Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Clinical Psychology

MARI Fellowships Overview

Our clinical psychology post-doctoral fellowships are designed to provide advanced training in professional psychology. Our fellowships start on the 2nd-to-last Monday in August, and run for 12 months. If a fellow is unable to complete internship prior to August 31st, we can arrange a September 1st start. Fellows may stay for a second year by mutual consent. The program prepares fellows for licensure in the State of Michigan or other states with similar requirements.

Fellowship Eligibility

Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree from an APA-Accredited program in clinical, counseling, or school psychology, and must have completed an APA-accredited internship in order to be considered.

MARI Fellowship Stipends and Benefits

The first year postdoctoral stipend is $42,000; the second year fellowship stipend is $43,000. Medical insurance and generous paid time off (see the FELLOWSHIP BROCHURE for details) are included.

Commitment to Diversity

We have a strong commitment to creating an environment that is positive and supportive of growth around individual and cultural differences. We welcome applications from all people and encourage those of non-traditional backgrounds and underrepresented communities to apply.

Program Details

Fellows receive robust, advanced training in many key professional competencies, including:

• Assessment and diagnosis
• Psychological testing
• Intervention including individual, group, couples, and family therapy
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Multicultural competencies
• Clinical teaching and provision of clinical supervision
• Leadership and administrative skills

These competencies are enhanced through direct clinical service with supervision from expert clinicians, participation in seminars, clinical meetings, and conferences, and consultation with other professionals outside the clinic. Fellows have opportunities to teach psychology interns and social work students, and to supervise the clinical work of junior trainees. In addition, fellows participate in senior staff meetings and work groups.

We espouse a scientist-practitioner model that emphasizes the importance of integrating scientific data and inquiry into our training and clinical work; training in a wide variety of evidence-based treatments; immersion in clinical services including individual, group, and couples psychotherapy, as well as psychological testing; broad training across a wide variety of clients with varying diagnoses and presenting problems, and across a wide array of evidence-based and theoretically varied intervention techniques;
the importance of providing intensive and varied supervision; and training in a supportive, multidisciplinary setting with supervisors dedicated to this task, and among a large cohort of multidisciplinary trainees at various levels.

Fellows are integral members of our highly experienced, multidisciplinary treatment teams. They participate in staff meetings and discussions, and their suggestions and observations about our service delivery system are seriously considered. We carefully tailor training experiences to the fellows’ interests and professional goals.

Adult Fellowship

The U-M Psychological Clinic focuses on the assessment and treatment of adults from our campus as well as the community. We offer individual, couples and group therapy interventions.

• The Psychological Clinic was established in 1938 and has been committed to training in psychology for nearly a century.
• Fellows work with a wide scope of evidence-based treatment approaches, including interpersonal, cognitive, behavioral, emotion-focused, couples and/or systems, mindfulness-based, strength-based, biological/psychiatric, and brief psychodynamic approaches.
• Fellows treat a wide range of adult outpatients including people who experience anxiety, depression, interpersonal problems, adjustment difficulties, emotion dysregulation, and a full range of other presenting concerns.

Child Fellowship

The University Center for the Child and Family (UCCF) assesses and and treats children, adolescents, and families from our campus and community.

• UCCF was established in 1988, and over decades has established itself as a respected center for psychology training, as well as a valued community resource for high-quality mental health assessments and treatment for children, adolescents and families.
• Fellows gain experience working in all of the basic areas of child and family work, integrating a wide range of perspectives when assessing and treating clients. The studied perspectives include biological, behavioral, cognitive, attachment-based, family systems, and community/cultural approaches.
• Opportunities may exist for interested fellows to complete outreach in the community including presenting workshops and consulting at local preschools.