The Institute of Living currently offers 6 APA-accredited positions, with 9 potential areas of specialty: (1) Adult Inpatient Psychology; 2) Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychology; 3) Psychosis/Persistent Mental Illness; 4) Child and Adolescent School-Based Assessment and Treatment; 5) Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine; 6) LGBTQ+ Gender Affirmative Care; 7) Psychological Assessment; 8) Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy; and 9) Family and Couples Therapy
Please note, we will be interviewing and accepting applications for all of these specialties, with 6 positions available. Decisions regarding admission will be determined based on goodness of fit with the applicant’s training goals and experience. In addition, the Institute of Living also offers non-APA accredited residency positions in Clinical Neuropsychology (APPCN member) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
The Adult and Child Inpatient Psychiatry fellowships involving advanced training in brief acute individual, group, and family therapies as well as consultative services.
The Psychosis/Persistent Mental Illness fellowship involves training and experience in cognitive rehabilitation, intensive outpatient, and inpatient treatment for individuals with schizophrenia and other forms of severe and persistent mental illness.
The School-Based Assessment and Treatment fellowship includes training and experience in assessment and intervention of children and adolescents in a hospital-based special education program.
The Health Psychology program includes training in assessment, consultation, and brief interventions for medical patients, with a variety of potential medical areas including surgical and medical weight loss, cardiology, oncology, transplant, neurology, and men’s/women’s health.
The LGBTQ+ fellowship is a hybrid model where the fellow will provide LGBTQ+ gender-affirmative care within Young Adult Services (YAS) Right Track Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) in addition to helping with a Center for Gender Health Clinic.
The Psychological Assessment fellowship involves advanced training in psychological assessment across the lifespan with emphasis on complex case conceptualization and differential diagnosis.
The Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy fellowship centers on providing clinical care to individuals with Serious Mental Illness utilizing MERIT-informed theory of practice in addition to engaging in research and teaching opportunities that support the dissemination of an innovative and emerging evidenced-based intervention.
The Family and Couples Therapy fellowship centers on providing couples and families theapeutic intervention at the outpatient, intensive-outpatient, and inpatient levels of care.
The Cognitive Behavior Therapy residency is offered through the Institute of Living’s Anxiety Disorder Center and is a one year program with an optional second year.
The Clinical Neuropsychology focus in the first year includes training primarily in a general medical/rehabilitative setting, whereas the second year is assessing patients within an acute psychiatric inpatient setting (Institute of Living). This area of training complies with APA Division 40, INS, and Houston Conference guidelines. Application due date for Neuropsychology Fellowship is 12/11/26.
The department is led by senior Psychologists who adhere to a science-informed model that actively integrates a number of theoretical orientations and empirically supported treatments, including contemporary psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral models.
In addition, our hospital actively participates in a number of important initiatives including a Zero-Suicide program, Trauma-Informed Care, and a robust workplace safety program. The leadership of the Institute of Living, and the broader Hartford Healthcare system, is dedicated to promoting health equity for all and has opportunities for participation and contribution by interested trainees.
