psychoanalysis, issued by a US-based institution and used by graduates across 130+ countries.
Your name is entered into the Therapist University professional register — a verifiable record that you trained and qualified with us.
Your official practitioner ID and digital badge — a tangible, verifiable mark of your standing to show clients and display in your practice.
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The full, end-to-end path to qualify as a psychoanalyst — the complete theoretical base and the methodology to run sessions from intake to ongoing treatment. And the deepest journey into understanding yourself: many students begin to heal their own story before they ever see a client.
Specializations
Become a certified specialist. Each certification, $297 — certificate, register entry, and practitioner ID included.
Certify to work with anxiety — and quiet your own anxious mind.
For your practice — Assess and work with anxiety presentations — panic, generalized worry, and somatic anxiety — with a session protocol from first contact to stabilization.
For your own life — Understand and quiet your own anxious mind, and stop the spiral before it takes over.
Recognize and work with depressive states — and your own heaviness.
For your practice — Clinical frameworks for recognizing and working with depressive states, low mood, and motivation collapse — and how to hold and guide a client through it.
For your own life — Make sense of your own heaviness and emptiness, and learn the tools that help you climb back out.
Work with dependency clinically — and understand its roots.
For your practice — Work with dependency — substance and behavioral — using relapse-aware, harm-reduction-informed framing and recovery protocols.
For your own life — Understand the roots of your own or a loved one's compulsions, and the path out.
Heal intergenerational wounds — and break the cycles you carry.
For your practice — Work with intergenerational and family-system wounds — map inherited patterns and intervene on them skillfully.
For your own life — Understand how your family shaped you, and break cycles you don't want to pass on.
Address intimacy and identity with skill — and accept your own.
For your practice — Address sexual identity, desire, and intimacy concerns within a non-judgmental, scope-honest clinical frame.
For your own life — Understand and accept your own sexuality and intimacy patterns.
Specialize in workplace dynamics — and find your own alignment.
For your practice — Specialize in workplace dynamics, career stress, purpose, and professional identity — the psychology of work, never income claims.
For your own life — Understand your relationship with work — stress, ambition, dissatisfaction — and find alignment.
Child & developmental psychoanalysis — and the child you once were.
For your practice — Child and developmental psychoanalysis — working with young clients and guiding parents with age-appropriate technique.
For your own life — Understand your own child, or the child you once were.
Work with broken trust and rupture — and process your own.
For your practice — Specialize in infidelity, broken trust, and relational rupture — approaches for individuals and couples.
For your own life — Process your own betrayal, rebuild trust, and decide what comes next.
Treat phobias and self-doubt — and move past your own fears.
For your practice — Work with phobias, self-doubt, and confidence deficits — techniques to rebuild a client's sense of self.
For your own life — Name the fears that run your life and the insecurities that hold you back — and move past them.
Recognize major presentations and scope — in plain language.
For your practice — A structured overview of recognizing major presentations, scope-of-practice boundaries, and when to work with or refer.
For your own life — Finally understand, in plain language, what's happening inside you or someone you love.
Work with the psychology of abundance and self-worth.
For your practice — Work with clients' psychological relationship to abundance, scarcity, and self-worth — strictly mindset and emotion, never income claims.
For your own life — Understand the beliefs and patterns shaping how you relate to success and abundance.
Navigate faith, guilt, and meaning — for clients and yourself.
For your practice — Work with faith, meaning, guilt, and spiritual conflict in the clinical setting — respectfully and skillfully.
For your own life — Reconcile belief, doubt, and the role faith plays in your inner life.
Choose your path
One specialization, the international package, or the complete qualification.
Our methodology
Two reasons people enroll
Certify, enter the professional register, and earn your practitioner ID — with the methodology and scope to work confidently with real clients.
Understand why you think, feel, and react the way you do — and resolve long-standing patterns while you train. Many students heal their own story first.
Through our funding initiatives we've already granted more than $1,000,000 in student credits — including in Brazil — to help committed people begin their formation.
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Therapist University issues a globally valid certificate of completion in psychoanalysis, used by graduates across 130+ countries. It certifies that you trained and qualified through Therapist University — it is not a government-issued license. Psychoanalysis is largely unregulated in most jurisdictions; see our Recognition & Validity page for the honest specifics for your country.
No. This is a completion-based professional certification, not a state-issued license to practice regulated clinical psychotherapy. We are clear about this everywhere — it is exactly what makes us a trustworthy institution.
Three things in one enrollment: a globally valid certificate of completion, an entry in our professional register, and your official practitioner ID and digital badge — a verifiable mark you can show clients and display in your practice.
Therapist University is not a CHEA- or US Department of Education-accredited university; we do not award academic degrees or transfer credit. We provide professional formation and certification in psychoanalysis. We say this plainly because opacity about accreditation is the #1 red flag of programs you should avoid.
Every program is fully online and self-paced — you study on your own schedule, from any device. A single specialization can be completed in a matter of weeks; the Complete Training is a deeper, end-to-end path.
Yes. Every graduate in our professional register can be confirmed through our public credential verification — so clients and employers can trust the badge is real.
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