Pre-Doctoral Program, Predoc Program, Program

The Program

The University of Rochester's Counseling Center (UCC) offers both predoctoral and postdoctoral supervised experience in clinical and counseling psychology. UCC offers a wide range of psychological services to the University of Rochester community which includes the undergraduate and graduate population and students at the Eastman School of Music and the School of Medicine. Fellows will encounter a wide range of disorders including depression, anxiety, sequelae of sexual abuse, character pathology, eating disorders, substance abuse, and couples' problems.

The training experience provides a broad range of clinical opportunities within a university setting and is supported by intensive supervision, seminars, and clinical case conferences. These experiences include: time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy, work with couples, year-long group psychotherapy, diagnostic and character pathology assessment, on-call emergency services, provision of supervision to psychology graduate students, teaching a year-long clinical issues seminar and campus consultation and education.

A significant strength of the program lies in the opportunity to work closely and intensively with licensed psychologists who are committed to training. On a weekly basis postdoctoral fellows receive two hours of individual supervision and two hours of group supervision, participate in selected case-oriented seminars, and attend a case conference where senior staff members present their own clinical work. In recognition of postdoctoral fellows' advanced standing in the program, they are engaged in the teaching a seminar for practicum students, supervise several advanced psychology graduate students in training, and present a clinical case during the faculty case conference seminar.

A major focus of the fellowship is acquiring the skills necessary to work as a UCC staff psychologist within the university community. As such, the postdoctoral fellow acts as a consultant to university personnel on particular issues of concern and completes administrative evaluations for students requesting special accommodations. Additionally, the fellow serves on the predoctoral intern selection committee.

UCC has a long-standing commitment to intensive supervision and training. This training is provided to full-time postdoctoral fellows and predoctoral interns drawn from a national pool, half-time predoctoral trainees from the Department of Psychology at the University of Rochester, graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology, and psychiatric residents. The full-time supervising staff is composed of licensed clinical psychologists all of whom are full-time faculty in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The part-time supervising staff includes psychiatrists and psychologists who are psychotherapists in the Rochester community as well as adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychiatry.

Satisfactory completion of the postdoctoral training program at UCC meets all requirements for licensure in the State of New York.