Psychology Doctoral Internship

Psychology Doctoral Internship Program

Welcome to Pine Rest’s Doctoral psychology internship! Here you will find helpful information about our top-notch training program, wonderful faculty and outstanding training facilities.

Our program has been fully accredited by the American Psychological Association since 1982.* We had our most recent site review in 2017 and were re-accredited, with our next self-study/site visit scheduled for 2027.

Match Numbers:

137011 Therapy, Assessment incl. Neuropsychology
137012 Therapy, Assessment incl. Autism Spectrum
137013 Outpatient Therapy, DBT, and Assessment

Doctoral Psychology Internship

Pine Rest’s psychology internship offers the highest quality training to prepare interns for the professional practice of psychology. The training program is based on the Practitioner-Scholar Model, with an emphasis on preparation for independent clinical practice. We provide excellent clinical training in all 9 of APA’s profession-wide competencies and in our program-specific competency: Spirituality.

The Pine Rest internship provides interns experience working across our continuum of care and with our multidisciplinary teams, including senior psychologists and psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, social workers, advanced practice practitioners, and front-line staff. This training equips graduates with the competencies needed to obtain employment in a variety of applied clinical settings, doing a variety of tasks, including psychotherapy (individual, group, family, and couples), assessment, consultation, applied research and quality improvement projects, and supervision. Our training incorporates individual and group supervision, optimal levels of patient contact, and didactic seminars to maximize training experience.

Finally, all of this takes place in an organization where psychology is highly valued (e.g. the CEO is a psychologist) and where the general morale is high. Psychology interns are valued and respected members of the inter-disciplinary teams and are mentored by supportive and expert psychology faculty.