Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Pratt Institute Counseling Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Psychology

Pratt Institute - Schools of Art, Design, and Architecture
Brooklyn, New York

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 oof 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

Mission:

The mission of the fellowship is to provide high quality training to Fellows who have a passion for university counseling, would like to further their professional development in college mental health practices, and wish to focus on clinical work with art students. Upon completion, Fellows will be prepared for independent clinical work at a university counseling center or other clinical placements serving young adults. With this aim, the post-doctoral program follows a practitioner-scholar model, whereby clinical practice is informed by scholarly inquiry. As part of their training, Fellows participate in a weekly reading seminar as well as workshops run by invited speakers from the wider clinical community, whose expertise reflects the clinical concerns encountered around emerging adulthood. The emphasis is on clinical practice embedded with scholarly skills: critical thinking, conceptualization, problem solving, and involvement in research/program evaluation. We are committed to training reflective and informed practitioners.

Overview:

The Counseling Center at the Pratt Institute offers services to its diverse and international community of approximately 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students studying in the Schools of Art, Design, Architecture, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Information. We are staffed by seven full-time clinicians, as well as a part-time psychiatrist, and staff are informed by humanistic, developmental, psychodynamic, and behavioral theoretical orientations. Counseling Services are located in the main Brooklyn campus in the historic neighborhood of Clinton Hill and offers satellite services in its Manhattan campus in Union Square.

The post-doctoral program in psychology offers three full-time psychoanalytically oriented fellowships for a 12-month training in college counseling, beginning in mid-August 2025 in accordance with the start of the academic year. Fellows are considered full members of staff and will deliver the full range of clinical service under supervision by our team. All students seeking treatment are screened in a triage consultation for their first appointment. Fellows serve as members of the Triage Team and present their assessments during our disposition meetings where senior supervisory staff provide treatment recommendations. During these meetings, Fellows have a voice in designing their caseloads based on experience level and interest.

The Counseling Center does not have a fixed number of sessions and Fellows have an opportunity do goal-oriented work as well as more intensive work depending on students clinical need and presentation. The majority of the Fellows time is spent providing individual psychotherapy which is coupled with weekly individual and group supervision and a weekly psychoanalytic reading seminar.

Clinical Training:

1 hour of individual supervision per week
1.5 hours of group supervision per week for individual therapy cases
1 hour of group supervision for group therapy
3 hours of multi-disciplinary disposition meetings per week
1.5 hours didactic seminar per week.

Clinical Experience:

Individual therapy – approximately 15 client caseload
Intake interviewing and assessment (5 intakes/week)
Group therapy
Case Management
Crisis assessment, intervention, and urgent care
Consultation
Referrals
Outreach and psycho-educational workshops.

https://www.pratt.edu/administrative-departments/student-affairs/the-counseling-center/training-programs/

Additional Information

Agency Type: University Counseling Center
APPIC Membership: No
APA Accredited: No
Recognized Specialty: Clinical Psychology
Emphasis or focus area: Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
Other Emphasis: Humanistic
Research Time: Less than 25%
Training Director: Antonia Frydman
Contact Email: afrydm23@pratt.edu
Contact Phone: 718.687.5321
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 35
# of Licensed Supervisors: 5
Number of Positions: 3
Applications recieved last year: 18
Accepts Int'l Students
Stipend: $62,400
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
Created Date: Wednesday, December 12 2018
Unfilled Positions: 3
Fringe Benefits: The fellowship has stipend of $62,400. Fellows receive medical insurance (including dental), vacation, sick leave, a professional development package, as well as other university benefits (e.g., library privileges, access to university facilities).
Research opportunities: No time allotted for research, but professional development and training is encouraged.
Additional Comments: We will give priority to applications reviewed before January 10th, 2025. Orientation occurs virtually prior to the Fall semester. Applications will be considered until positions are filled. There are 3 unfilled positions for the 2025-2026 training year.
Application Instructions: Please email a pdf that includes your cover letter, your current curriculum vitae (CV), and three recent letters of recommendation from individuals who can attest to your clinical skills to Antonia Frydman, Ph.D., Associate Director of Clinical Training at afrydm23@pratt.edu. Please indicate your anticipated defense date in your CV. Note: Applicants must have a doctorate in Psychology from an APA accredited program and be able to submit materials attesting to completion of all doctoral degree requirements including dissertation defense date. Experience in applying psychoanalytic thinking to working with a diverse college age population is encouraged. Preference is given to applicants with strong interest applying psychoanalytic ideas in a university-based counseling center.

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