Southern Region Internships
Full-time, predoctoral internships with a family psychology emphasis available in the southern region of the U.S.
South Atlantic
University of Delaware
(Newark, Del.)- Agency Types: University counseling center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Bay Pines
Bay Pines VA Healthcare System
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, psychology department
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: This site provides the opportunity to lead multi-family groups.
Bradenton
Centerstone Consortium
- Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Fort Lauderdale
Faulk Center for Counseling (formerly Center for Group Counseling)
(Boca Raton, Fl.)- Agency Types: Community mental health center, private outpatient clinic
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Mental Health Center of Florida Internship Program
- Agency Types: Private outpatient clinic
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Connected with ChildNet, a local Community-Based Care (CBC) lead agency for Broward and Palm Beach Counties, that manages a network of child welfare services that provide foster care, adoption and family preservation services for the more than 4,400 children in care and their caregivers. Interns will provide individual, couples and family psychotherapy in the office and in-home to children, adolescents and adults referred through ChildNet. Patients referred through ChildNet have an open dependency case in the court system and many of them are working towards the goal of reunification.
Nova Southeastern University
- Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, prison or other correctional facility, private general hospital, private outpatient clinic, school district, state/county/other public hospital)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Training available in multidimensional family therapy and medical family therapy.
Nova Southeastern University Psychology Services Center
- Agency Types: Psychology department, community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Training available in multidimensional family therapy and medical family therapy. Interns spend 25 percent of their time working within the Children, Adolescents and Families (CAFS) program.
Gainesville
North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
University of Florida Health Science Center
- Agency Types: Academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, medical school, psychology department
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Interns in the Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology Track receive training in assessment, consultation and intervention across diverse content areas in child and family clinical and health psychology. Rotations involve assessment and consultation experiences in child behavioral/emotional health and consultation involving inpatient and outpatient pediatric patients and their families.
Miami
Institute for Child and Family Health, Inc.
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Jackson Health System in affiliation with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- Agency Types: Medical school, state/county/other public hospital
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: This site provides the opportunity to lead multi-family groups.
Miami-Dade County
- Agency Types: Social services
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Orlando
Orlando VA Medical Center
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Tampa
James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
West Palm Beach
Youth Services Department, Palm Beach County
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: The intern’s clinical activities will emphasize family therapy using a brief therapy model but may include group and individual therapy, psychoeducation, parent training, psychological evaluation, consultative services and community outreach offered across community-based, office and residential settings. Each intern will complete a six-month residential rotation and a six-month outpatient rotation, which together provide a range of clinical and didactic experiences that will support interns in the development of their base of knowledge, their clinical skills and their professional identity.
Atlanta
Atlanta VA Medical Center
(Decatur, Ga.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Emory University Counseling and Psychological Services
- Agency Types: University counseling center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Emory University School of Medicine
- Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center, community mental health center, state/county/other public hospital
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Site offers a trauma track, which consists of a yearlong experience providing assessment, individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy and family therapy for women who have experienced domestic violence.
Georgia State University
- Agency Types: University counseling center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Augusta
Medical College of Georgia-Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Psychology Internship
- Agency Types: Consortium (medical school, Veterans Affairs medical center)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Child and family track provides emphasis training in preparing professional psychologists to provide services for children and their families who represent diverse populations in regard to socioeconomic, cultural, racial and ethnic characteristics. This track makes use of the following educational components: (a) providing assessment and treatment services in the MCG/AU Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic and the Children’s Hospital of Georgia; (b) participation in weekly chld, adolescent and family psychiatry interdisciplinary intakes and follow-up clinics; (c) the family therapy seminar involving didactics, live supervision and the use of an interdisciplinary reflecting team; and (d) The Child Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service that entails consultative services for the MCG/AU’s Children’s Hospital of Georgia and pediatric liaison services for pediatric specialty clinics.
VA Maryland Health Care System
(Baltimore, Md.)- Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, medical school, school district, Veterans Affairs medical center)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Opportunity to work in the Family Informed Trauma Treatment Center (FITT) Center, whose mission is to develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate family-based interventions for urban and military families to support positive outcomes for children and families who have experienced chronic trauma and stress. Rotation available as part of the Family Intervention Team (FIT). Interns can expect to master utilization of the following evidence-based family therapy practices officially endorsed and widely utilized by the VA system nationally: integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT), behavioral-couples therapy for substance use disorders (BCT-SUD) and behavioral family therapy (BFT). Live supervision available for family therapy cases. Interns also learn and co-facilitate strengthening family coping resources (SFCR), designed for families living in traumatic contexts with the goal of reducing the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related disorders in children and adult caregivers.
Asheville
Charles George VA Medical Center
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Family and couples psychotherapy is offered on a limited basis.
