Doctoral Internship Program in Health Service Psychology

The UW Counseling Center offers a Doctoral Internship in Health Psychology. Here you will find information pertaining to this opportunity. Please note this opportunity is specific to doctoral level candidates. The internship matching program code is 162011.

Doctoral internship program overview

We are pleased that you have chosen to review our website describing our APA-Accredited Doctoral Internship Program in Health Service Psychology at the University of Washington Counseling Center. Our internship is one full year starting on August 17^th and concluding on August 16^th of the following year. Intern stipends are $50,000 for 12 months. We hope this page will be useful to you in your search for the right fit for your interests and needs when selecting an internship.

The University of Washington Counseling Center Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology seeks to provide training that is interculturally responsive and culturally humble. We hope to train interns who are skilled in profession-wide competencies in order to serve a diverse public, particularly within the University/College Counseling Center setting. The UWCC endeavors to support psychology interns’ transition toward independent, ethical, and socially responsible practice while contributing to the welfare of society and psychology as a profession. Our training staff is committed to providing flexible, challenging, supportive, and respectful supervision and mentorship toward these goals. The UWCC offers a developmental training model that encourages trainees to engage in graduated tasks of increasing challenge and appropriate support, enhanced through didactic training, supervision, consultation, and mentorship.

Our doctoral internship program received accreditation by the American Psychological Association on November 18, 2011. We are also members of the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies (ACCTA) and the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC), and participate in the APPIC Match process for our internship.

We hope this page will help you find the information you need about our program. If you have any questions about our internship training program, please don’t hesitate to contact us by telephone at 206.543.1240 or e-mail us at counsels@uw.edu (e-mail is preferred). We would be happy to discuss our internship training program with you!

The internship application process is a stressful and time consuming endeavor. We wish you the best in reviewing, researching, writing, and submitting your application. We hope that you give our site careful consideration when deciding where you might apply and welcome your application.

Regards,

UW Counseling Center Training Team

Mission Statement

The University of Washington Counseling Center, acting in support of the academic and student development missions of the University of Washington and the Division of Student Life, provides a safer environment to help students explore the challenges of life and learning through counseling, outreach, preventive programming, advocacy, and consultation. The Counseling Center strives to create a diverse, inclusive, and multicultural learning community. As both a service and training site, the staff is committed to excellence within the college mental health profession. The staff at the Counseling Center affirm the right of all students to receive services that are welcoming, respectful, and culturally competent. Therefore, staff are steadfast in the goal of meeting the needs of a variety of people, including but not limited to, students of diverse racial, ethnic and national backgrounds, sexual/affectional orientations, gender identities, physical and mental abilities, languages, ages, religious/spiritual beliefs, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Clientele served

Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest with a population of over 780,000. The University of Washington (UW) consists of three campuses (Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma), with its main campus in Seattle. The UWCC is located on and serves the main campus. The University of Washington is a public research university that has an ethnically and culturally diverse student body. Seattle’s campus has over 51,000 students (approximately 16,000 graduate students and 35,000 undergraduate students).

Students representing a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds are seen at the Center. Many of the students present with a variety of symptoms and experiences including affective issues, relationship difficulties, disordered eating, substance misuse, and some long-standing psychological concerns. Many students seeking services at the Counseling Center present with developmental problems typical of a traditional college student population, but the counseling center often serves nontraditional students and graduate students as well.

The University and surrounding environment

The University of Washington opened in 1861, on a ten acre tract of hilly wilderness that is now in the heart of downtown Seattle. In 1895, classes began at the present campus, beside Lake Washington, Portage Bay, and Lake Union. Today the campus includes many beautiful buildings and gardens, and the institution enjoys an international reputation for its research, graduate programs, and medical school. Many among our student body commute to the University daily and represent a culturally and ethnically diverse student population.

Surrounded by national parks, forests, and mountains, the greater Seattle area offers its two million residents the cultural and economic diversity of a major city amidst abundant recreation opportunities, and a mild climate in which to enjoy it all.

