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1) Requirements
Clinical Membership
Normally Clinical Members shall:
- Education: hold an appropriate graduate degree from a recognized university (psychology, counselling, social work, medicine, divinity, humanities, or a program substantially similar), a copy of which should accompany the application.
Alternatively, seasoned psychotherapists who do not have a graduate degree will be considered for membership on an individual basis by the Membership Committee. Both experience and training will be assessed as an equivalent to the graduate program.
These Clinical Members shall have 3,000 hours of clinical experience and demonstrate learning in at least four (4) of the following six (6) areas as they relate to psychotherapy:
• theory
• methodology/clinical skills
• research/literature review
• assessment/testing
• intellectual enquiry
• writing skills.
Knowledge in these areas may be drawn from the following sources: courses, seminars, training workshops, professional conferences and work experience. These sources shall be in addition to personal psychotherapy or psychotherapy training
- Psychotherapy Training: have specific training in psychotherapy or have completed an academic graduate degree counselling practicum.
- Clinical Psychotherapy Practice: have a minimum of one thousand hours of professional clinical work as a psychotherapist. This clinical work must be mainly with individuals.
- Supervision: have completed a minimum of one hundred hours of one-to-one supervision. Ordinarily an applicant is expected to have at least two supervisors, neither of whom have concurrently served as the applicant's personal psychotherapist.
- Individual Psychotherapy: have completed a minimum of one hundred and fifty hours of personal psychotherapy. At least fifty hours of this must be individual and consecutive with one psychotherapist.
- References: provide two current references, neither of whom is your current psychotherapist one from a supervisor or trainer and the other from a colleague familiar with your work. Both references must be Clinical Members or qualified to be Clinical Members of OSP.
- Liability Insurance: have, or apply and be approved for, professional liability insurance.
- Code of Ethics: sign an agreement to abide by the Society's Code of Ethics.
- Fees: pay the current membership fee.
- CEUs: report a set number of continuing education units yearly.
2) Privileges and Limitations
Clinical Members shall hold all the rights and privileges of full membership within OSP including the right to serve on any Provincial Committee, the right to be nominated for Executive Office or for the Chair of any Committee, and the right to be nominated as a voting member of the Delegate Council.
Clinical members have the right to use the designation "Clinical Member, OSP."
Proviso: Qualifying Members accepted prior to November 14, 1997, seeking Clinical Member status will have their request to upgrade reviewed according to the membership By-laws in effect when they became a Qualifying Member.
If you do not currently meet all of these requirements, you may be able to join as a Qualifying Member.
Download the OSP Membership Application
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