Boone
Appalachian State University
- Agency Types: University counseling center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- Agency Types: Medical school
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Multiple child-focused tracks give the opportunity for a variety of experiences, including the Healthy Families Durham (HFD) Program, an intensive home visiting program primarily for first-time parents with multiple risk factors. Typically, the intern also completes rotations at the UNC Horizons Program, as a co-facilitator of parenting groups and providing mother-child psychotherapy with substance-use disordered pregnant and/or parenting women. Other community sites that may be elected include the TEACCH Autism Program, where the intern participates in diagnostic and/or intervention services with children, adolescents or adults with autism spectrum disorders, and possibly Wake Medical Center, working with premature infants and their families in the perinatal unit and the follow up clinics. Parent/family therapy in the context of eating disorder treatment, crisis stabilization, and more long-term outpatient settings are available.
Charlotte
UNC-Charlotte
- Agency Types: University counseling center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Hefner VA Medical Center
(Salisbury, N.C.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Optional seminar in marriage, couples, family therapy (MCFT). Interns will initially be a co-therapist with a staff psychologist for one or two MCFT cases. As the training year progresses, interns may be paired with other trainees. The therapy sessions will be observed by other psychology and mental health staff and students as part of the training process. Feedback will be provided to the therapists by the observation team and provided to the couple/families by the therapists. Interns will have the opportunity to be a co-therapist or observer for a variety of cases, including a multi-family group.
Durham
Duke University Medical Center
- Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: The Family Studies Program and Clinic provides interns in the child clinical-general track with supervised training in family assessment and family therapy, parenting therapy and couples therapy using a live, behind-the-one-way-mirror supervision model. Supervisors and other team members observe all therapy sessions, and supervisors provide immediate bug in the eye feedback using linked computer monitors between the observation room and the therapy room. Interns also attend a weekly didactic seminar in general and specialty topics. The child clinical-trauma track is located at the Center for Child and Family Health (CCFH), a community-based, multi-disciplinary setting, which specializes in the assessment and treatment of children and families who have experienced trauma. Interns will have an opportunity to learn several trauma informed interventions (e.g., trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) and parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)). Interns will also utilize a range of treatment modalities including individual therapy with children and adolescents, family therapy, parent education, intensive in-home treatment, community-based interventions, as well as group interventions with children, adolescents and parents. Live and video-based supervision are available.
Durham VA Medical Center
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Charleston
Charleston Consortium Internship
- Agency Types: Consortium (academic health center, Veterans Affairs medical center)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: As part of the child/pediatric track, training opportunities are available in parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), the Maudsley approach, child-family traumatic stress intervention and other evidence-based interventions for youth and their families.
Colombia
WJB Dorn VAMC
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Arlington
Mid Atlantic Internship Consortium
- Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Consortium includes 11 unique sites, including United Way and Catholic Charities Child and Family Services. Interns gain experience in working with families through inpatient, home-based, outpatient, school, play therapy and foster/adoptive care services.
Chesapeake Bay Area
Veterans Affairs Medical Center Hampton Virginia
(Hampton, Va.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Supervision in outpatient mental health is available in a wide variety of treatment modalities and theoretical orientations (e.g., psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, marital/family systems therapy and specialized group therapies). This site provides the opportunity to lead multi-family groups.
Eastern Virginia Medical School
(Norfolk, Va.)- Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, private general hospital, private psychiatric hospital
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Seminar series offered on child and family interventions.
Jonesville
Southwest Virginia Psychology Doctoral Internship Consortium
- Agency Types: Consortium (university counseling center)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Because the Southwest Virginia Consortium is partially affiliated with the Counseling Psychology Program at Radford University (RU), priority for each of the three internship slots will go to RU students during Phase 1 of the match.
Salem
VA Medical Center, Salem
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Child/adolescent program offers training and experience in family, play and parent training therapies. A parenting seminar is also offered to interns to further understanding of issues relating to children, adolescents and their families.
VA Medical Center, DC
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Charleston
Charleston Area Medical Center/WVU
- Agency Types: Academic health center, medical school
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
WVU Medicine: University Healthcare
- Agency Types: Academic health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
East South Central
None at this time.
Lexington VA Medical Center (Lexington, Ken.)
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Major rotation available in outpatient couple and family therapy. Interns will provide outpatient services to veterans and family members within a family systems theoretical model. This may include learning and utilization of the following evidenced based modalities: integrative behavioral couple therapy, behavioral couple therapy for SUD, brief family consultation and behavioral family therapy. The intern functions as a full member within the family therapy program, gaining skills via independent supervised practice and co-therapy.
None at this time.
Johnson City
Frontier Health Services
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Interns in the child and adolescent track conduct intake assessments, individual therapy and family therapy.
James H. Quillen VA Medical Center
(Mountain Home, Tenn.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: A minor rotation is available in couple and family therapy. Interns work with a national consultant certified in integrated behavioral couples therapy, receiving intensive supervision either through co-therapy or review of recorded sessions. They learn to conduct a thorough assessment of couple/family functioning that informs case conceptualization and treatment planning. Common clinical issues presented by couples/families in this rotation include infidelity, post-deployment readjustment, blended family issues, sexual dysfunction, parenting problems, domestic violence and family adjustment to medical illness. In particular, interns will gain an appreciation for the complex interplay between individual psychopathology and family functioning and how family therapy can serve as an effective primary and adjunctive treatment for many different types of mental health problems.
Knoxville
Cherokee Health Systems
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Didactic training on couple and family therapy
Memphis
Memphis VA Medical Center
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: A minor rotation is available in the Family Therapy Program receives referrals from throughout the medical center and outpatient clinics. The referral problems include marital and family conflicts, sexual disorders, family disruptions due to physical or mental disorders and family violence. In their work with couples and families, interns will have the opportunity to use evidence-based intervention models, including such as emotion focused therapy, integrative behavioral couple therapy and cognitive/behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD. Interns have the option of conducting co-therapy with the director of the Family Therapy Program. Weekly family therapy seminar offers a combination of didactic instruction and experiential learning approaches is used.
University of Memphis Counseling Center
- Agency Types: University counseling center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, medical school, prison or other correctional facility, private general hospital, Veterans Affairs medical center)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Minor rotation available at the UT Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychotherapy Clinic. Although designed specifically to assist troubled children and adolescents, the emphasis is on a family approach, viewing each person as an important part of a total family system, not as an isolated individual. This reflects the belief that the family can provide the strongest support for the patient and stimulate and hasten the process of change. Supervision generally includes individual and group models as well as live supervision. Additional minor rotations are available in a child abuse and domestic violence prevention/treatment agency and a pediatric weight management clinic.
Nashville
VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Internship in Professional Psychology
- Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private psychiatric hospital, university counseling center, Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Interns in the child and adolescent track are supervised in various evidence-based protocols including cognitive behavior therapy (CBT); trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT); attachment, self-regulation and competence (ARC); child-parent psychotherapy (CPP); and parent management protocols such as parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT). Interns will also participate in a family therapy seminar, which trains professionals through in vivo supervision of family therapy sessions. Supervision includes use of videotaping, one-way observation windows, and co-therapy and consultation with staff therapists or psychologists.
West South Central
El Dorado
South Arkansas Regional Health Center
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Little Rock
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center, community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy
North Little Rock
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, medical school
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Tulane University School of Medicine (formerly Health Sciences Center)
(New Orleans, La.)- Agency Types: Medical school
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Child track available with concentrations in pediatric psychology or infant mental health. Interns also have the opportunity to participate in the Tulane Parenting Education Program (T-PEP), which provides intensive intervention for maltreated infants/young children and their caregivers.
Oklahoma City
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center/OKC VA Consortium/Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Agency Types: Consortium (academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, medical school, state/county/other public hospital, Veterans Affairs medical center)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: The OKC VAMC’s Family Mental Health major rotation offers a wide variety of services to veterans and their families/support persons. The major goals for the Family Mental Health Program rotation are for the intern to: (a) understand the rationale for intervention at the family level in addressing an individual’s symptoms, (b) become familiar with various evidence-based treatments for couples, (c) develop skills in assessing family strengths and problems and conducting family/couples therapy, (d) gain experience with family psychoeducational interventions for veterans with a mental illness/PTSD and their family members. This rotation offers couples/family therapy (offered both independently or as a co-therapist), REACH Program (a psychoeducational program for veterans living with a serious mental illness/PTSD and their family members), SAFE Program (a support and educational program just for family members of people living with PTSD/mental illness), Core 4 Communication (psychoeducational class focused on interactive skills practice to assist Veterans in improving their interpersonal communication), Couples Tune-Up (prerequisite psychoeducational class for couples who wish to pursue couples therapy; topics covered include individual wellness, communication, conflict management, and boundary setting) and Journey through Loss (psychoeducational class for veterans who have experienced the death of a loved one and adult family members who have experienced the death of their veteran).
Tulsa
Northeastern Oklahoma Psychology Internship Program/Psychology
- Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital, state/county/other public hospital, university counseling center)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Central Texas
Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
(Temple, Waco and Austin, Tex.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, medical school
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Didactic seminars offered on family/couple evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs).
Dallas
Momentous Institute
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: This site utilizes a family systems perspective with diverse clinical populations (SES, religion, ethnicity, etc.), and has an exceptional training facility including a large digital library and rooms designed/equipped for teamwork/live observation or supervision with two-way mirrors and digital taping.
VA North Texas Health Care System
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
El Paso
El Paso Psychology Internship Consortium
- Agency Types: Consortium (medical school, state/county/other public hospital, university counseling center)
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Houston
Baylor College of Medicine
- Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center, Armed Forces medical center, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital, state/county/other public hospital, Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
- Agency Types: Academic health center, medical school, state/county/other public hospital
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Didactic training offered on family therapy.
San Antonio
Brooke Army Medical Center
- Agency Types: Armed Forces medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
South Texas Veterans Health Care System
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Training offered in behavioral family therapy
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Psychodynamic track offers two six-month rotations at the Clarity Child Guidance Center, providing outpatient services, acute care, on-campus, 24-hour treatment and on-campus day treatment for children and adolescents with mental health concerns. Interns participate in psychological testing and individual, group and family therapy.