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Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Learn Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Relationship-Centered Care and Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Certificate Program Begins April 16, 2027

Relationships influence how people experience illness, navigate change, cope with loss, and recover from mental health challenges. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is one approach that can address these experiences through an evidence-supported, structured approach to care.

The Relationship-Centred Care and Interpersonal Psychotherapy Certificate Program helps healthcare professionals develop practical skills in applying IPT and relationship-centred approaches. Through case-based learning, reflective practice, faculty mentorship, and skills development, participants gain tools they can bring directly into clinical settings.

Whether you work in mental health, primary care, or another patient-facing role, this program will strengthen your capacity to provide relationship-centered care and counselling.

Target Audience

The certificate program is designed for psychiatrists, family physicians, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists, registered nurses, registered psychotherapists, and other healthcare professionals seeking to strengthen their skills in relationship-centered care and interpersonal psychotherapy.

Led by Award-Winning

Program Co-Director Dr. Paula Ravitz is the inaugural recipient of the ISIPT's Klerman & Weissman Award for Excellence in Outreach, Teaching, and Dissemination for her cumulative record of teaching excellence and IPT dissemination impacts.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this certificate program, participants will be able to:

  • Describe IPT phase- and focus-specific therapeutic guidelines for case formulation in the treatment of people struggling with depression, by working through relational life events of loss, change, conflict and isolation that are associated with symptom onset or worsening.
  • Use IPT therapeutic tasks including interpersonal inventories and communication analyses to understand and improve patients’ interpersonal effectiveness in relationships.
  • Apply relational theories with cultural humility for therapeutic responsiveness to patient differences including attachment patterns of relating and intersectional identities.