Postdoctoral Residency – Antioch

The city of Antioch is the gateway to the Delta and is located on the banks of the San Joaquin River in east Contra Costa County. A city of approximately 115,000 residents, Antioch, is one of the few Bay Area communities offering affordable housing; as a result, increased development has created employment opportunities in schools, hospitals, and other local service sectors. The Antioch area offers a wide range of shopping, cultural, and recreational activities, including the John Marsh Historic House State Park, Marsh Creek Regional Trail, art galleries and live music venues.

The Kaiser Permanente Antioch Mental Health and Addiction Medicine Services is located off the Hillcrest Avenue exit on Highway 4 in an office park and just a short walk from the BART extension train station. The department operates in a stand-alone building designed specifically for our services and offers ample parking. The KP Antioch Medical Center and Delta Fair Medical Offices are a 10-minute drive away.

Our department serves a socioeconomically and culturally diverse patient population in a geographical area spanning from Central/Eastern Contra County to southern Sacramento. Many of our clinicians travel from other Bay Area cities to work in Antioch. The commute from the west is a reverse commute, making it an easy drive to our unique clinic.

Program Curriculum

All tracks of the East Bay Postdoctoral Residency in Clinical Psychology (EBC) provide the cornerstone training elements of: 

• Individual Supervision: 2 hours
• Group Supervisions: 2 – 3 hours, including assessment, case consultation & professional development)
• Didactics: 2 hours
• Other team-based consultations and site-specific training are scheduled within each track.
• Opportunity to participate in MHTP Specialty Training: 2 hours

All tracks are part of the EBC (regardless of site location) and all postdocs will be provided supervised experience with a broad range of patients representing the general psychiatric population, pursuing your professional competencies and goals together with your cohort, whether the referrals originate within or beyond your selected track. Diablo Service Area (DSA) is organized across sites, and many postdocs have opportunity to train in more than one setting with their supervisors. Each resident begins the training year with their supervisor reviewing a self-assessment of the resident’s competency level so that the training experience is personalized from the outset, and comparable across all track settings. All our tracks are part of our cohesive training in the DSA; and benefit from all the support and enrichment by our Northern California Regional Mental Health Training Program (MHTP). Postdocs may be recommended for additional and relevant elective specialty tracks or rotations offered by the MHTP (regional offerings vary each year).

 

Program Highlights

Track and Rotations:

Many of our postdocs have opportunity to train in different medical and psychiatric offices, for a robust and varied experience, alongside with their supervisors.  Please see the Walnut Creek Splash page for descriptions of our 6 positions offered for 2027-28 :

https://mentalhealthtraining-ncal.kaiserpermanente.org/programs/postdoctoral-residency-walnut-creek/

 

 

 

Schedule

All tracks have a hybrid schedule that includes both in-person and remote practice. Postdoctoral trainees are provided with robust clinical training opportunities and may have slightly different daytime schedules depending on their track. There are no weekend or evening hours.