Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory

UNLV PRACTICE®, an interdisciplinary community mental health clinic (https://www.unlv.edu/thepractice), invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology with a Youth Mental Health Focus with a start date to coincide with the beginning of the 2024-25 academic training year (August 2024).

UNLV PRACTICE® is an innovative and growing training clinic committed to serving the mental and behavioral health needs of a diverse community with evidence-based practices and programs for children, adolescents, and adults. In addition to individual psychotherapy, we offer and train in comprehensive psychological assessment, group psychotherapy, trauma- and grief-focused interventions, preschool-grade 12 outreach, and telehealth. 

UNLV PRACTICE® leaders are highly committed to recruiting, training, and retaining mental health professionals to work in Nevada and are pleased to announce a postdoctoral fellowship to meet licensure requirements for the professional psychologist. Our psychology postdoctoral fellowship program is designed to promote clinical skills development toward independent licensure in a setting that values socially and culturally responsive practice in training and clinical care. 

We seek applicants who are committed to learning, engaging with the community, and collaborating in inter-professional practice with openness to developing and providing clinical mental health services to diverse populations considering intersectional identities in clinical conceptualization and treatment. Nevada is 47th in the nation for psychologists per capita. Without sounding too cliche, where there is great need, there is a great opportunity. Nevada is a place where there is room to have a great deal of influence on one's destiny as a psychologist; and where a psychologist can make a tangible difference in the community. There is plenty of work to go around, plenty of work to do, and a committed professional community to support you in doing so. It's a place where you are wanted, needed, and welcomed with open arms. It's a place where you have a chance to design and build the career of your choosing. 

UNLV PRACTICE® is also expanding and we provide our postdoctoral trainees excellent, attentive, diligent supervision with opportunities to gain increased independence and to influence and build our programs alongside us. Please visit our website to learn more about our mission and programs.

Youth Mental Health Focus. The fellowship will specialize in expanding evidence-based mental health care services to children and adolescents. In addition to program development, the fellow will provide direct assessment and intervention services (individual & group psychotherapy) and assist in clinically supervising practicum trainees at our new satellite location in the heart of the Las Vegas health district. Opportunities to assist with the clinic’s ongoing research endeavors, and attend didactic seminars are available as are opportunities to participate in integrating services into UNLV's new and emerging Academic Health Center initiative. Further, the successful applicant will be expected to be an integral contributor to the clinic's participation in a national SAMSHA-funded project to train in an integrated model of school-community-family-mental health including multi-tiered interventions to address trauma and build resilience. The primary supervisor is Dr. Michelle Paul (michelle.paul@unlv.edu). 

The position requires a doctoral degree (Ph.D., Psy.D., Ed.D.) in clinical, counseling, or school psychology from a regionally accredited college or university. Strongest preference will be given to students who graduated from an APA-accredited program and completed an APA-accredited or APPIC-member internship. Bilingual-bicultural applicants are encouraged to apply as there is great opportunity to maintain and expand our services in this regard.

Salary is competitive with those at similarly situated institutions and the position is contingent upon funding. UNLV is a doctoral-degree-granting institution of approximately 29,000 students and more than 3,000 faculty and staff that is classified R1 (research university with very high research activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. UNLV is the third most ethnically diverse campus in the nation, with over 20,000 students from underrepresented groups. UNLV has been designated as an Asian-American and Native-American, Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) and as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). The university is committed to recruiting and retaining top students and faculty, building and fostering a culturally inclusive environment, educating the region's diversifying population and workforce, driving economic activity through increased research and community partnerships, and creating an academic health center for Southern Nevada that includes the UNLV School of Medicine. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in Southern Nevada. For more information, visit us online at: http://www.unlv.edu.

Demographic trends in Nevada demonstrate a growing shift in the ethnic and linguistic makeup of the state, with individuals identifying as Hispanic/Latino comprising nearly 20% of the population in Nevada and an estimated 30.3% in Clark County, where our clinic sits. Bilingual-bicultural applicants are encouraged to apply.