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Austin Texas Private Practice Post-Doctoral Residency

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Private Practice
Austin, Texas

Starts on Monday, September 7, 2026

Applications due Saturday, January 24, 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

Dr. Jordan’s goal is to provide a comprehensive, structured, multifaceted training that will allow a post-doctoral resident to develop the confidence to create their own fee for service practice during the training year. During this time you will learn the essential skills to build and maintain a private fee-for-service practice. To date Dr. Jordan has successfully launched 26 residents, all of whom still practice independently in the Austin area. 

You will receive weekly individual and group supervision with opportunities to participate in consultations with leading professionals in the areas of attachment, psychodynamic therapy, outcomes research and personality assessment, including Drs. Nancy McWilliams, Carol George, Stan Tatkin and others upon request. 

Once a post-doctoral resident has completed their training the clients that they currently hold on their caseload “leave” with them and are the basis for the new practice of the newly licensed psychologist. On average post-doctoral residents leave the position with 20-25 active fee-for-service clients. Emphasis is placed on diagnostics, differential diagnosis and case conceptualization through a psychodynamic lens as well as integrating interpersonal neurobiology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, sociology, social psychology and attachment theory. Psychodynamic therapy skills are taught including use of transference, enactments, projection, projective-identification and challenging of defense mechanisms and interpretation of day and night dreams. Couples therapy is taught from a Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) perspective. Videotaping is available (but not requried) to provide supervision of therapy services. There is an option to learn adult attachment assessment with the Adult Attachment Projective/AAP as well as psychodynamic personality assessment using the MMPI-2/3 and TAT. Rorschach consultation is also available on request. Additional skills taught are the formation of a therapeutic alliance with difficult clients, management of acting out clients, self-care strategies to prevent career burn-out, how to retain clients for long-term work and how to use assessment as a structure from which to launch a psychodynamic psychotherapy. 

Residents are encouraged to learn how to manage their own "practice within a practice" by creating their own forms, setting their own fees and schedules and managing their own client communications. Supervision and consultation is always available but autonomy is strongly supported to build confidence in the newly emerging professional. Trainees are selected on the basis of education and experience as well as interpersonal “fit”. Decisions are irrespective to age, gender, race, religion, culture, national affiliation, disabilities, language, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation or gender identity. Applicants are selected each year based on submitted CV’s, letters of personal interest/personal statements, an initial phone interview and either an in-person or video interview. All candidates must hold a PhD or PsyD in either Clinical or Counseling psychology.

Additional Information

Agency Type
Private Practice Clinic
APPIC Membership
No
APA Accredited
No
Recognized Specialty
Clinical Psychology
Emphasis or focus area
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
Other Emphasis
Outpatient psychotherapy
Research Time
Less than 25%
Training Director
Krista Jordan, Ph.D., ABPP
Contact Email
kristadjordan@gmail.com
Contact Phone
512-293-3807
Virtual Interviews
Available
Duration in Months
12
Hours Per Week
40
# of Licensed Supervisors
2
Number of Positions
2
Applications recieved last year
5
Accepts Int'l Students
Stipend
$80,000
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
Yes
Estimated offer date
Monday, February 23 2026
Created Date
Friday, December 23 2016
Unfilled Positions
2
Fringe Benefits
Establish your own fee for service private practice and take your clients with you when you leave (on average 20 at completion). Learn marketing and management of a private fee for service practice. Learn a neurobiological and attachment-based style of couples therapy (PACT) as well as psychodynamic assessment, formulation and therapy techniques. Optional opportunity to learn how to integrate assessment data into psychotherapy (MMPI-3, AAP). Build a network of referral sources within Austin to sustain your practice after leaving the residency.
Research opportunities
My private therapy practice is affiliated with the PACT Institute where we have just started a research program looking at attachment-based couples therapy outcomes. Our project has finished IRB and is in the active data collection phase. Opportunities for involvement in the current research project include statistics, literature review, data collection, fidelity assessment and writing. Future projects include the development of a new psychometric tool to assess outcomes in attachment-based couples therapy.
Additional Comments
This post-doctoral residency is an open-enrollment and as such I am able to take applications year round. If you would like to be put in contact with previous post-doctoral residents who have completed this program please reach out to me and I will forward your information to former residents.
Application Instructions
Please send a letter of interest and resume/CV to my email at kristadjordan@gmail.com. After receipt of your application if you appear to be a good match you will be contacted for a phone call followed by a virtual/tele interview. In person interviews are also offered for those who live locally or are able to travel.

This record was last updated on Sunday, July 13, 2025

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