A Letter to the Potential Postdoc Who’s Searching

You’ve completed the schooling, supervision, and sessions with individuals who trusted you with their stories. And still, when you think about stepping into couples work, something in you hesitates.

It may seem like it’s too much (too emotional, too intense, too layered). You may wonder if you’re supposed to have all the answers before you even begin.

If that’s you, we want to tell you this: At Philadelphia Couples Therapy, we don’t expect you to arrive fully formed. We expect you to arrive curious, committed to excellence, and willing to grow in community. We’ve witnessed that when the right clinician is nurtured with enough support, incredible work becomes possible.

Our Team Is Built Differently

Philadelphia Couples Therapy is not a place where you’re left to figure it out on your own, but rather a place where you receive the support you need to thrive as a psychologist.

Here, you’ll join a team of doctoral-level psychologists who deeply invest in the work and one another. We value clinical rigor, transparency, and thoughtful discussion. We meet weekly for case consultation and invite some of the best minds in the field to sharpen our lenses. We bring in outside supervisors and leaders in couples therapy, like Dr. Stacy Malin, to guide and challenge us. We read, reflect, and refine.

There are four structured avenues of support built into our system

1. Weekly case conferences
2. Ongoing weekly individual supervision
3. Rotating peer consultation partnerships (often over dinner)
4. And urgent/emergency on-call supervision.

In short, we support you in your growth as a clinician and in your well-being as a person.

A Place That Feels As Good As It Is

From the moment you step into the 22nd floor of a historic building in the heart of Center City, you’ll feel the difference in our space. With views of the Delaware River, the sunlight from the large windows, the Nespresso machine steaming in the background, and your colleagues working side by side, we’ve created an intentional space made to support your best work.

Your environment should reflect the quality of care you provide. That’s why we’ve designed both our space and our systems with care, from flexible dashboards that display your compensation and PTO in real-time and a comprehensive Intranet with clear-cut processes and systems, to generous benefits, team events, high-end tools, and thoughtful swag that actually gets used (hello, Patagonia and Northface jackets, Yetis and United by Blue backpacks).

We Invest in You, Because You Matter

We know the numbers. We understand what’s typical in private practice and group settings, and we’ve built a structure that surpasses it. Our compensation is highly competitive. Our training materials are extensive. Our clinicians often say that what they’ve learned here in their first year is more than they received in graduate school.

Why? Because we’re cultivating specialists; People who leave each day feeling proud of their clinical work, people who are willing to hold complexity and still come home with energy for their personal lives. We understand that therapy can be challenging. We also know how to support you in doing it with integrity and prowess.

If You’re Still Wondering

Send us an email at Careers@PhiladelphiaCouplesTherapy.com and ask us your questions! We’re here to chat with you to see if we might be a good fit for your future professional goals.

You don’t need to have experience in couples therapy before you begin. What you do need is:

• A strong foundation in individual therapy
• The ability to sit with emotional intensity
• A desire to be a part of a collaborative, professional environment
• A heart for this work

And we’ll give you the rest. Excellence isn’t just about what you know, it’s about where you’re willing to grow. If you’re ready to grow, we’re ready to meet you.