Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory

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Conscious Culture Health Psychology Fellowship is a one year postdoctoral pre-licensed training program focused on the Advanced Specialty of Clinical Health Psychology in outpatient care serving Los Angeles and Orange County. We provide evaluation services to children, adults, Veterans, and immigrant populations. The mission of the Fellow Training Program is to advance multi-cultural competence skills among rising professionals in the Specialty of Health Psychology to increase access to culturally relevant mental health care for the ethnically diverse communities of Los Angeles and Orange County. 

The training program has a hybrid schedule with majority of direct service and training occurring virtually. Opportunities for in person training occurs in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, including evaluation services, consultations, staff meetings, trainings, mentorship, ceremonial gatherings, and community events/activities from approximately two to eight times a month. 

POPULATION: CCPC serves individuals from varied cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds with a mission to reach underserved populations, specifically Native Americans and Latinx, to provide them with culturally relevant therapy. We provide services to individuals with mild to moderate severity of mental illness with a focus on stress disorders including anxiety, complex- and post- traumatic stress disorder, and stress related chronic illness. 

SCHEDULE: The Fellowship begins in August and continues through the following year. The training schedule follows a standard full time schedule of 40 hours per week with business hours from 8 am to 5 pm. Direct service hours can be flexible due to the nature of community work, offering community outreach which requires some evenings and weekends. Fellows will spend a minimum of 22 hours of direct service per week involving individual, couples, and group therapy; evaluation; and psychological report writing. At least four hours per week will be dedicated to supervision and training. 

Supervision of fellows is provided by licensed psychologists who carry professional practice responsibility for the cases being supervised. Supervision is designed to meet the supervised professional experience requirements for licensure in the state of California. Fellows receive 2-hours of individual and 2-hours of group didactics per week. Group didactics include training seminars to support professional development in culturally sensitive trauma informed health psychology service and opportunities to showcase work via a case conceptualization, diagnostic evaluation, community and self study presentation and shadowing and co-facilitating group work. 

Training begins with an orientation focused on the policies and procedures at CCPC. During orientation, Fellows will complete the CCPC Post-doctoral Fellow Standards of Competencies Evaluation Form to self rate skills and develop an individualized training plan with their supervisor. Additionally, three written evaluations will be provided to the Fellow during onboarding to assess adequate onboard training, and at 6-months and 12-months to assess professional development. Remaining hours per week provide time for training, staff meetings, shadowing, note writing, case management, supervision and training assignments, studying for the EPPP, opportunities for professional leadership development, scholarly research, licensure matters including supervised hours documentation, and career planning.