Northeast Region Internships

New Haven

Yale University School of Medicine
Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center, community mental health center, private general hospital, private psychiatric hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Newington

Greater Hartford Clinical Psychology Internship Consortium (VA)
Agency Types: Consortium (medical school, Veterans Affairs medical center)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Child psychiatry and maternal health rotations, in particular, provide family therapy opportunities.

None at this time.

Boston

VA Boston Healthcare System
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Boston University Medical Campus/The Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology
Agency Types: Medical school
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, Mass.)
Agency Types: Academic health center, state/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Massachusetts Mental Health Center/Harvard Medical School Dept. of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Agency Types: Medical school, community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

South Shore Mental Health Center, Inc. (Quincy, Mass.)
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Offers multiple concentrations, including family-focused track, an outpatient placement with a focus on family therapy interventions and a second placement with the In Home Therapy (IHT) Program, which is a flexible support program for children and adolescents with serious emotional problems.

Leeds

Central Western Massachusetts VA Health Care System
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Springfield

Multicultural Psychology Internship Program
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Worcester

University of Massachusetts Medical School/Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital (formerly Worcester State Hospital)
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, medical school, psychology department
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Rotation offered on long-term (4-12 months) inpatient psychiatric unit, where family therapy is a significant component of the treatment.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.)
Agency Types: Academic health center, medical school, private outpatient clinic, state/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Opportunity to be trained in the Maudsley Approach to family-based treatment, parenting skills building and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT).

None at this time.

None at this time.

Trinitas Regional Medical Center (Elizabeth, N.J.)
Agency Types: Private general hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Seminars offered in family and child psychotherapies. Training supervisors work from a variety of theoretical orientations, including psychodynamic, CBT, DBT, systems, family and interpersonal approaches. All interns work with both adults and children. Interns gain experience in providing adult, child, family, and group psychotherapy and assessment. Settings include outpatient, partial hospital, inpatient, residential and school environments. Interns run adult and adolescent multifamily DBT skills groups.

Bronx

Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
Agency Types: Private general hospital, academic health center, medical school
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Three major rotations offered: an adult track, a child and adolescent track and a combined (child-adolescent-adult outpatient) track, and elective rotations include the Family Treatment and Rehabilitation Program (FT/R), which provides comprehensive child-centered, family-focused and strengths based services to address the safety and well-being of children and families impacted by a range of challenging family situations, including mental health and/or substance abuse concerns, domestic violence, trauma and poverty.
Intense supervision (5-7 hours per week) is offered using a variety of different theoretical orientations, including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, integrative, family/systems and lifespan developmental approaches. In addition, intern seminars and departmental Grand Rounds run throughout the year and account for at least 4-5 hours per week of the interns' time. Interns receive training in Trauma-Focused CBT, parent management skills, play therapy, DBT multi-family skills training and a mentalization-based parenting group.

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Didactics and supervision provided in play therapy, parent behavior management training and family system treatment approaches.

North Bronx Healthcare Network: Jacobi Medical Center/North Central Bronx Hospital
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Interns receive approximately one hour of individual supervision for individual psychotherapy patients and one hour of supervision for family therapy and groups. Groups may be co-led with another trainee or staff member. The clinical orientation of the staff is wide-ranging and includes psychodynamic, relational, CBT, DBT, supportive and family systems approaches. There are opportunities to receive training in psychodynamic play therapy and to participate in the Family Advocacy Program for children newly identified as physically or sexually abused).

Brooklyn

Maimonides Medical Center
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: On the inpatient unit, interns learn to identify particular family crises or dynamics that may have contributed to patients’ hospitalizations and will assist in preparing families for the return of the hospitalized patient. On the child/adolescent outpatient placement, training is provided in play and family therapy. There are also opportunities for long-term family therapy, offering interns an opportunity to work in depth with patients and to utilize the therapeutic techniques under close supervision that they have been studying.

VA Medical Center, Brooklyn Campus of the NY Harbor Healthcare System/Psychology Service 116B
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Woodhull Medical Center/Psychological Services, Room 5A-12
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Training supervisors work from a variety of theoretical orientations, including psychodynamic, CBT, family systems, multicultural and interpersonal perspectives and offer interns supportive supervision and look to enhance professional development.

