Internship Admissions, Support and Initial Placement Data

Internship Admissions, Support and Initial Placement Data

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Internship Program Admissions

Briefly describe in narrative form important information to assist potential applicants in assessing their likely fit with your program. This description must be consistent with the program’s policies on intern selection and practicum and academic preparation requirements:

Candidates must be enrolled in an APA or CPA accredited doctoral program in counseling, clinical, or closely related area of psychology. Applicants must be in good standing with their academic department, must have defended dissertation proposal by the start of internship and pass comprehensive exams by the ranking deadline. Applicants should be prepared to work with clients presenting with moderate psychopathology and to see clients presenting with a wide range of clinical challenges (ex: mood and anxiety, interpersonal or personality difficulties, trauma or abuse recovery, eating disorder and body image disturbance, alcohol and other drug use concerns, identity issues including sexual orientation, gender identity, cultural identity, etc.). Applicants must be comfortable working with a diverse clientele. College counseling practicum or adjacent experiences are required. Because the CCSD’s training activities include group therapy and providing supervision, a prospective intern should have practicum experience that incorporated at least one of these modalities.

Our center is a busy one. Each year we provide care for around 2,000 clients, providing dozens of outreaches, hundreds of consultations, many therapy groups and around 10,000 individual appointments. Our staff is multi-disciplinary and includes psychologists, sport psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, professional counselors, and a great administrative support team. Each day on internship varies and involves a combination of the following: training seminars, individual therapy, group therapy, staff meeting, case consultation, outreach presentations to various populations, providing individual supervision to externs in the spring semester, and consultation with students/faculty/staff, etc. It's hard work and we are very committed to and passionate about what we do. We also like to smile and laugh when possible and connect with each other in doing our work.

For the 2026-2027 training year, interns may also have the opportunity to receive supervised experience in providing psychological assessment to UD students (depending on intern interest).  Involvement in provision of psychodiagnostic testing batteries is NOT a requirement of internship, however.

Does the program require that applicants have received a minimum number of hours of the following at time of application? If Yes, indicate how many:

Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:

• We require applicants to be attending an APA or CPA accredited graduate program in Counseling or Clinical Psychology.
• We require applicants to have completed 500 hours of direct contact intervention hours prior to the start of internship.

Financial and Other Benefit Support for Upcoming Training Year*

For the 2026–2027 training year, four internship positions are available. The internship is for the period from July 13, 2026, through July 16, 2027.

If access to medical insurance is provided:

Other Benefits (please describe): Time away for professional development, possible funding for professional development (depending on availability and subject to approval), dental insurance and accidental insurance are provided. Health insurance includes generous benefits for personal counseling. For more information about health insurance benefits, please see UD Wellbeing Fees and Insurance. Additionally, interns receive a bi-weekly self-care hour and are covered by the University’s general professional liability insurance. Please note that CCSD has staff-wide blackout dates during the first three weeks of the semester, at which time no leave should be taken (except under extraordinary circumstances).  If you have anticipated conflicts with these blackouts dates, please let the Associate Director for Training know ASAP.

*Programs are not required by the Commission on Accreditation to provide all benefits listed in this table

Initial Post-Internship Positions

(Provide an Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts)***

Note: “PD” = post-doctoral residency position; “EP” = employed position. Each individual represented in this table should be counted only one time. For former trainees working in more than one setting, select the setting that represents their primary position.

***Please note that our internship was placed on a voluntary pause from 2021–2023; therefore, data from our most recent preceding cohorts is listed.

2024–2025 Doctoral Intern Class and Home Institution/Program:

• Douglas Glenn, Virginia Consortium Program, Clinical Psychology PhD
• Emily Junkin, Virginia Consortium Program, Clinical Psychology PhD
• Brooke Kohler, Lehigh University, Counseling Psychology PhD
• Ryann Siegel, Loyola University of Maryland, Clinical Psychology PsyD

A list of previous interns since 1977 can be found here