Training Opportunities
The Counseling Center
The top five reasons why our students seek mental health counseling:
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Depression
- Family concerns
- Academic concerns
Clients are undergraduate and graduate students whose concerns range from adjustment reactions and long-standing psychological problems. Approximately 5% of the UW Bothell student body receive services at the Counseling Center.
UW Bothell
University of Washington Bothell is a four-year regional public university that grants baccalaureate, post-baccalaureate, and masters degrees.
Training
Positions
Postdoctoral Psychology Resident
We are currently offering postdoc positions!
Doctoral and Masters Level Practicum in Psychology
We do not have any practicum positions at this time. We have offered them in the past and hope to do so again in the near future.
Training Opportunities
Trainees will conduct intake interviews and provide individual and group therapy while at the Counseling Center. Additionally, trainees will have the option of involvement in outreach and community intervention. These activities would involve informational fairs, consulting and working with the undergraduate student peer health educators (HEROS), and providing workshops to undergraduate students, university housing residential life staff, and other student affairs student leaders and employees.
Hours
Postdoc
Postdocs are full time employees of UW Bothell on a 1 year contract and typically start around September 1st. They are expected to work 8:30 am to 5:00pm with a half-hour unpaid lunch.
Practicum
Practicum students are expected to provide 12 – 20 hours per week during the fall, winter and spring quarters at the UWB Counseling Center. The days of the week you are at our site is negotiable, but must occur Monday – Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Clinical Services
Trainees will build their caseload over the fall quarter and then maintain their caseload throughout the year by adding new clients to their schedules as they terminate with ongoing clients. Practicum students typically build to 8 – 12 clients per week and postdocs typically build to 16 – 20 clients. The Counseling Center provides short-term counseling. For training purposes trainees are encouraged to work with their supervisor to identify two clients who would benefit from longer term counseling (6 – 9 months). Trainees will provide counseling in offices which are equipped with computer cameras to digitally record and store all counseling sessions. These recordings will be deleted once their supervisor has reviewed them and provided supervision for those clinical sessions.
Supervision
Individual supervision
Practicum students will receive 1-2 hours of face-to-face individual clinical supervision per week. Postdocs will receive 2 hours per week. The supervision will be provided by a licensed clinician who has the credentials required for the trainee’s intended license and the supervisor has direct clinical responsibility for client care. The clinical supervisor will review digital recordings of the trainee’s clinical work. The Counseling Center uses Titanium, an electronic scheduling and electronic health record system. The clinical supervisor will review and sign all clinical notes.
Group Supervision
Trainees will participate in regularly scheduled group supervision. Group supervision will focus on didactic trainings including multicultural competence, ethical issues, case conceptualization, different treatment modalities, and how to work with different client populations. Trainees will have one presentation assignment each quarter to further their multicultural competence and case conceptualization skills.
Application Process
Prior Experience
postdocs
Applicants are required to have met all academic requirements for their doctoral degree. Applicants may apply during internship with the expectation that all degree requirements (including internship and dissertation) will be fulfilled and degree conferred before the start date.
Doctoral students
Applicants are required to have met all requirements for their master degree or equivalent experience. If defense of master thesis is the only outstanding requirement you may still apply. Applicants need to have successfully completed one academic year of outpatient counseling with young adults (14 – 17) or adults (18 – 60).
masters students
Applicants must have successfully completed pre-practicum training and coursework and meet department requirements to apply for this placement.
Application
Interested students must submit the following materials:
- A cover letter describing the applicant’s interest in the training site
- Curriculum vita
- Names and contact information (email and phone) of three references. Preferably two of the three will have provided clinical supervision for you.
Dr. Lillian Chen, Counseling Center Training Coordinator, can be reached at lchen20@uw.edu.