Internships: Midwest West North Central

Kansas State University 

Location

1105 Sunset Ave., Room 101, Manhattan, KS 66502

Contact

Kodee Walls, PhD, LP, Interim Training Director

Setting

College/university counseling center

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Types of trainees

• Masters level practicum/advanced practicum (MA, MSW, etc.)
• Doctoral level practicum/advanced practicum (PhD, PsyD, etc.)
• Doctoral internship
• Postdoctoral

Approximate percentage of group training of staff

• Staff has graduate training in group therapy: 90%
• Staff has earned CE credits/courses in group therapy: 80%
• Staff has taken AGPA Group Principles course: 10%

Approximate percentage of staff that have run at least one psychotherapy group each year

• Masters level practicum/advanced practicum (MA, MSW, etc.): 50%
• Doctoral internship: 100%
• Licensed staff: 80%

About the program’s groups and training

• Approximate number of groups facilitated on site each week: 6-10
• Levels of care offered to clients: Outpatient: brief
• Groups available for trainees to lead/co-lead: Structured, manualized treatment; psychotherapy/process; mindfulness/meditation/relaxation; psychoeducational
• Hours of group leadership acquired during training: 48
• Average length of groups: Semester
• Theoretical orientations: Interpersonal process, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, group as a whole, systems centered therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy
• Training formats: Didactic seminars, experiential seminars, group supervision of group therapy, individual supervision of group therapy
• Can a trainee lead a group independently (with supervision)? Yes
• Trainees co-lead groups with: Senior staff or another trainee, depending on needs
• Supervision types: Direct observation of supervising clinician (e.g., trainee leading with senior staff); feedback from a process observer

Salina Regional Health Center 

Location

730 Holly Lane, Salina, KS 67401

Contact

Claudia Canales, PhD, Director of Clinical Training

Setting

Hospital system, outpatient setting

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Types of trainees

• Doctoral internship

Approximate percentage of group training of staff

• Staff has graduate training in group therapy: 10%
• Staff has earned CE credits/courses in group therapy: 60%
• Staff has taken AGPA Group Principles course: 80%

Approximate percentage of staff that have run at least one psychotherapy group each year

• Masters level practicum/advanced practicum (MA, MSW, etc.): 80%
• Doctoral internship: 100%
• Licensed staff: 80%

About the program’s groups and training

• Approximate number of groups facilitated on site each week: 1-5
• Levels of care offered to clients: Inpatient or residential, outpatient: brief, outpatient: long-term
• Groups available for trainees to lead/co-lead: Recreational; psychotherapy/process; mindfulness/meditation/relaxation; theme/topic specific; psychoeducational
• Hours of group leadership acquired during training: 312
• Average length of groups: Semester, on-going, single session/hospital group therapy
• Theoretical orientations: Interpersonal process, psychodynamic, modern analytic, cognitive behavioral
• Training formats: Didactic seminars, experiential seminars, group supervision of group therapy
• Can a trainee lead a group independently (with supervision)? Yes
• Trainees co-lead groups with: Senior staff, another trainee
• Supervision types: Direct observation of supervising clinician (e.g., trainee leading with senior staff); direct observation: video-recording
• Additional information: This program provides trainees the opportunity to lead different groups, depending on the needs and structure in place. Once a week, they are able to lead an inpatient group in an acute hospital setting, which varies week by week according to the milieu. For nine months, they carry out a close, interpersonal process group, which meets once per week for two clinical hours. In addition to this, the trainees are able to lead two out of three intensive outpatient psychotherapy (IOP) groups per week. The organization allows trainees funds for their learning, so past interns worked with AGPA to gain scholarships and used their Salina Regional funds to attend their yearly conference.

