POSITION DESCRIPTION

This is a newly-funded one-year and fulltime postdoctoral clinical/counseling psychology fellowship program currently recruiting several pre-licensed individuals who are seeking advanced training in evidence-based treatment for mental health conditions that commonly present within interdisciplinary community settings. The patient populations will consist of adult and adolescent patients/clients within settings that include telehealth, traditional outpatient therapy settings, an innovative youth drop-in setting, and a substance use residential treatment/intensive outpatient program (IOP). Applicants should possess a PhD/PsyD in clinical or counseling psychology by the time they start the fellowship. Each fellow will rotate through multiple clinic locations to gain the full breadth of therapeutic modalities among a diversity of Los Angeles populations served by UCLA Health and its affiliates, including UC-LEND, Gender Health Program, CLARE|MATRIX, and allcove Beach Cities. Fellows will have the opportunity to decide where they want to spend most of their training between neurodevelopment, gender health, and substance use. Each fellow will accrue postdoctoral hours towards CA licensure through clinical supervision by a UCLA faculty member who is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in collaborative, interdisciplinary treatment models among adolescent and adult populations. Postdoctoral fellows are expected to also participate in weekly didactics and complete a scholarly/quality improvement project by month 9 of fellowship. This postdoctoral fellowship program is run by the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics & Preventive Medicine section of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research within the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. This fellowship program is not yet APA accredited