The YCS Institute currently offers two internship tracks: the Institute Track and the Bilingual Spanish Track. Both tracks provide opportunities to work with infants, children, adolescents, and adult caregivers, with treatment informed by attachment, object relations, developmental, and family systems orientations.

In both tracks, interns work with clients across the lifespan, providing individual play therapy, parent consultation, family therapy, and dyadic (parent–child) psychotherapy in our outpatient clinic. The Bilingual Spanish Track is designed for interns who are fluent in Spanish and English and wish to focus more heavily on serving Hispanic and Latinx children and families, while still gaining experience with a wide range of clients and presenting concerns.

All interns provide outpatient services at their primary site and also complete rotations to broaden their experience. Treatment cases may span from birth through adulthood, while assessment opportunities include clients from birth through age 21. Assessment batteries cover cognition, achievement, and personality functioning, with training in the Rorschach preferred. Interns receive individual and group supervision and participate in weekly didactic seminars and case conferences.

It is important to note that while working with infants and toddlers is included in the training experience, this is only one part of the internship. To ensure a well-rounded clinical experience, interns are expected to work with children and families across all developmental stages.