Canvas Health

Location

7066 Stillwater Blvd. N., Oakdale, MN 55128

Contact

Nicole Shackelford, PsyD, LP, Lead Clinical Psychologist and Director of Psychology Training

Setting

Community mental health center (CMHC)

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Types of trainees

• Doctoral internship
• Postdoctoral

Approximate percentage of group training of staff

• Staff has graduate training in group therapy: 10%
• Staff has earned CE credits/courses in group therapy: 40%

Approximate percentage of staff that have run at least one psychotherapy group each year

• Doctoral internship: 100%
• Postdoctoral: 30%
• Licensed staff: 100%

About the program’s groups and training

• Approximate number of groups facilitated on site each week: 6-10
• Levels of care offered to clients: Partial/intensive outpatient (IOP)/day treatment, outpatient: brief, outpatient: long-term
• Groups available for trainees to lead/co-lead: Structured, manualized treatment; other: Linehan-Adherent DBT, IMR
• Hours of group leadership acquired during training: 65-408
• Average length of groups: On-going
• Theoretical orientations: Cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral therpay
• Training formats: Group supervision of group therapy, individual supervision of group therapy
• Can a trainee lead a group independently (with supervision)? Yes
• Trainees co-lead groups with: Senior staff, another trainee
• Supervision types: Direct observation of supervising clinician (e.g., trainee leading with senior staff)

Headway Emotional Health Services 

Location

6425 Nicollet Ave. S., Richfield, MN 55423

Contact

Lauren Kim-Bae

Setting

Community mental health center (CMHC)

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Types of trainees

• Masters level practicum/advanced practicum (MA, MSW, etc.)
• Doctoral level practicum/advanced practicum (PhD, PsyD, etc.)
• Doctoral internship

Approximate percentage of group training of staff

• Staff has graduate training in group therapy: 100%
• Staff has earned CE credits/courses in group therapy: 20%

Approximate percentage of staff that have run at least one psychotherapy group each year

• Masters level practicum/advanced practicum (MA, MSW, etc.): 30%
• Doctoral level practicum/advanced practicum (PhD, PsyD, etc.): 40%
• Doctoral internship: 100%
• Postdoctoral: 100%
• Licensed staff: 20%

About the program’s groups and training

• Approximate number of groups facilitated on site each week: 6-10
• Levels of care offered to clients: Outpatient: brief
• Groups available for trainees to lead/co-lead: Structured, manualized treatment; psychotherapy/process; theme/topic specific; psychoeducational
• Hours of group leadership acquired during training: 52-100
• Average length of groups: Quarter, on-going
• Theoretical orientations: Cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral therapy, re-decision/solution-oriented
• Training formats: Didactic seminars, experiential seminars, training groups (trainee is a member of an experimental learning setting), group supervision of group therapy, individual supervision of group therapy
• Can a trainee lead a group independently (with supervision)? Yes
• Trainees co-lead groups with: Either with a senior staff or another trainee, depending on needs
• Supervision types: Direct observation of supervising clinician (e.g., trainee leading with senior staff); direct observation: through a one-way mirror; feedback from a process observer
• Additional information: The IMPACT program group is a group therapy format for adolescents who have a sexual offense on their record. It gives adolescents an opportunity to learn boundaries and appropriate behaviors in a setting with other adolescents.

North Memorial Health – University of St. Thomas

Location

3366 Oakdale Ave. N., Suite 315, Robbinsdale, MN 55422

Contact

Stephanie Pituc, PhD, LP, Training Director

Setting

Hospital

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Types of trainees

• Doctoral level practicum/advanced practicum (PhD, PsyD, etc.)
• Doctoral internship

Approximate percentage of group training of staff

• Staff has graduate training in group therapy: 70%
• Staff has earned CE credits/courses in group therapy: 30%
• Staff has taken AGPA Group Principles course: 10%

Approximate percentage of staff that have run at least one psychotherapy group each year

• Doctoral level practicum/advanced practicum (PhD, PsyD, etc.): 100%
• Doctoral internship: 100%
• Licensed staff: 80%

