Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Lepage Associates Postdocoral Training In Clinical & Forensic Psychology

Lepage Associates Psychological & Psychiatric Services
Durham, North Carolina

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Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training

This training experience is a planned and programmed sequence of training that aims to ensure preparation for advanced practice rather than one that is focused on providing supervised hours for licensure. Yes

This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities. Yes

This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience. Yes

This training experience is administered by a doctoral-level licensed psychologist who directs and organizes the training experience and its resources, is responsible for the selection of postdocs, and monitors and evaluates the goals and activities of the experience. Yes

This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.   Yes

This training experience includes regularly scheduled structured educational activities that help postdocs its defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities. Yes

This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures. Yes

This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training. Yes

Apply now for this competitive site! Lepage Associates is a very unique postdoc for clinical and/or forensic psychology in an outpatient private practice! It is one of very few such fellowships done in the comfort of a private practice setting (versus psychiatric hospitals, community clinics, or prisons), that is also a multi-specialty practice allowing opportunities, based on your interests, to work with all ages, all diagnoses, and all courts (civil, family, and criminal) in therapy and/or a broad array of evaluations. Lepage Associates is also one of the only sites with broad flexibility, where due to the multi-specialty format you can be trained and mentored in nearly any aspect of clinical or forensic psychology. Visit our website to see our breadth! Lastly, our postdoc salaries are typically among the highest offered, our weekly Didactic Series shows our commitment to depth in training, and we assist fellows with EPPP preparation. Most of our postdocs stay on to longer term employment with us due to these pluses as well as our dedication to employee satisfaction!

Celebrating over 20 years serving the NC Triangle and surrounding areas, Lepage Associates Solution-Based Psychological & Psychiatric Services is a well-established and well-known mental health services group. For over two decades we have provided therapy and testing for all ages, serving hundreds of clients per month and thousands over the years, and have also regularly spoken locally, statewide, and nationally. Lepage Associates is a highly recognized name in mental health. While our main base has been Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill and the surrounding cities as far as a 60-mile radius, we are also known and have served clients from Greensboro, Greenville, Charlotte, and southern Virginia, as well as throughout the United States for forensic/court cases. We began hiring postdoctoral students in 2007, striving yearly to improve our postdoc program and experience.

Our Mission & Our Vision:Our Mission: We work with clients to find positive, practical solutions to life’s challenges and achieve their goals.

Our Vision: To provide the highest quality psychological and psychiatric services to clients of all ages and backgrounds by working as a collaborative team of professionals.

Mission of the Post-Doctoral Training: To foster the development of competent, professional clinical and forensic psychologists who are ready to transition to private practice or any other clinical or forensic setting upon completion of the fellowship year.

In our setting all facets of clinical psychology are present: therapy for all ages, evaluations for all ages, and consultation. Thus ours is a very well-rounded training experience. You can try out various niche areas to see what you like as you prepare for your long-term career path. Additional experiences available if you are interested include research, writing for public education, and community outreach to include public speaking.

Lepage Associates is a supervision-rich environment. Individual supervisors from a variety of specialty areas are available for 1-1 supervision, weekly group supervision includes the same variety of specialists, and impromptu supervision naturally occurs in this type of group private practice setting. In addition, since we work some cases as a team, supervision occurs during those team cases as well.

Lepage Associates is a unique advanced clinical placement in that it is in a private practice setting whereas most post doc placements are in organizations such as college counseling centers, community mental health clinics, prisons, hospitals, etc. Private practice post docs are extremely rare. It is a unique advanced forensic placement in that it is in a private practice setting whereas most forensic placements are in the criminal justice system such as prisons or psych wards. In our setting all facets of forensic psychology are present: family law, civil, and criminal. There is wide breadth and depth in the types of cases and experiences a postdoc can be involved in and learn from. We provide the highest level clinical and forensic psychology training while also showing the post-doc how to create a successful private practice if they want, the latter a skill that is rarely to never covered in training programs. For postdocs who are interested in eventually opening their own private practice, Lepage Associates has a unique 6-month launching format to assist with this endeavor.

Please download and read our full Brochure from our website for in-depth information on all facets of the Lepage Associates postdoc. You can find it on our website JOBS page: https://lepageassociates.com/jobs/

https://www.lepageassociates.com

Additional Information

Agency Type: Private Practice Clinic
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: No
Recognized Specialty: Clinical Psychology
Other Emphasis: OVERALL: Psychotherapy and psychological testing for all ages. OTHER SPECIALTY: Forensics.
Research Time: Less than 25%
Training Director: Dr. Tina Lepage
Contact Email: tlepage@lepageassociates.com
Contact Phone: 919-572-0000
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 4
Number of Positions: 2
Applications recieved last year: 45
Accepts Int'l Students
Stipend: $60,000
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
Created Date: Friday, July 1 2016
Unfilled Positions: 2
Fringe Benefits: Generally we are able to offer our postdocs full-time employment upon completion of the postdoc, so postdocs enjoy stability knowing they won't have to job search again after the postdoc. In addition to health care and vacation and sick leave, there are 8 paid holidays annually, flex time, a matching retirement program, and numerous supplemental benefits (such as life insurance, pet insurance, etc.). Lepage Associates also hosts and pays for quarterly social events (attendance is optional), and continuing education, as well as provides an EPPP preparation group led by a senior psychologist.
Additional Comments: Days and weeks are a combination of face to face clinical work to include psychotherapy and evaluations, individual and group supervision, and didactic involvements. We see clients of all ages so the postdoc has the opportunity to be trained with all ages if they wish (it is not necessary to work with all ages). We have a comprehensive Testing Center so the post doc can be trained in a wide variety of psychoeducational, psychological, and forensic testing, again, according to interest.
Application Instructions: Application: Email Dr. Lepage letter of interest and CV. NOTE START DATE is very flexible and the date above is very flexible; we have started post docs throughout the summer (June-August) and early fall, as well as some at more random times during the year. Please apply and tell us what your ideal start date is! (Most postdocs start the day after Labor Day.) Interview: The candidate does interviews with various clinicians on site one day, and we have ample time for asking us questions. They are also given a tour of the main office in Durham which is where most post docs work, and have lunch with staff to get to know people in a more casual setting and get a better sense of our culture. We prefer in-person interviews as fit is so important to us and we feel we get a better sense of the candidate, and them of us, in person. Given that a great fit, positive culture, and employee satisfaction and happiness are so important to us, many of our post docs have stayed on as employees for several years following their post doc!

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