Experience

Community Institute for Psychotherapy

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Clinical Psychology Intern

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  The Community Institute for Psychotherapy (CIP), a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, is a grassroots agency that has been serving Marin County for over 30 years. We offer quality, affordable counseling and psychotherapy for families, individuals, and couples. We can help with conditions including depression, anxiety, relationship problems, parenting and family issues, work and career issues, major life changes and transitions, child and adolescent concerns, school-related issues, grief and bereavement, trauma, domestic violence, abuse, substance abuse, and gender issues. At CIP, clients learn to understand themselves better and how to live richer, fuller lives.



Psychological Services Center

• Clinical Psychology Intern

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  Psychological Services Center (PSC) is a community-based mental health clinic that serves the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We believe that mental health care is a human right. We provide professional psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and groups on a sliding-fee scale. We also offer psychological assessments for a broad-range of mental health issues. We welcome people of all ages, identities, and economic, spiritual, and ethnic backgrounds.• Provide weekly Psychodynamic therapy to a client load of 10 individual clients• Client load includes both male and female-identifying, ages 23-57, Latino, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, ranging from psychotic and borderline to neurotic organizations• Client challenges include depression, anxiety, lack of self-motivation, cognitive limitations, sexual abuse/trauma, grief, marital separation, and compulsive behaviors• Engage in weekly group supervision with 3 other trainees, clinical director, and post-doc intern• Engage in weekly analytic didactic training• Engage in weekly case conferences and present cases with transcripts and recordings for 2 weeks each semester• Engage in weekly individual supervision with a Relational/Analytic orientation• Receive new client intakes during phone shift 3 hours per week• Engage in logistical elements of running a clinic during weekly business meetings