About the program’s groups and training

• Approximate number of groups facilitated on site each week: 31 or more
• Levels of care offered to clients: Inpatient or residential, partial/intensive outpatient (IOP)/day treatment, outpatient: brief, outpatient: long-term
• Groups available for trainees to lead/co-lead: Structured, manualized treatment; psychotherapy/process; support; mindfulness/meditation/relaxation; theme/topic specific; psychoeducational
• Hours of group leadership acquired during training: 120
• Average length of groups: Semester, quarter, single session/hospital group therapy
• Theoretical orientations: Interpersonal process, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral therapy, mind-body medicine
• Training formats: Didactic seminars, individual supervision of group therapy
• Can a trainee lead a group independently (with supervision)? Yes
• Trainees co-lead groups with: Senior staff, another trainee or either with a senior staff or trainee, depending on needs
• Supervision types: Direct observation of supervising clinician (e.g., trainee leading with senior staff); direct observation: through a one-way mirror

Center for Behavioral Medicine

Location

1000 E. 24th St., Kansas City, MO 64108

Contact

Coral Munoz, PsyD, Training Director

Setting

Hospital

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Types of trainees

• Doctoral level practicum/advanced practicum (PhD, PsyD, etc.)
• Doctoral internship

Approximate percentage of group training of staff

• Staff has graduate training in group therapy: 100%
• Staff has earned CE credits/courses in group therapy: 20%

Approximate percentage of staff that have run at least one psychotherapy group each year

• Doctoral level practicum/advanced practicum (PhD, PsyD, etc.): 100%
• Doctoral internship: 100%
• Licensed staff: 50%

About the program’s groups and training

• Approximate number of groups facilitated on site each week: 11-20
• Levels of care offered to clients: Inpatient or residential
• Groups available for trainees to lead/co-lead: Recreational, structured, manualized treatment; psychotherapy/process; support; mindfulness/meditation/relaxation; theme/topic specific; psychoeducational; diversity related (sexual orientation, gender, race or ethnicity based, etc.); other: highly flexible
• Hours of group leadership acquired during training: 50-150, depending on trainees’ interest
• Average length of groups: Semester, on-going
• Theoretical orientations: Cognitive behavioral, acceptance and commitment, dialectical behavioral therapy
• Training formats: Didactic seminars, experiential seminars, training groups (trainee is a member of an experimental learning setting), individual supervision of group therapy
• Can a trainee lead a group independently (with supervision)? Yes
• Trainees co-lead groups with: Either with a senior staff or trainee, depending on their needs
• Supervision types: No observation, based on oral or written report by trainees
• Additional information: This program takes place in a forensic setting with diversity in diagnoses represented in the population (psychotic spectrum, mood disorders, personality disorders, developmental disorders, intellectual disability, cognitive disorders). This program offers high flexibility in terms of the type of group that can be implemented.

Black Hills VA

Location

113 Comanche R., Fort Meade, SD 57741

Contact

Kyle Lythgoe, PsyD, Training Director

Setting

Vetarans Administration

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Types of trainees

• Doctoral internship

Approximate percentage of group training of staff

• Staff has graduate training in group therapy: 30%
• Staff has earned CE credits/courses in group therapy: 10%

Approximate percentage of staff that have run at least one psychotherapy group each year

• Masters level practicum/advanced practicum (MA, MSW, etc.): 30%
• Doctoral level practicum/advanced practicum (PhD, PsyD, etc.): 70%
• Doctoral internship: 100%
• Postdoctoral: 70%
• Licensed staff: 50%

About the program’s groups and training

• Approximate number of groups facilitated on site each week: 20-30
• Levels of care offered to clients: Inpatient or residential, outpatient: brief, outpatient: long-term
• Groups available for trainees to lead/co-lead: Psychotherapy/process; support; psychoeducational
• Hours of group leadership acquired during training: 150-180
• Average length of groups: Quarter, on-going
• Theoretical orientations: Interpersonal process, cognitive behavioral, acceptance and commitment
• Training formats: Didactic seminars, experiential seminars, individual supervision of group therapy
• Can a trainee lead a group independently (with supervision)? Yes
• Trainees co-lead groups with: Senior staff, another trainee
• Supervision types: Direct observation of supervising clinician (e.g., trainee leading with senior staff); no observation, based on oral or written report by trainees

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