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A Group Practice in North San Diego County: Psychotherapy & Assessment

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Coastal Therapy Group, A Psychological Corporation
Carlsbad, California

Starts on Monday, August 19, 2024

Applications due Monday, January 22, 2024

This program will NOT follow the APPIC Postdoctoral Selection Standards with Common Hold Date and is not committing to allow applicants to hold offers until the Common Hold Date. Applicants may need to respond to an offer from this program prior to completing interviews or hearing from other programs about their standing.

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

Coastal Therapy Group (CTG) is a group practice of clinical psychologists that provide psychotherapy and assessment in north county San Diego. We welcome applications from clinicians with a Psy.D. or Ph.D. from an accredited institution. Our ideal candidate is excited about practicing and growing in a community that values long-term psychotherapy and self-reflection, and is motivated to serve people from all backgrounds with humility and cultural responsiveness. Fellows who flourish in our group are often people who want to live in north county San Diego, who are interested in having a career in group practice, and who value communicating with colleagues and teammates about triumphs, challenges, and conflict in mutually candid and caring ways. Learning to be a better therapist as a psychologist does not stop at the end of our formal postdoctoral training. At Coastal we get that, because as a group we are continuing to learn with and from each other every week.

The fellows are supervised by licensed psychologists, who are influenced most by attachment-based psychodynamic theory, interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis, emotion focused and third wave behavioral approaches, and feminist/multicultural perspectives. The fellowship is in a group practice setting and requires a twelve-month commitment from the applicant. After completing your post-doctoral fellowship, you may be offered a position at Coastal Therapy Group as a psychological associate (if not licensed) or licensed psychologist. During your training, you will:

  • Learn how to maintain a private-pay psychotherapy caseload

  • Deepen and solidify clinical skills in work with long-term psychotherapy cases

  • Obtain advanced training in psychological assessment

  • Receive support as you prepare for licensure as a psychologist

  • Be encouraged in this exciting stage of professional identity development and integration of personal voice in your professional roles 

  • Develop your skills working collaboratively with the larger helping community

Highlights of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship: 

  • Use of personally assigned reMarkable 2 tablet

  • Two hours of individual supervision, participation in weekly group supervision and team seminar hours.

  • Professional development and therapeutic resources (e.g., books, audiobooks, testing materials, toys, etc.)

  • One week of paid leave, two weeks of unpaid leave

  • Paid sick leave

  • 401(k)

  • Health insurance

  • $500 licensure stipend

  • Furnished office spaces

  • Marketing materials

  • Support from a care coordinator

  • Malpractice Insurance

  • Well furnished offices near Pacific Ocean beaches
Minimum Requirements

  • Psy.D. or Ph.D. in clinical or counseling psychology from an APA accredited program

  • Completion of an APA or APPIC accredited predoctoral internship

  • Experience or interest in working with adolescent psychotherapy patients

  • Self-starter with openness to learning and personal growth

  • Experience and ability to work closely and collaboratively with colleagues

  • Commitment to multicultural growth, self-reflection, and work with diverse populations 

  • Desire to learn and participate in the business of being in group practice

Additional Requirements and Program Description

Post-doctoral fellows are expected to work 40 hours per week. Over the course of the training year, 40% of these hours must be spent providing professional psychological services. At the beginning of the training year when fellows are not seeing as many patients, additional time is spent accomplishing administrative/marketing tasks, fellowship projects, professional development activities, etc. CTG supports time being spent studying for the EPPP.

Fellows start the training year with a stipend of $55,000 for 40 hours per week (all qualifying for SPE hours toward licensure requirements). This constitutes a fellow’s base salary. For fellows in good standing, CTG seeks to increase post-doctoral income once caseloads are full. We do this through the use of a stipend-commission hybrid model in the later months of the fellowship year. Though this additional pay is not guaranteed, it is what we plan for and work toward.

The Coastal Therapy Group Post-Doctoral Fellowship program meets the California Board of Psychology licensure requirements for post-doctoral Supervised Professional Experience. https://www.psychology.ca.gov/

Additional Information

Agency Type
Private Practice Clinic
APPIC Membership
No
APA Accredited
No
Recognized Specialty
Clinical Psychology
Emphasis or focus area
Assessment
Research Time
No research time
Training Director
Reid Kessler, Psy.D.
Contact Email
drkessler@coastaltherapygroup.com
Contact Phone
(760) 334-6262
Virtual Interviews
Virtual Only
Duration in Months
12
Hours Per Week
40
# of Licensed Supervisors
4
Number of Positions
2
Applications recieved last year
13
Stipend
$55,000
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
No
Estimated offer date
Friday, February 9 2024
Created Date
Monday, December 28 2020
Unfilled Positions
0
Fringe Benefits
Health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid sick leave, one week paid vacation, & $500 licensure stipend
Application Instructions
Please send a cover letter, CV, and the contact information for two references to drkessler@coastaltherapygroup.com. After reviewing your materials, we may invite you to schedule one or more formal interview(s). In the event we would like to schedule an interview, we will contact you to discuss scheduling options. Thank you in advance for your interest in this position. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you might have about this opportunity, we are happy to provide additional information.

This record was last updated on Tuesday, September 12, 2023

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