The Conscious Culture Health Psychology Fellowship is a one year postdoctoral pre-licensed training program focused on the Advanced Specialty of Clinical Health Psychology in outpatient care serving Los Angeles and Orange County. The mission of the Resident Fellow Training Program is to advance multi-cultural competence skills among rising professionals in the Specialty of Health Psychology to increase access to culturally relevant mental health care for the ethnically diverse communities of Los Angeles and Orange County. 

CCPC is currently operating virtually with a hybrid schedule, specifically for testing, program consultation, and training/staff meetings and gatherings.

POPULATION: CCPC serves individuals from varied cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds with a mission to reach underserved populations, specifically Native Americans and Latinx, to provide them with culturally relevant therapy. We provide services to individuals with mild to moderate severity of mental illness with a focus on stress disorders including anxiety, complex- and post- traumatic stress disorder, and stress related chronic illness. 

SCHEDULE: The Fellowship begins in August and continues through the following year. The training schedule follows a standard full time schedule of 40 hours per week with business hours from 8 am to 5 pm. Some evening or weekend hours may be required for clinic or community based functions. Fellows work virtually with monthly opportunities for in person contact, specifically for testing, program consultation, and staff meetings, trainings and gatherings. Fellows will spend a minimum of 22 hours of direct service per week involving individual, couples, and group therapy; testing; and psychological report writing. Four hours per week will be dedicated to supervision and training. 

Supervision of fellows is provided by licensed psychologists who carry professional practice responsibility for the cases being supervised. Supervision is designed to meet the supervised professional experience requirements for licensure in the state of California. Fellows receive 2-hours of individual and 2-hours of group didactics per week. Group didactics includes training seminars to support professional development in culturally sensitive trauma informed health psychology service and opportunities to showcase work via a case conceptualization, diagnostic evaluation, and community and self study presentation. 

Training begins with a three month onboarding orientation focused on the policies and procedures at CCPC. During orientation, Fellows will complete the CCPC Post-doctoral Fellow Standards of Competencies Evaluation Form to self rate skills and develop an individualized training plan with their supervisor. Additionally, three written evaluations will be discussed at 90-days to assess adequate onboard training, and at 6-months and 12-months; signed by both parties. The remaining 14-hours per week provide time for training, shadowing, note writing, case management, supervision and training assignments, studying for the EPPP, opportunities for professional leadership development, scholar research, licensure matters including supervised hours documentation, and career planning.