Choose Your Path

3-Day Becoming Method® Intensive Training

🕒 3 Days

Live | In-Person Delivery

Anyone Interested in Psychotherapy

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RN-Psychotherapist Program

🕒 6–8 Months

On-line + Live 3-Day Intensive

For Registered Nurses including NPs, CNSs & PSWs

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Trauma Recovery Certificate Program

🕒 12 Months

On-line + Live 3-Day Intensive

For Nurses & Allied Health Professionals

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Careers at Becoming Institute

Come help us build a new paradigm for safety in mental health care.

We are a small, deliberate team — clinicians, faculty, operators, and partners — building training and care environments where regulated professionals can practice the full breadth of who they are, and where the people we serve are met with dignity, cultural safety, and depth of attention.

If that work calls to you, we want to hear from you — even if there is no formal posting today.

The Invitation

You may already be one of us.

Becoming Institute Inc. exists to expand access to culturally safe, trauma‑informed psychotherapy — for the regulated professionals who deliver it, and for the communities who have too often been failed by conventional systems of care.

We are nurses and psychotherapists. We are faculty, supervisors, and clinical leads. We are program designers, administrators, and digital builders. We are people who have lived close to what trauma asks of a community, and who refuse to look away.

If you carry a steady centre, a long view, and a quiet refusal of business‑as‑usual in mental health care — you may already belong here. This page is our open door.

How We Work

The new paradigm we are building.

Three commitments shape every role at Becoming Institute — clinical, faculty, or operational.

i.

Safety as a paradigm, not a checklist.

We do not measure safety by adherence to a rule. We measure it by what the people we serve are able to feel, name, and recover in our care. Every role here is in service of that standard.

ii.

Cultural and ancestral integrity.

Ubuntu, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the lived expertise of Black, racialized, and Indigenous practitioners are foundational to our methodology — not adjacent to it. We hire and train for that depth.

iii.

Operational excellence in service of care.

We hold ourselves to procurement‑grade standards: documented methodology, measurable outcomes, professional‑grade delivery. Excellence is how we honour the trust placed in us by partners and clients.

Where People Join Us

Four pathways into the work.

Not every role exists at every moment — but these are the homes we build around. If your work fits one of them, please reach out.

Pathway One

Clinical — Calm Becoming & ANCHORED

Registered Nurses, RN Psychotherapists, and Registered Psychotherapists who carry trauma‑informed depth and cultural humility into every session.

  • Nurse Psychotherapist (RN/RPN, CRPO‑eligible)
  • Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO)
  • Clinical Supervisor / Lead
  • Group facilitator (men’s, women’s, youth)

Pathway Two

Faculty — Teaching & Supervision

Course leads, content contributors, and supervisors for the Nurse Psychotherapist Certificate and the Communities of Excellence training programs.

  • Course lead / module designer
  • Clinical educator
  • Supervision faculty
  • Subject‑matter contributor

Pathway Three

Operations & Delivery

The people who hold the standard from intake to outcome — program coordination, partnership management, and the systems that make excellence repeatable.

  • Program coordinator
  • Partnership & community liaison
  • Client experience & intake
  • Administrative & finance support

Pathway Four

Communications, Content & Technology

Writers, designers, and builders who can carry our voice with care — from courseware and content to the platforms that hold our community.

  • Writer / editor (clinical, marketing, grant)
  • Course & learning designer
  • Web / app developer
  • Social media & community lead

Who Thrives Here

The qualities we look for — in every role.

Credentials matter. What matters more is whether the way you carry yourself in the work makes the people around you safer, clearer, and more able to do their best work.

i.
A steady centre. You bring presence and regulation to the room — whether the room is a session, a classroom, a planning call, or a difficult conversation.
ii.
Cultural humility, not cultural performance. You have done your own work. You know where you come from. You are willing to learn, and to be corrected, and to keep going.
iii.
Craftsmanship. You finish things. You document. You return calls. You make the work you touch better than you found it.
iv.
A long view. You are not here for a quick win. You understand that building a different paradigm of care is the work of years — and you want a seat at that table.

Current Openings

The roles we are holding open right now.

When we have contracts that ask us to grow, you will see those roles listed below.

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A Standing Invitation

Don’t see a posting that fits? We’d still love to hear from you.

Our hiring often happens in quiet seasons, in conversation, and ahead of contracts that ask us to grow. If your work sits within one of the four pathways, please send us a note — we keep a list of the people whose work and presence we want close to ours.

What to include

  • A short note (a few paragraphs is plenty) telling us which pathway calls to you and why.
  • A current CV or LinkedIn profile.
  • Any credentials, licences, or registrations relevant to the role (e.g., CRPO, CNO).
  • If you can, one example of work or care you are proud of — a project, a client outcome, a piece of writing.

Welcome

If you have read this far, you are likely already part of the work.

We read every note we receive, and we keep a quiet list of the people whose work and presence we want close to ours. Write us. Tell us where you come from. Tell us what you are building. We will write back.

Dr. Joan Samuels‑Dennis — RN, Psychotherapist, PhD
Founder & President, Becoming Institute Inc.