Canadaigua

Canandaigua VA Medical Center
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

East Meadow

Nassau University Medical Center
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Internship emphasizes training in the treatment of Axis II disorders and severely and persistently mentally ill patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Site provides an integrative orientation with emphasis on a psychodynamic approach.

Elmhurst

Mt. Sinai Services/Elmhurst Hospital Center
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital, child/adolescent psychiatric of pediatrics, community mental health center, medical school, psychology department
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Two tracks are available, adult psychology and child and adolescent psychology. Interns audio/videotape their outpatient therapy cases for utilization in therapy supervision. Theoretical orientations of psychology faculty include psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, integrative and family systems perspectives.

Montrose

VA Hudson Valley Health Care System, Montrose Campus/Mental Health Care Line 116B
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

New York

AHRC New York City
Agency Types: Community mental health
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Program focuses on training psychologists in the evaluation and treatment of developmentally disabled individuals (ID,ASD. TBI, CP) and their families in multiple disciplinary outpatient and day program settings. Population served spans the entire life span and a wide range of DSM-5 diagnostic entities.

Baruch College, City University of New York
Agency Types: University counseling center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Agency Types: Private general hospital, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, medical school, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital, state/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: The internship offers two training tracks, one specializing in work with adults (outpatient and inpatient) and one specializing in work with children and adolescents (outpatient only). All interns participate in a core curriculum of courses, clinical rotations and individual supervision.

Hamilton-Madison House Inc.
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Interns provide a wide variety of clinical services, including couple and family therapy, to clients presenting with severe psychopathology and chronic mental illness, substance abuse, trauma, sexual abuse, health concerns, disabilities, life and work challenges and sexual identity/gender issues.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Agency Types: Private general hospital, academic health center, medical school
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Lenox Hill Hospital
Agency Types: Private general hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: A weekly family therapy seminar focuses on the acquisition of practical skills through the introduction of the fundamentals of theory and practice. Interns are supervised in performing on-going assessment, refining hypotheses and developing treatment plans and tailoring interventions based on these systemic hypotheses. The therapeutic use of self and multi- generational approaches will also be highlighted. Staff specialize in one or more treatment modalities, including CBT, CBT for psychosis, DBT, IPT, TFP and relational, interpersonal, ego-psychological, attachment-based and mindfulness-based psychodynamic orientations. Interns receive six or more hours per week of supervision, with additional supervision available as needed.

Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center
Agency Types: Academic health center, medical school, private general hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Year-long multicultural family therapy seminar offered, which covers theories and techniques of family therapy, informed by relational, structural and strategic approaches, attachment theory and the cultural context of couple and family therapy. Three 4-month rotation system includes one elective, adult inpatient and child outpatient rotations. Didactics, case conferences and extensive supervision provided.

Mount Sinai Hospital
Agency Types: Academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric of pediatrics, community mental health center, medical school, private general hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Interns choose between a range of elective intervention experiences, including the Teen Parent Program, the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Elective, the Behavioral Health-Primary Care Integration Elective and the Integrated Transgender Healthcare Service. Weekly didactics focus on topics related to child, adolescent and young adult healthcare and culturally competent practice. Interns receive, at minimum, two hours of individual supervision and four hours of group supervision per week and also supervise a psychology extern.

New York University - Bellevue Hospital Center
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital, academic health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: The child and adolescent psychology track operates in collaboration with the NYU Child Study Center, which emphasizes training in empirically-based, cognitive-behavioral interventions with children and families. The Family Studies Program (FSP) is the family/couples therapy training program and clinical service at the NYU Child Study Center, but interns may conduct family therapy at either the NYU Child Study Center or Bellevue Hospital Center. The clinical population includes traditional as well as non-traditional families and couples. Interns who participate in family therapy gain didactic and theoretical instruction as well as direct and indirect clinical experience. Interns may participate as members of treatment teams that include advanced trainees from the fields of psychology, psychiatry and social work under the supervision of two senior supervisors. Interns will have the opportunity to be the primary therapist or co-therapist on a case as well as a member of the observing team for their colleagues’ cases. Sessions are conducted in front of a one-way mirror, and live supervision transpires as the sessions occur, providing immediate feedback to the therapist via telephone call-ins during the session, inter-session conferences with supervisors and colleagues and occasional co-therapy with a supervisor. As team members, interns actively participate in their colleagues’ cases through pre and post-session discussion and the reflecting team process. The theoretical orientation of the family program is systemic at base but integrative and collaborative as it incorporates new developments in the field. A general orientation to family therapy theory and technique is provided to all interns through scheduled seminars early in the year.

