Lorenz Clinic of Family Psychology offers a Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology. Lorenz Clinic trains interns to become competent, ethical, responsible professionals with a primary emphasis in service to children, adults, couples, and families. The training program seeks to train interns to reach developmentally-appropriate levels of competence related to APA’s Profession-Wide Competencies. Supervision within the training program is generally governed by policies the clinic has adopted from APA’s Guidelines for Clinical Supervision in Health Service Psychology (APA, 2014) as well as other sources. Interns are expected to train at a level appropriate to doctoral level interns, and will continue in their learning from their graduate programs and apply knowledge from their doctoral level program. The training program's goal is to improve the quality of therapy in our community by training various pre licensed clinicians, including psychology interns. The clinic is guided by its core values, which are social obligation, professionalism, quality, reflectiveness, and development. It is expected that interns will complete the internsihp with a network and are well-prepared for independent practice. The focus is on developing the intern journey and improving the overall experience of training, to ensure that the focus remains on training and development. Lorenz Clinic provides 5 hours of supervision every week, 3 of which are individual supervision hours with a Licensed Psychologist and 2 of which are group supervisin hours with a Licensed Psychologist. An additional 2.5 hours per week of didactics are offered in training for psychological assessment, psychological supervision, psychotherapy with children and adults, and social equity.

The training experience is tailored to each student’s unique learning goals and professional developmental level expected of a graduate-level intern.  Interns are expected to develop a working learning contract and regularly update this with their primary supervisor.  Interns can expect to gain experience and training specific to private practice (e.g., diagnostic formulation, documentation standards, interfacing with child protection, etc.).  Interns are expected to maintain a regular patient caseload which includes individual outpatient therapy and psychological assessment to create intentional generalist psychology training. Expectations for interns will be developmentally adjusted to be more challenging than expectations for a doctoral practicum student but less challenging than expectations for a postdoctoral fellow or liensed psychologist. Interns are expected to develop the appropriate foundational training to begin a Postdoctoral Fellowship upon completion of the doctoral internship or for independent licensure in states or provinces which do not require postdoctural pre licensure practice.

The Internship includes a rich invited speaker series which have included presentations from Drs. Mac Baird, Irvin Yalom, Bruce Perry, Pauline Boss, Sue Johnson, Mary Catherine Bateson, Harry Aponte, Peter Zelles, David Hong, Bill Doherty, and Ed Watkins, Jr.