Clinical Training Opportunities

Counseling Services offers a two-day-a-week (14-hour) psychology externship program with a three-day-a-week (21-hour) social work internship program. There are also occasional opportunities for two- or 14-hour social work internships, depending on the program.

Students who participate in clinical training will:

• Conduct intakes and triage assessments
• Conduct short-term individual psychotherapy with a maximum of eight clients (12-session limit)
• Participate in two hours of individual supervision and one hour of group supervision
• Participate in a training/didactic seminar
• Have the opportunity to conduct crisis intervention, which may include collateral contacts with family, faculty, staff, and outside providers
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners
• Work collaboratively with the Offices of Student Support and Crisis Management and Student Conduct and Community Standards

You must be in a PhD program in clinical or counseling psychology or an MSW program in social work and must have completed at least one externship (or internship for social work students).

Materials Required for Application

• CV
• One-page letter addressing the candidate's interest in working in a university counseling service (not a recap of résumé)
• Two letters of recommendation

Submit to Jerry Finkelstein, Senior Director of Counseling Services, at finkelsj@newschool.edu. At this time, Counseling Services is not conducting research or providing psychological testing opportunities for externs.