Western region internships

Phoenix

Southwest Behavioral & Health Services
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Tuscon

Southern Arizona Psychology Internship Center (SAPIC)
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy

Boise Veterans Administration Medical Center (Boise, Id.)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Aurora

Aurora Community Mental Health Center
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: This site offers multiple tracks, including child/family. The Center offers a continuum of services to children and adults who have a concurrent developmental disability and a mental illness and also provides therapy and integrated care services in Aurora Public Schools, community medical clinics and the Colorado Refugee Center. 

University of Colorado School of Medicine (previously UCDHSC)
Agency Types: Medical school, academic health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Nine-month family therapy course available.

Colorado Springs

AspenPointe Health Services
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Treatment philosophy incorporates principles of recovery for adults and family systems for children and adolescents.

Denver

Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital, psychology department
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Colorado Psychology Internship Consortium (CO-PIC)
Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private outpatient clinic)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Community Reach Center (Formerly Adams Community Mental Health Center) (Commerce City, Colo.)
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Interns are invited to participate in clinical consultation groups available for all clinical staff, including family therapy consultation group.

University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Agency Types: Consortium (community mental health center, private outpatient clinic, university counseling center)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Child/family tracks available. At the Denver Children’s Home, all services are coupled with family therapy to resolve identified problems in the home and with interactions between the family and the child that contribute to the child’s issue(s) of focus. At the Mental Health Center of Denver, interns have the opportunity for training in systems theory, infant mental health, child parent psychotherapy, parent child interaction therapy and trauma focused cognitive behavior therapy.

VA Medical Center, Denver - Eastern Colorado Health Care System
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Family focused therapy rotation available

Montana VA Health Care System (Fort Harrison, Mont.)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System (North Las Vegas, Nev.)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, academic health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

NMVAHCS (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Agency Types: Consortium (academic health center, community mental health center, veterans affairs medical center)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Family psychology emphasis available. Interns provide couple and family therapy in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program to psychiatrically complex patients with comorbid relational and other mental health programs. Specific activities include conducting weekly intake assessments for families and couples seeking services and provision of evidence-based psychotherapy for families and couples. A primary focus of the interns’ training will be in the implementation of integrative behavioral couples therapy (IBCT). Interns may also gain experience with traditional behavioral couples therapy, strategic approach therapy and functional family therapy. Interns participate in weekly interdisciplinary treatment team meetings as a marriage and family therapy consultant, in bi-weekly couple and family case consultation meetings and in monthly didactic teleconference on couple and family topics.

Provo

Brigham Young University
Agency Types: University counseling center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Didactic training, supervised experience and consultation in couples’ therapy is an emphasis of the internship.

Wasatch Mental Health
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/family therapy

Salt Lake City

Primary Children's Hospital
Agency Types: Child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: The internship program's goal is to prepare doctoral-level interns for entry-level psychology, postdoctoral or resident positions with a child/adolescent and family focus in a variety of settings. Weekly family therapy seminar highlights systems theory utilizing a live observation team approach, review of recorded session material and group supervision of family therapy cases. Additional training in parent child interaction Therapy (PCIT) is available.

The University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute
Agency Types: Private psychiatric hospital, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, medical school, private general hospital, private psychiatric hospital, state/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Staff expertise encompasses comprehensive psychological evaluations, family/marital therapy, group therapy and individual psychotherapy. Our interns each participate in three of four possible training rotations: adult inpatient, adolescent-focused inpatient, child-focused inpatient and day treatment youth. Psychotherapy seminar includes reviewing and discussing videotaped individual, family, couples and group therapy sessions completed by the interns.

VA Salt Lake City Health Care System
Salt Lake City, UT
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

None at this time.

Anchorage

Alaska VA Healthcare System
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Offers training opportunities for family and couples therapies, including the REACH program (group therapy for couples in which one member suffers from a chronic mental illness), emotion focused therapy and integrated behavioral couples therapy.

Nome

Alaska Psychology Internship Consortium
Agency Types: Consortium (private general hospital, private outpatient clinic, state/county/other public hospital)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Los Angeles

Children's Hospital of Orange County (Orange, Calif.)
Agency Types: Children/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, academic health center, medical school
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Children's Institute, Inc.
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: There are opportunities to become certified in parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TFCBT). Children’s Institute, Inc.’s training philosophy believes that individuals should be treated in the context of their family system and greater ecological framework.

Heritage Clinic, a division of the Center for Aging Resources (Pasadena, Calif.)
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Institute for Multicultural Counseling and Education Services
Agency Types: Community mental health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, rivate outpatient clinic
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Institute for Multicultural Counseling and Education Services trains interns to integrate and apply cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic and family systems-based interventions with clients from every socioeconomic background and ethnicity. Interns have the opportunity to become certified in at least two evidence-based practices (EBPs).

Tarzana Treatment Centers (Tazarana, Calif.)
Agency Types: Community mental health center, private psychiatric hospital, state/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: This site provides the opportunity to lead multi-family groups. There are more opportunities for family therapy in the youth track; some opportunity to conduct family work in the adult track when working with mothers of infants/young children.

UCLA - Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Agency Types: Medical school
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

University of California, Irvine (Irvine, Calif.)
Agency Types: University counseling center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

VA Long Beach Healthcare System (Long Beach, Calif.)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

VA Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center (North Hills, Calif.)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Full-year practica/seminar placement options include couples/family therapy. Training is offered in integrative behavioral couples therapy (IBCT).

