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Postdoc Fellowship
for early career counseling psychologists and clinical psychologists.
Forward-Thinking Training for Today’s Mental Healthcare Environment
A structured introduction to professional psychology in private practice.
Our Postdoctoral Fellowship Program prepares exceptionally qualified and motivated doctoral graduates who strive to become leaders for change in their community through their role in private practice.
It is a year-long, 40-hour-a-week demanding and challenging experience that provides rigorous and pragmatic training in evidence-based psychodynamic and relational individual psychotherapy and emotionally focused couples therapy.
Important Dates:
Beginning Application Date: October 16, 2024
Rolling admission: Interviews, offers, and acceptances will occur until an exceptionally qualified class is full.
Start Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025
End Date: August 28, 2026
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Externship Program
for advanced doctoral students in counseling psychology or clinical psychology.
Embodying Hope For a Better Future
Our Externs form the front-line clinical team of the Capital Therapy Project, our low-fee psychodynamic therapy institute in Downtown DC.
Our Externship program is designed to provide an intensive clinical experience and training rarely available in other training settings.
We emphasize psychodynamic principles in all aspects of the externship program’s clinical services, including individual psychotherapy, couples counseling, and working with DC’s LGBTQIA+ community as well as individuals and couples from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds.
The Externship Program is an unpaid 12-month training opportunity emphasizing the extensive use of technological and supervisory resources. We aim to train tomorrow’s psychologists to excel as culturally sensitive and responsive clinicians and critical thinkers in the evolving landscape of psychodynamic therapy in the digital age.
Download Detailed Information About Our 2025-2026 Externship Program
Important Dates
Application Due Date: February 7, 2025
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: August 14, 2026