Mountain
Phoenix
Southwest Behavioral & Health Servicesopens in new window
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Tuscon
Southern Arizona Psychology Internship Center (SAPIC)opens in new window
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Southern Arizona VA Health Care Systemopens in new window
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy
Boise Veterans Administration Medical Centeropens in new window
(Boise, Id.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Aurora
Aurora Community Mental Health Centeropens in new window
- 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)opens in new window
- 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 Servicesopens in new window
- 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 Loganopens in new window
- Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital, psychology department
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Colorado Psychology Internship Consortium (CO-PIC)opens in new window
- 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)opens in new window
(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 Psychologyopens in new window
- 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 Systemopens in new window
- 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 Systemopens in new window
(North Las Vegas, Nev.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center, academic health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
NMVAHCSopens in new window
(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 Universityopens in new window
- 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 Healthopens in new window
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/family therapy
Salt Lake City
Primary Children's Hospitalopens in new window
- 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 Instituteopens in new window
- 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 Systemopens in new window
(Salt Lake City, UT)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
None at this time.
Pacific
Anchorage
Alaska VA Healthcare Systemopens in new window
- 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 Consortiumopens in new window
- 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 Countyopens in new window
(Orange, Calif.)- Agency Types: Children/adolescent psychiatric or pediatrics, academic health center, medical school
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Children's Institute, Inc.opens in new window
- 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 Resourcesopens in new window
(Pasadena, Calif.)- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Institute for Multicultural Counseling and Education Servicesopens in new window
- 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 Centersopens in new window
(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 Behavioropens in new window
- Agency Types: Medical school
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
University of California, Irvineopens in new window
(Irvine, Calif.)- Agency Types: University counseling center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
VA Long Beach Healthcare Systemopens in new window
(Long Beach, Calif.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
VA Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Centeropens in new window
(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)opens in new window
(Mountain View, Calif.)- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Monterey County Behavioral Health Doctoral Psychology Training Programopens in new window
(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.
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy
Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville
California Psychology Internship Consortiumopens in new window
- Agency Types: Consortium
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
San Bernadino
Loma Linda University School of Medicineopens in new window
(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)opens in new window
(Loma Linda, Calif.)- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Patton State Hospitalopens in new window
(Patton, Calif.)- Agency Types: State/county/other public hospital
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Healthopens in new window
- Agency Types: Community mental health center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
San Diego
Sharp HealthCareopens in new window
- 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 Californiaopens in new window
- 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 Centeropens in new window
- 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 Servicesopens in new window
(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.opens in new window
- 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 Franciscoopens in new window
- Agency Types: Medical school
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
VA Medical Center, San Franciscoopens in new window
- 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 Systemopens in new window
(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 Programopens in new window
- Agency Types: Other
- Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy
Tripler Army Medical Centeropens in new window
- Agency Types: Armed Forces Medical Center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes Couple/Family Therapy
Kealakekua
Hawai'i Psychology Internship Consortiumopens in new window
- 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 Centeropens in new window
- 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 Internshipopens in new window
- 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 Programopens in new window
- 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)opens in new window
- 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)/Psychologyopens in new window
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
- Additional Information: Multi-family group therapy available.
Seattle
VA Puget Sound, Seattleopens in new window
- Agency Types: Veterans Affairs medical center
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Wenatchee
Columbia Valley Community Healthopens in new window
- 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 Consortiumopens in new window
- Agency Types: Consortium
- Treatment Modalities: Includes couple/family therapy
Date created: 2018