Palo Alto

CHAC (Community Health Awareness Council) (Mountain View, Calif.)
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Monterey County Behavioral Health Doctoral Psychology Training Program (Salinas, Calif.)
Agency Types: Community Mental Health Center
Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy
Additional Information: The Transition Age Youth (TAY) Avanza Program provides individual, family and group therapy, along with intensive case management for youth aged 16-25. The F.A.S.T. (Family Assessment Support and Treatment) Assessment Team provides comprehensive family mental health assessments and treatment to children and families involved in dependency court (it has deemed it necessary to remove the child(ren)from the home due to abuse and/or neglect issues). Attachment theory, systems perspectives, and trauma informed approaches are utilized in helping understand and conceptualize the family’s challenges, strengths, and services needed.

VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy

Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville

California Psychology Internship Consortium DSH-Coalinga Porterville Developmental Center San Quentin State Prison State Center Community College District Sutter Center for Psychiatry Psychological Services Center
Agency Types: Consortium
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

San Bernadino

Loma Linda University School of Medicine (Redlands, Calif.)
Agency Types: Medical school, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private general hospital, private outpatient clinic, private psychiatric hospital, state/county/other public hospital, university counseling center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Loma Linda VAMC (Jerry L. Pettis VA) (Loma Linda, Calif.)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Patton State Hospital (Patton, Calif.)
Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

San Diego

Sharp HealthCare
Agency Types: Private psychiatric hospital, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, private outpatient clinic, psychology department
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: This site provides the opportunity to lead multi-family groups.

VA San Diego Healthcare System/University of California, San Diego
Agency Types: Medical school, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, state/county/other public hospital, Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: The VA San Diego Family Mental Health Program provides empirically-supported couple therapy services to veteran couples. This interdisciplinary team consists of one psychologist, two postdoctoral fellows, one psychology intern and one marriage and family therapist. Interns will learn to conduct multi-session, multi-modal assessment (interviews, self-report questionnaires, behavioral observation) to inform problem formulations and treatment plans consistent with integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT) and emotionally-focused couple therapy (EFT). Interns have opportunities to act as co-therapists with other trainees as well as with more senior clinicians. Interns will attend the weekly team seminar, which includes presentations and trainings in emotionally-focused couple therapy, integrative behavioral couple therapy and cognitive-behavioral couple therapy. Presentations include didactic components as well as experiential learning strategies (e.g., video review, roleplaying). Didactic presentations on special topics in couple/family psychology (e.g., intimate partner violence) are also offered.

San Francisco

California Pacific Medical Center
Agency Types: Private general hospital, child/adolescent, ssychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, private psychiatric hospital
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Marin County Health and Human Services (San Rafael, Calif.)
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: One of the available tracks focuses on Latino family health; fluency in Spanish is a requirement. Training emphasizes strengths-based, family-oriented interventions that address effects of trauma, immigration, acculturation and socioeconomic disparities.

RAMS, Inc.
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: In addition to individual and group supervision experiences, there is an elective weekly hour-long group consultation/seminar on working with children and families.

University of California, San Francisco
Agency Types: Medical school
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

VA Medical Center, San Francisco
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: One available rotation is the family therapy clinic, which offers training in emotionally focused couple therapy and/or systemically based family therapy. Interns assess and treat two families, participate in one and a half hour weekly didactic and receive one hour weekly supervision. Cases are video recorded and recordings are used in both individual and group supervision. Interns are part of a multidisciplinary team and offer consultation to peers through group case discussion as well as participation on Reflecting Teams. This training may be taken as a component of the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rotation or as an independent minor rotation.

VA Northern California Health Care System (Martinez, Calif.)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, Armed Forces medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Honolulu

I Ola Lahui Rural Hawai'i Behavioral Health Program
Agency Types: Other
Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy

Tripler Army Medical Center
Agency Types: Armed Forces Medical Center
Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy

Kealakekua

Hawai'i Psychology Internship Consortium
Agency Types: Consortium (child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, community mental health center, prison or other correctional facility, school district)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Family intervention is offered as a minor elective (up to five hours/week).

Wianae

Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Offers child and family rotation, during which interns will work with supervisors who specialize in treating children, adolescents and their families. Interns will have the opportunity to conduct assessment with children and their family members. Interns will learn and provide evidence-based treatment for children, adolescents and their families. Interns will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of presenting concerns which may include trauma, ADHD, behavioral and academic problems, adjustment disorders and pervasive developmental disorders. Opportunities to provide couples therapy may be available.

Newberg

George Fox University/George Fox Integrated Care Internship
Agency Types: Consortium (private general hospital, private outpatient clinic)
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Didactic topics involved family therapy.

Portland

Pacific Psychology and Comprehensive Health Clinics/Psychology Training Program
Agency Types: Community mental health center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Offers a youth and family track, which provides training in the following evidence-based practices: family psychoeducation and parent training, trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, collaborative problem-solving, functional family therapy, therapeutic yoga and other mindfulness interventions, solution-focused brief therapy and strengths-based case management.

Portland VA Medical Center/Marilyn Huckans, PhD (P3MHN)
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Depending upon training needs, interests and prior
experiences, interns will have the opportunity to work with couples and/or families following
the integrated behavioral couples’ therapy (IBCT) model. Training in this area includes
supervised couples/family therapy cases as well as a psychoeducational group for families.

White City

VA Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics (SORCC)/Psychology
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: Multi-family group therapy available.

Seattle

VA Puget Sound, Seattle
Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy

Wenatchee

Columbia Valley Community Health
Agency Types: Community mental health center, child/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Additional Information: The program specializes in the brief solution focused treatment that seems to best serve the primary care setting and patient needs. However, the interns also carry some long-term therapy patients on their caseloads. The program emphasizes empirically based psychotherapies. Assessment opportunities are also available.

Yakima

National Psychology Training Consortium
Agency Types: Consortium
Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy