Doctoral Internship – Walnut Creek

Monthly local training and opportunities; Regional MHTP participation & specialty track opportunities built into intern schedules

Regional MHTP and monthly local training built into intern schedules

*All MHTP seminars are delivered using distance education technologies. Registration and meeting links via the host virtual platforms are required for entrance into online seminars. There are no fees associated with MHTP seminars, and intern privacy is prioritized at all times.

Professional Development Seminar, team meetings and huddles, Feedback Informed Care, Case Consultation groups with clinical teams and in training track

Two different psychologists provide one weekly face-to-face hour of supervision;  one hour of assessment group supervision and one to two hours of clinical group supervision focusing on wide ranging clinical consultation or professional development.

Participation in local and regional efforts to enrich KP Community health

Interns choose neuropsych or other psychodiagnostic evaluation referrals after starting the year with ADHD evaluations. Weekly group supervision and twice monthly hands-on assessment lab provides support for learning and growth.

Intern will have broad exposure to eating disorders treatment on a multidisciplinary team of providers treating patients at the highest level of outpatient care. They will learn how to utilize Exposure Based milieu therapy and provide Family-Based Therapy for eating disorders.

This training opportunity is for providing group therapy in the Eating Disorders Intensive Outpatient Program, and for learning how to conduct individualized intake assessments with a specialized population. Opportunities exist for multidisciplinary collaboration with adolescent medicine specialists, physicians, and registered dieticians. Additional opportunities may be available for interns to shadow medical treatment in the adjacent inpatient adolescent eating disorder unit.

Interns will provide a combination of virtual and in person services to both adult and teen patients and will also receive supervised practice with the general psychiatric population.

This track provides training in Neuropsychological and Adult ADHD Assessment.

A unique track for training with adult patients stepping down from hospitalization or increasing the level of care from standard outpatient treatment. Interns will be involved with individualized treatment planning for psychiatric adult outpatients at all levels of acuity.

Interns will gain experience with evidence-based treatments for patients with serious and persistent mental illness, including DBT, CBT and milieu therapy. Treatment modalities in this rotation include group and individual psychotherapy. There are numerous opportunities for interns to collaborate with multidisciplinary treatment team providers within and outside our organization.

There are opportunities to shadow emergency services and crisis consultation provided by supervisors and team managers. Interns can follow patients through Aftercare planning and through the next phase of their stabilization.

This track provides training in Neuropsychological and Adult ADHD assessment.

A track for training with teenaged patients stepping down from hospitalization or increasing their level of care from standard outpatient treatment. Interns will be involved with individualized treatment planning for psychiatric teen outpatients at all levels of acuity. Often their families also are engaged in treatment. Interns will gain experience with evidence-based treatments for patients with serious mental illness, and they will learn a risk assessment protocol specifically designed for children and teenagers.

Treatment modalities in this rotation include group, family, and individual psychotherapy. Interns can follow patients through Aftercare Planning and sometimes through their stabilization period. There also will be supervised practice with the general teen and transitional aged youth psychiatric outpatient population.

This track provides assessment training in Neuropsychology and ADHD, assessing teen and/or pediatric patients when they are available.

Is a  full-time general mental health offering combined with neuropsych emphasis and will be conducted as a hybrid – in person some days with another partial day required occasionally for assessments.

Intern will be involved in the treatment of adults presenting in the general psychiatric population, gaining  clinical experience in the provision of individual and group  therapies with a broad range of diverse patients presenting a wide range of psychiatric conditions.

They will also partner with other  multidisciplinary mental health providers consulting on neuropsychological assessments and treatment recommendations.

The neuropsychological assessment component will be approximately half of the interns’ clinical practice and will provide some lifespan experience with pediatric neuropsychological cases and will emphasize adult cases.

On this Health Psychology track embedded in OBGYN departments, with some opportunity for relevant general adult outpatient experience, the intern receives supervised professional experience in consulting, treatment planning, brief treatments and groups. It is conducted as a hybrid – in person some days with another partial day required occasionally for assessments.

The training focuses on preventing the predictable negative health consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and on normalizing mental wellness through early awareness. Emphasis is on early intervention, multicultural competency and applications to healthcare in meeting patients, families and their providers with their presenting concerns.

Collaboration on multidisciplinary teams through daily huddles, department consultation, education and program evaluation.

Neuropsychology and ADHD training for this track will offer additional relevant referrals for health psych brief screeners when suitable.

This placement is an introduction to substance use disorder treatment on a truly multidisciplinary, integrated medical team. The Intern is introduced to all roles and expectations on an outpatient addiction medicine treatment team providing group and individual psychological services including intake assessments, psychoeducation and other group and individual therapeutic services.

There may also be opportunities for supervised experience with adult general psychiatric outpatients. Services are provided to adult patients in the Addiction Medicine & Recovery Services (AMRS) Department’s most acute level of outpatient care for abstinence-based treatment.

The Intern will provide individual services 3- 4 days per week, with hybrid remote work on the other days. Interns also will be introduced to the Harm Reduction Model, cofacilitating once weekly a virtual group for patients seeking to moderate their substance use based on personal goals.

This track includes Neuropsychology and ADHD assessment training.

Broad introduction to team-based outpatient care on a truly multidisciplinary, integrated medical team. Interns are provided with practice opportunities across a wide range of roles and expectations on an outpatient addiction medicine treatment team providing group and individual psychological services including intake assessments, psychoeducation and other group and individual therapeutic services.

They also may have ongoing cases from the adult general psychiatric department. Interns will provide in person group and individual services several days per week to patients in the AMRS Departments’ dual diagnosis abstinence-based program.

Interns will provide a combination of virtual and in person services 3 days per week to patients presenting with both a substance use disorder and other mental health disorders.

Interns have Neuropsychological and ADHD assessment training in this track.