Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory

Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training

The Kaiser Permanente Fremont Adult Psychiatry post doctoral program offers residents the opportunity to work on a close-knit multidisciplinary treatment team offering evidence based, focused and multimodal treatment. Each resident will have opportunity to complete a 12-month rotation in the Adult Mental Health track and two 6-month rotations in IOP and the Specialty Treatment Tracks during course of the training year. The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) provides treatment to adult patients presenting with acute mental health conditions in need of intensive treatment. IOP is a brief (2-4 week) program for patients stepping down from recent psychiatric hospitalization or who need increased support to avoid potential hospitalization due to increased symptom severity and risk factors. Patients attend programming three times per week and receive group therapy, psychiatric medication consultation, and individual therapy. Residents are assigned cases from a diverse population, with varied mental health needs including depression, anxiety, personality disorders, trauma, grief, life stress, bipolar disorder and at times psychotic disorders. Residents will conduct intakes, provide individual and group therapy and act as a case manager for their patients. Training in evidence-based group treatment will consist of co-facilitating groups under the supervision of licensed Adult Intensive Outpatient therapists. During this rotation, residents will carry a small caseload (typically less than 10 patients) and focus a considerable part of their clinical time working closely with patients on short-term, crisis stabilization. This rotation broadens and deepens clinical skills across all diagnoses and with a very diverse group of patients, all while working closely with a supportive multidisciplinary team. The Greater Southern Alameda Area (GSAA) offers an excellent Specialty Tracks Program designed to provide focused care for patients with moderately severe to severe symptoms. Our program spans three GSAA clinics – Fremont, Union City, and San Leandro – ensuring that residents gain comprehensive experience within the GSAA. We offer two accelerated care pathways: one focusing on depression and the other on trauma. Each pathway emphasizes evidence-based treatment, weekly feedback-informed care, and measurable patient outcomes. In the depression pathway, patients receive weekly individual therapy over the course of about eight weeks, while the trauma pathway extends to roughly twelve weeks. Patients are referred to our program from our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), regional mental health, behavioral medicine, or general adult psychiatry. The depression pathway utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and a blend of modalities for Post Partum Depression. The trauma pathway utilizes Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Written Exposure Therapy (WET). For trauma, residents will undergo a two-day CPT training and will primarily use the CPT modality. Residents will have the opportunity to work with patients from all three clinics and in both pathways. As a resident you’ll be involved in intake assessments, discerning the appropriate pathway, thoughtfully monitoring the patients’ progress, and creating treatment plans for program graduates. Caseloads range from about eight to ten weekly patients. Residents will participate in a feedback-informed care huddle and receive specialized supervision. Our holistic approach emphasizes collaboration with various teams, including primary care medicine, psychiatrists, addiction medicine, neuropsychologists, and more. This rotation not only hones your specialty skills in treating severe depression and trauma but also ensures you become adept at treating the patient holistically by collaborating across disciplines while understanding the scope of different levels of care and the corresponding symptomology.