Clinical psychology students are at a significant disadvantage when applying to externships, internships and postdoctoral fellowships. The number of students vastly outnumbers the amount of training sites. Training clinical students is not only rewarding, but it can be an excellent business model as well.
What you can gain from creating a training program:
Offer a sliding scale fee in order to help your community and have your practice earn more income
Offer more hours that your practice can be in operation since you have more clinicians
Stay up to date about recent literature and empirically supported interventions by having a student in the practice
Create a larger network of professionals
Offer more diverse services based upon your student’s area of expertise
About the Training Program
Dr. Davidson successfully established the Clinical Training Program at Behavioral Associates. Currently, the program hosts a mix of 6 postdoctoral fellows, clinical externs and social work interns. In addition to seeing a case load of 15-30 clients each, each member of the training program participates in the Community Clinic, an initiative that provides Neuropsychological Testing to community members at an affordable rate.
What you should know
Dr. Davidson can walk you through the process of creating, implementing, and maintaining a bustling training program. It’s not as difficult as you may think.
Contact us to schedule a free 15-minute phone call to see if this is something you’d like to pursue further.
About: Dr. Heather Davidson is a Licensed Psychologist and Board Certified Neurofeedback Provider in New York State. Although she is an expert in Child Psychology, Dr. Davidson works with patients of all ages.