New York University Langone Medical Center
Agency Types: Psychology department, medical school
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: The program incorporates aspects of clinical, health, neuropsychology and family systems theory. Family Therapy seminar includes extensive series of didactics and experiential exercises that include the history and theory of multiple family therapy approaches, practical case studies and role-playing. The seminar focuses on treating families in a clinical and a medical/rehabilitation setting. The interns will present clinical cases during the year.

New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center
Agency Types: Medical school
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Opportunity to run parent training groups

St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center
Agency Types: Private general hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: The internship consists of child and adult tracks, which share a common integrationist approach. Seminars and didactic courses include modules on child psychopathology, systems theory and family therapy. An integrative treatment approach, utilizing psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, family-systems, ethno-cultural, developmental, medical model and other perspectives is emphasized. Supervision may include audio or video recording, one-way mirror observation and consultation (i.e., for family therapy) and/or process notes. Supervisors may also join sessions as part of supervision. In their outpatient psychiatry clinic experience, they receive a minimum of five to six hours of individual, group and family supervision. Interns also participate in clinical team meetings, staff meetings, and case conferences, throughout the week

Rochester

Rochester Institute of Technology-CHST Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program
Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, state/county/other public hospital)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Stony Brook

Stony Brook University Consortium Internship Program (SBU-CIP)
Agency Types: Consortium
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Syracuse

SUNY Upstate Medical University
Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Two tracks are available, clinical-adult and clinical-child. As part of their training, interns have the opportunity to gain experience and knowledge in family, systems and sex therapy.

White Plains

Westchester Jewish Community Services/Psychology Department
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Multiple, tailored rotations per intern's interest and rotation need, including individual/family/group therapy, assessment (psychoeducation and forensic), school-based clinics, co-located clinical services in primary care settings, etc. One day a week is set aside for supervision and didactics.

Bethlehem

Lehigh University/University Counseling and Psychological Services
Agency Types: University counseling center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Coatesville

Coatesville VA Medical Center/Psychological Services (116B)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Training provided in family/systems level intervention and behavioral family therapy.

Danville

Geisinger Medical Center/Department of Psychiatry
Agency Types: Academic health center, medical school, private general hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Exton

Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems/Psychology
Agency Types: Private Outpatient clinic, community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Family therapy offered on child/adolescent rotation.

Hershey

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center/Psychiatry
Agency Types: Academic health center, community mental health center, medical school, private general hospital, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

WellSpan Philhaven Hospital (Formerly Philhaven)/WellSpan Philhaven Psychology Department (Mt. Gretna, Penn.)
Agency Types: Private psychiatric hospital, private outpatient clinic
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Philadelphia

Chestnut Hill College Internship Consortium/Department of Professional Psychology
Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, prison or other correctional facility, private outpatient clinic, university counseling center)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Integrated behavioral couple therapy
Additional Information: A predoctoral psychology internship focused on military veterans; couple therapy is a year-long, outpatient training rotation and includes a five month seminar in couple therapy and weekly individual supervision.

Friends Hospital/Psychology
Agency Types: Private psychiatric hospital, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Involvement of the family whenever possible is emphasized to promote support for the consumer’s recovery and re-integration into the community and is centered upon a holistic philosophy.

Immaculata University Psychology Internship Consortium/Psychology and Counseling (Immaculata, Penn.)
Agency Types: Consortium (academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic, university counseling center)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Non-Immaculata applicants may participate in Phase II matching and during the post-match vacancy service.

Intercommunity Action, Inc./Behavioral Health
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Temple University/Tuttleman Counseling Services
Agency Types: University counseling center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Mainly opportunities for couples’ therapy

University of Pennsylvania/Counseling and Psychological Services
Philadelphia, PA
Agency Types: University counseling center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Pittsburgh

Allegheny General Hospital/Psychiatry
Agency Types: Private general hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Opportunities for family therapy and parenting skills training.

University of Pittsburgh/Counseling Center
Agency Types: University counseling center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

West Reading

Reading Hospital/Center for Mental Health
Agency Types: Private general hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

York

WellSpan Philhaven CBT
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy