Midwest Region Internships

Carbon

Southern Illinois University

• Agency Types: University counseling center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Couples therapy concentration available

Carol Stream

Chicago Area Christian Training Consortium

• Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic) 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Specialized training in parent child interaction therapy (PCIT) is available.

Champaign

• Agency Types: Private general hospital, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Chicago

Adler University 

• Agency Types: Community mental health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, prison or other correctional facility, school district 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Only Adler University students are eligible to apply.

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

• Agency Types: Private general hospital, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Captain James A Lovell Federal Healthcare Center

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, Armed Forces medical center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Jewish Child and Family Services (formerly Jewish Children's Bureau)

• Agency Types: Community mental health center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Primary Care Psychology Associates 

• Agency Types: Private Outpatient clinic, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Pediatric and adult behavioral medicine tracks offered, both requiring family therapy. Couples therapy a requirement in the adult track.

The Chicago School Community Internship Consortium 

• Agency Types: Consortium (community mental health center) 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

The University of Chicago Medicine 

• Agency Types: Academic health center, medical school 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Danville

VA Illiana Health Care System 

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Lake Villa

Allendale Association 

• Agency Types: Child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Family therapy seminar meets weekly for one hour throughout the year and focuses on developing knowledge and skill in the treatment of children and adolescents from a family systems perspective. The seminar will begin with didactic instruction, including a review of related research, followed by presentations. Assessment and intervention skills are taught drawing primarily from evidence-based systems, functional family therapy and psychodynamic treatment approaches. Concepts and skills are taught in how to develop a balanced treatment alliance with the client and family members drawing from evidence-based motivational interviewing techniques. Other assessment skills taught include assessing the child/adolescent’s developmental level, formulating a DSM-5 diagnosis, identifying how the client’s presenting problem relates to family communication and behavioral patterns, mapping the child and family’s relational re-enactment pattern utilizing Allendale’s Relational Re-Enactment Systems Approach to Treatment (REStArT) and considering cultural and environmental factors to inform treatment planning. Intervention skills focus on establishing a safe therapeutic framework, intervening to interrupt the family’s relational re-enactment pattern that maintains homeostasis of the client’s presenting problem and identifying with the family what structured supports are need to maintain healthier relating in the family. Seminar members rotate to present audio tapes of therapy sessions in sequence over three weeks. Seminar members serve as the consultation group for the presenting therapist. The option to present “live” sessions is available.

Oak Brook

Shared Vision Psychological Services, Inc. 

• Agency Types: Private outpatient clinic 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Shared Vision Psychological Services offers formal training from a dynamic lens with a particular emphasis on attachment-based theories.

Palos Heights

Palos Behavioral Health Professionals

• Agency Types: Private outpatient clinic, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Ann Arbor

University of Michigan

• Agency Types: Private outpatient clinic, university counseling center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, academic health center, medical school
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: Minor rotation in couples and family intervention. Interns on this minor rotation have the opportunity to see couples utilizing the behavioral couples therapy model (BCT), behavioral family therapy for SMI and the integrative behavioral couples therapy model (IBCT). Cases may be referred for numerous presenting problems (marital distress, substance use, SPMI, etc.). Interns also provide evidence-based CBT for partner abuse. Opportunities for providing parenting skills training for veterans and family education are also available experiences on this rotation.

Battle Creek

VA Medical Center, Battle Creek

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Grand Rapids

Pine Rest

• Agency Types: Private psychiatric hospital, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Fort Wayne

Park Center, Inc.

• Agency Types: Community mental health center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: Psychology staff theoretical orientations include cognitive/behavioral, psychodynamic and family systems.

Indianapolis

National Psychology Training Consortium

• Agency Types: Consortium (Community mental health center)
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Richard L Roudebush Indianapolis VAMC

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Merrillville

Southlake Community Mental Health Center, Inc./DBA Regional Mental Health Center

• Agency Types: Community mental health center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Akron

Ohio Psychology Internship (formerly Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine/Psychology Internship Program)

• Agency Types: Consortium (prison or other correctional facility)
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Wright State University/School of Professional Psychology

• Agency Types: Child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, prison or other correctional facility, private general hospital, private outpatient clinic, state/county/other public hospital, university counseling center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Cleveland

Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center/Psychology Service 116B(W)

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: The couples and family program training experience emphasizes systems and communication interventions designed for couples and families, as well as clinical pastoral counseling and family education within an interprofessional framework. Training emphasis is given to evidence-based practices. Currently, our professionals include practitioners trained and practicing all of the VA-endorsed evidence-based practices for families and couples: behavioral family therapy (BFT), integrated behavioral couples therapy (IBCT), family education/psychoeducation through Veterans Support and Family Education (VSAFE) and VA-NAMI Family to Family Education Program Partnership. Additionally, we offer other evidence-based couples interventions derived from the work of John Gottman, strategic family therapy, emotionally focused couples therapy, and Warrior 2 Soulmate (W2SM) couples workshop. Interventions are designed to assist veterans, their partners and/or families through direct work on relationship struggles as well as family and couples counseling that assists in managing factors that can significantly impact relationship dynamics and quality, such as serious mental illness (SMI) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Attention is also given to multicultural issues, including same-sex and transgendered relationships.

Columbus

Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc.

• Agency Types: Community mental health center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy

Dayton

Dayton VA Medical Center/Mental Health Service (17P)

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: The family services rotation provides the opportunity to engage in family focused evidenced-based practice for the treatment of couples and families. This rotation includes opportunities to provide a variety of services to meet the needs of families of the seriously mentally ill to promote improved management of the mental illness and overall family functioning. It is grounded in the behavioral family therapy (BFT) model. Interventions include family crisis management, family consultation (education about mental illness, accessing care, obtaining support, goal setting, safety planning for what to do in a crisis), Support and Family Education (SAFE) programming for loved ones, short- and long-term psychoeducation-based family therapy, inpatient groups and educational workshops. This rotation also consists of opportunities in working with couples to improve their satisfaction with marital or conjugal-like relationships as well as treatment of PTSD using a couples’ modality. Interventions include cognitive behavioral conjoint therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (CBCT for PTSD) and integrative behavioral couples therapy (IBCT).

Fond du Lac

Agnesian Healthcare

• Agency Types: Private general hospital
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Madison

Mendota Mental Health Institute

• Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital, psychology department
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: Interns conduct therapy independently and as co-therapists with other members of the agency staff or the unit staff. Interns also have the opportunity to participate in staff meetings, peer supervision, case discussions and other activities at the outpatient site/setting.

University of Wisconsin

• Agency Types: Academic health center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: The child track offers a yearlong, half-day-per-week placement at the Family Training Clinic (FTC), which provides training in evidence-informed treatments for families. A didactic seminar is provided that emphasizes modern and postmodern conceptualizations of family dynamics, structural, experiential and emotion-focused interventions and a range of other topics related to families. Demonstrations of assessment interviews and clinical interventions are incorporated into the activities of this clinic. Family interventions are offered in a co-therapy structure and group supervision is provided before and after sessions.

VA Central Iowa Healthcare System

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: Major and minor rotation in couple and family therapy and includes training and supervision in evidenced-based treatments, including emotion-focused couples therapy (EFCT) and cognitive behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD (CBCT-PTSD), administration and scoring of relational assessments, group therapy work, participation in interdisciplinary team meetings and more. There are currently two residential groups for veterans: healthy relationships and parenting and a third for veterans’ support persons. Skill development will focus on learning how to provide psychotherapy from a systems perspective, the use of evidenced-based and empirically-supported family therapy models and assessment and intervention of intimate partner violence (IPV). Additionally, sex therapy assessment and intervention will be discussed and delivered based on need.

Kansas City

The Guidance Center

• Agency Types: Community mental health center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

University of Kansas Medical Center

• Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, private general hospital, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital, psychology department, state/county/other public hospital
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

VA Eastern Kansas (Leavenworth/Topeka) Healthcare System

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: Provides a “moderate training emphasis” in couple and family therapy

Larned

Larned State Hospital

• Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: Family therapy as available.

Salina

Salina Regional Health Center

• Agency Types: Private general hospital, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, private outpatient clinic, psychology department
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Wichita

Wichita Collaborative Psychology Internship Program

• Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, medical school, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital, university counseling center)
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Minneapolis

Canvas Health, formerly known as Human Services Inc. (HSI)

• Agency Types: Community mental health center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Interns in the child track complete a 12-month rotation in the Family Treatment Program, which was developed to provide a diversionary treatment for children and adolescents identified as having serious emotional disturbance (SED), who would otherwise be referred to residential treatment or are being discharged by hospitals or residential programs. Interns work intensively with families for up to six months using a variety of systemic therapies. Therapy sessions are frequently held in the families’ homes and may include multiple sessions each week. Didactics are provided on systemic family assessment, parent child interaction therapy, couples therapy and human sexuality.

Hennepin Healthcare (HCMC)

• Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital, academic health center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Child track offers training in various therapy orientations, including cognitive behavioral, family systems and parenting skills. 

Minneapolis VA Health Care System

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, academic health center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Family Therapy Training Clinic (FTTC) rotation provides training for psychology interns in assessment and treatment of couples and family-related mental health concerns. An emphasis is placed on empirically based couples therapy using integrated behavioral couples therapy (IBCT). The clinic format includes readings, didactic presentations (augmented through videotapes) and couple therapy experience. Each intern is assigned two couple therapy cases. All sessions are videotaped, and supervision occurs in a group setting. Skills acquired include couple and family assessment, case conceptualization, basic techniques and peer supervision. A rotation is also available in Family Psychoeducation, an evidence-based approach for working with individuals with serious mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, recurrent depression) and their significant others. Training in family psychoeducation models (Behavioral Family Therapy and Multifamily Group Therapy) is provided primarily through co-facilitation of multiple family group or individual family sessions.

St. Paul

Hamm Clinic

• Agency Types: Community mental health center 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy 
• Additional Information: Supervision provided in psychodynamic therapy, interpersonal relationship therapy, emotion focused couple’s therapy, family therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and multicultural therapy.

Healtheast Care System

• Agency Types: Private general hospital, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital, state/county/other public hospital 
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Columbia

Missouri Health Sciences Psychology Consortium

• Agency Types: Consortium (academic medical center, medical school, Veterans Affairs medical center)
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Springfield

National Psychology Training Consortium

• Agency Types: Consortium (community mental health center, private general hospital, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital, school district)
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Robert J. Murney Clinic at Forest Institute of Professional Psychology

• Agency Types: Community mental health center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: Supervisor backgrounds and theoretical orientations are varied, including cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic-interpersonal, family systems and primary care psychology. Exposure to empirically validated treatment models is valued and is incorporated in training and delivery of professional services.

St. Louis

St. Louis Psychology Internship Consortium

• Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, psychology department, state/country/other public hospital)
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
• Additional Information: We encourage interns to examine the efficacy of their work with their clients and to consult the research literature for guidance regarding not only which treatment approaches are best suited to particular problems, but to inform their understanding of multiple systems (e.g., family systems, organizational, cultural). 

Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology

• Agency Types: Consortium (academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, medical school, state/county/other public hospital, university counseling center)
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

VA Black Hills Health Care System

• Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
• Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy