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VIEW A NUMBER OF OUR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES

The goal of Aspire Health Alliance’s Clinical Internship Program is to prepare doctoral-level psychology students for applied clinical practice in community-based, multidisciplinary settings.

We also offer a master’s level social work internship program to approximately 10 students. If you are a social work student, contact your school placement office to see if there is an existing training relationship.

The training faculty is made up of psychologists, social workers, nurses, and psychiatrists from Aspire Health Alliance and our allied training sites. Our staff teaches through seminars and direct supervision. Our supervisors encompass a wide range of theoretical orientations, with expertise in case conceptualization and integrative interventions drawing on psychodynamic, internal family systems (IFS), cognitive-behavioral, family systems, trauma-informed, attachment, and humanistic theories.

This year we will be training six doctoral psychology interns. Two of the interns will be in the Adult track and four will work with children, adolescents, and their families. The Internship Program is divided into three distinct tracks, each of which has an outpatient placement at the Aspire Clinic, 1501 Washington Street, Braintree, MA  and a secondary placement.  These training options are described in further detail below, and include the (A) Child/Adolescent (B) Early Childhood and (C) Adult tracks.

Doctoral Psychology Internships

Thank you for your interest in our internship for doctoral candidates in psychology. Since the agency’s inception in 1963, there has been a continuously running APA accredited doctoral internship for psychology students. The program utilizes a practitioner scholar approach, with an overarching goal of preparing psychologists for applied clinical work in community-based multidisciplinary settings. This is accomplished through clinical supervision of direct service, didactic experience, and exposure to multiple service delivery systems in a managed care environment.

Research and practice are integrated through the distribution and discussion of journal articles and other writings highlighting research contributions to the practice of psychology. This occurs in case presentations, seminars, and supervision.

If you wish to apply to our internship for the 2024-2025 year, please download and review the following documents:

AAPI Online Application

Including a cover letter, CV, graduate transcripts, redacted testing report and three letters of reference.

In regard to COVID-19 changes, our internship program has resumed training in-person (on-site) at all placements, with continued use of telehealth in the provision of some clinical services.

In your cover letter, please let us know which of our tracks and secondary placements are of interest to you and about your interest in training in a community mental health setting. The deadline to submit your application is November 5, 2023. If you have any further questions please contact Emily Adkins, Psy.D., Director of Graduate Student Training, at eadkins@aspirehealthalliance.org.

Our program is committed to policies of non-discrimination in intern selection and hiring on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, physical disability, or other forms of diversity. The training program avoids any actions that would restrict program access on grounds that are irrelevant to success in graduate training. Individuals from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Training Tracks

Training in the doctoral psychology internship program involves one of three tracks, Child/Adolescent, Early Childhood, or Adult. Each track includes a primary outpatient placement and a secondary placement in a different service. Half of an intern’s time is spent at the primary placement each week and the remainder is spent at the secondary site.

A. Child/Adolescent or B. Early Childhood

For interns in the Child/Adolescent and Early Childhood tracks, the primary placement is located at the Aspire Outpatient Clinic at 1501 Washington Street, Braintree, MA.

(A) For the interns in the Child/Adolescent Track, outpatient clinical work will focus on providing individual therapy to clients aged 5-18 and parent guidance/family interventions as needed. One Child/Adolescent intern will complete their secondary rotation at the Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program at McLean Hospital SouthEast in Middleborough, MA. The other two Child/Adolescent secondary placements are at South Shore Educational Collaborative in Hingham, MA. (One intern in the elementary/middle school program and the other intern at an adjoining high school program.

(B) For the intern in the Early Childhood Track, outpatient clinical work will be primarily with 3-10 year-olds.  The Early Childhood track is being funded by a generous grant from the John and Geraldine Weil Memorial Foundation. The secondary placement for the Early Childhood track will be at Aspire Health Alliance’s Step One Early Intervention Program in Quincy, MA, working with infants to three year-old’s and their caregivers.

C. Adult Outpatient/Inpatient

The primary placement for the adult outpatient track is also at Aspire’s Outpatient Clinic, 1501 Washington Street, Braintree, MA. Secondary placements are 6 months each on the inpatient adult unit and partial program at McLean Hospital SouthEast in Middleborough, MA.

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