LACDMH at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Psychology Postdoctoral Training Program
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Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA, California
Starts on Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Applications due Thursday, January 15, 2026
This training experience will NOT follow the APPIC Selection Standards with Common Hold Date (CHD) and may not allow applicants to hold offers until the CHD. Applicants may need to respond to an offer for this position prior to completing interviews or knowing their standing with other positions.
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 of 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
The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LAC DMH) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (HUMC) offers an APA-accredited Traditional Practice Postdoctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.
The APA-accredited postdoctoral fellowship is funded through and sponsored by LAC DMH, housed on the campus of a publicly funded teaching hospital, and academically affiliated with the Division of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at HUMC. All fellowship positions are a part of the LAC DMH Training Program. Applicants to the Training Program are required to have completed an APA-accredited internship and have graduated from an APA-accredited program in Clinical or Counseling Psychology all by August 31st of the respective fellowship training year being applied to.
The APA-accredited fellowship program does not participate in the APPIC Common Hold Date (CHD).
The APA-accredited program offers training opportunities in short-term and long-term therapy with individuals, families, and/or groups with an emphasis on evidence-based practices (EBPs). Cultural humility, diversity, equity, inclusivity, intersectionality, and accountability are also emphasized. Competency-based training is provided by the fellowship program and fellows are evaluated using the core training program’s competency-based evaluation tool across three time periods (baseline, mid-year, and year-end).
Training program requirements include four hours of supervision (including two hours of individual, scheduled, face-to-face), participation in a weekly training program didactics, presentation of a case conceptualization, and completion of a research/scholarly project. Courses required for California licensure are provided to fellows through LAC DMH as available.
Information for the APA-accredited Traditional Practice Program in Clinical Psychology can be found at: Postdoctoral Fellowship Program – Harbor-UCLA Psychology Training Program.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Other
- APPIC Membership
- Yes
- APA Accredited
- Yes
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Psychology
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Astrid Reina, PhD
- Contact Email
- areina@dmh.lacounty.gov
- Contact Phone
- 424-306-5738
- Virtual Interviews
- Virtual Only
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 4
- Number of Positions
- 2
- Applications recieved last year
- 0
- Accepts Int'l Students
- Stipend
- $84000
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- No
- Estimated offer date
- Thursday, January 29 2026
- Created Date
- Tuesday, October 25 2016
- Research opportunities
- Research/scholarly project required.
- Application Instructions
- Please refer to our website: http://www.harboruclapsychology.org
This record was last updated on Tuesday, December 30, 2025
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