It is with both sadness and hope that the UNC Counseling Center has made the determination to withdraw from the 2024-25 internship year Match process due to unforeseen circumstances that has impacted known/anticipated staffing patterns for the upcoming internship year. For those who applied to our program, we extend our most humble apologies as well as gratitude for your interest in our training program and the community we serve. While we know we can't repay time, emotional labor, or offset disappointment that might come from this decision, our understanding is that application fees will be reimbursed. We are actively in communication with APA, APPIC, and NMS during this process moving towards "accredited, inactive" status for the 2024-25 training year. That said, we fully anticipate that our site will be better positioned so as to be able to participate in the Match process next fall for the 2025-26 training year. Once that is known/officially sanctioned, we will be sure to update this section accordingly.
Our Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology is designed to provide broad-based generalist training in activities carried out by psychologists in a university counseling center. Interns will develop competence in individual & group therapy; intake assessment; provision of supervision; crisis intervention; outreach; personality assessment; and ethical and multicultural practice. Our philosophy of training incorporates a developmental-apprenticeship perspective that combines mentorship and experiential learning to foster increasing autonomy. Overall, we seek to create an atmosphere of respect and trust where interns and professional staff support each others' growth. Diversity is celebrated and integrated into all aspects of training. Staff members utilize a variety of theoretical orientations, including interpersonal, feminist, existential-humanistic, systems, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, mindfulness-based, etc. We recognize that each intern brings a variety of skills, experience, and training needs to the internship and that some flexibility is necessary for optimal growth. This is accomplished by providing individualized supervision goals, customized outreach and consultation projects, opportunities for special interest areas, and intern input for various seminars and activities. We see the internship year as a critical transition period. We seek to assist in this developmental process by providing interns opportunities to stretch, take risks, and try out different interventions and approaches. Interns are expected to develop greater proficiency in delivering evidence-based interventions. Furthermore, interns will develop and hone greater sensitivity to, and respect for, the multicultural world in which we exist. We are looking for flexible, motivated, open individuals who want to learn and grow, and who are passionate about providing services to the college population. We seek applicants whose career goals involve working in a university setting and who have at least 100 hours of individual therapy experience specifically with the adult population. Limited after-hours and weekend work are required (and for which, flex time is offered).