Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Medical College of Georgia/Augusta University - DBT & ACT Fellowship

Augusta University
Augusta, GA, Georgia

Starts on Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Applications due Monday, January 12, 2026

This training experience is not an APPIC Member program and is not APA Accredited. Applicants should be aware that this training experience has not undergone a formal external quality review process.

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 Psychology Division of the Department of Psychiatry & Health Behavior is pleased to offer a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The fellowship focuses on advanced clinical training in evidence-based approaches to problems of emotion dysregulation, suicide and self-injury, and substance abuse. The fellow will have opportunities to work with a broad range of clinical populations, such as patients with mood/anxiety disorders, PTSD and other trauma-related problems, borderline personality disorder, substance use disorders, and chronic medical illnesses. The fellow will work within our comprehensive outpatient Dialectical Behavior Therapy program, coordinating referrals/intakes, providing individual DBT to adults and adolescents, leading and/or co-leading adult skills groups and multifamily groups, and participating in the weekly DBT consultation team. The fellow will also have the opportunity for training and supervision in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and other behavioral therapies. Specific clinical experiences will be determined by fellow interest/training needs and funding sources. Additional training experiences may include providing didactics and supervision for psychiatry trainees and psychology interns. The fellow will have shared didactics/seminars with other psychology postdoctoral fellows. The research activities can include research endeavors designed and implemented by the fellow, as well collaborative research with Medical College of Georgia/Augusta University faculty.

https://www.augusta.edu/mcg/psychiatry/fellowship_training/american_psychological_assoc_training/dbtandactpsychologyfellowship/index.php

Additional Information

Agency Type: Medical School/Health Science Center
APPIC Membership: No
APA Accredited: No
Other Emphasis: DBT; ACT; Dialectical Behavior Therapy; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Research Time: Less than 25%
Training Director: Amy House, Ph.D.
Contact Email: ahouse@augusta.edu
Contact Phone: 706-721-6710
Virtual Interviews: Strongly Preferred
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 45
# of Licensed Supervisors: 3
Number of Positions: 1
Applications recieved last year: 5
Accepts Int'l Students
Stipend: $58,656
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: Yes
Estimated offer date: Monday, February 2 2026
Created Date: Tuesday, January 15 2019
Fringe Benefits: The position offers a range of fringe benefits offered to all Augusta University employees. More details can be found at the following web address: https://www.augusta.edu/hr/university/university_benefits/index.php
Research opportunities: The fellow will have 20% protected scholarly activity time (one day per week). The scholarly activities can include research endeavors designed and implemented by the fellow, as well collaborative research with Medical College of Georgia/Augusta University faculty. This may also include teaching/supervision, systematic literature reviews, program evaluation, and curriculum development. Current research projects involving the fellows are focused on processes of change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy groups for stage 2 DBT clients, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills group clients.
Additional Comments: Minimum Qualifications: By the beginning of the fellowship year, the applicant will have completed an APA-approved doctoral program in clinical or counseling psychology and an APA-approved pre-doctoral internship program. Training and experience in DBT is strongly preferred.
Application Instructions: Send cover letter and CV and provide either two letters of rec or the names of two references. In addition, please also send a statement from the internship training director indicating good standing in the program and expected completion date (if the internship is already completed, please submit certificate or similar documentation), and a statement from the dissertation committee chair indicating expected completion date of dissertation. Send materials to Dr. Amy House at ahouse@augusta.edu. For questions, e-mail Dr. House or call her at 706-721-6710.

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