Training Philosophy

The doctoral internship program’s aim is to prepare, train and develop interculturally responsive and multiculturally competent early-career/entry-level psychologists in health service psychology skilled in profession-wide competencies to serve a diverse public (especially within a university/college setting). The doctoral internship program at the Counseling Center of the University of Washington wants to support and train psychology doctoral interns’/students’ transition into competent, ethical, independently functioning psychologists who will contribute to the welfare of society and to the profession. The professional training model and educational philosophy of the internship program is to provide training grounded in the profession-wide competencies and the scientific principles of the profession, with an emphasis in the area of applied practice in counseling centers. The training staff is committed to providing flexible, challenging, supportive, developmentally-appropriate and respectful supervision and mentorship. UWCC has a developmental training model that encourages trainees to engage in graduated “learning by doing” that is enhanced and deepened with seminars and consultations.

Upon completion of the internship, the developing professional should have sufficient experience in a university counseling center and general psychotherapeutic practices to confidently and competently carry out the responsibilities of an entry level health service psychologist in a variety of settings. Our training is focused on the following APA designated profession-wide competencies:

Research
Ethical and Legal Standards
Individual and Cultural Diversity
Professional Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Assessment
Intervention
Supervision
Consultation and Interprofessional/Interdisciplinary Skills

The primary focus of the internship training is to assist interns in expanding their knowledge and increasing their expertise in counseling with a diverse student population. The training program is committed to providing interns with training in this area. This training encompasses increasing awareness of different identities (e.g. sexual/affectional orientation, physical challenge, nontraditional student age, etc.) and how they affect how we are able to navigate the world around us.

The program is dedicated to the enhancement of the ethical and professional development of interns. Interns are encouraged to make professional contributions in staff case conferences, seminars, and outreach presentations.

We believe that individual change occurs within the context of significant human interaction, and that a strong supervisor-intern relationship is intended to be an important and necessary ingredient for the development of professional competence. Interns are provided with in-depth supervision and the opportunity to be supervised by multiple psychologists throughout the internship year.

Student Disclosure of Personal Information: We affirm the principles set forth in the 2003 APA Ethical Guidelines related to student disclosure of personal information (Ethical Standard 7.04). However, we also acknowledge that personal history/experiences, values, and beliefs may affect professional activities. Interns are encouraged to share information in supervision, consultation, or other activities in which the intern feels that such information may be useful to help them understand their own functioning as a professional. In order to encourage professional development, supervisors or others may ask interns to reflect upon their experiences, values, and/or beliefs if they notice professional behaviors that may indicate personal history affecting professional performance. Interns may always choose what to disclose and how much to disclose and will not be penalized for this choice. Supervision is not therapy, and disclosure of personal information remains the choice of the trainee.

Intern Orientation

During the first six weeks, all interns are introduced to the primary activities of the Counseling Center.

Goals of orientation:

To introduce interns to the training staff and to interact individually with each staff member;
To give interns important information regarding Counseling Center operations, policies and procedures, and to ensure that interns understand their rights and responsibilities as doctoral interns at our site;
To meet with members of various departments within the Division of Student Life as a way of learning more about the overall context within which the Counseling Center operates;
To allow time to set up offices;
To provide an opportunity for interns to get to know each other and the training director;
To allow time for interns to assess their professional growth needs and determine learning goals to be achieved.

During orientation, interns also begin to be involved in didactic and experiential seminars to prepare them to work with clients at our Counseling Center. Interns also begin to provide initial consultations after initial clinical training and may begin to see a few clients during orientation.

Training Activities

Individual supervision

Supervision is a central component of the training program, and licensed psychologists conduct individual primary supervision of interns on a regularly scheduled basis.
Each intern may have at least two primary supervisors during the year, with primary supervisors changing at the conclusion of January. Formal primary supervision time is scheduled for two hours per week.
Interns also choose an emphasis area supervisor; this supervision time is generally formatted around a specialization or focus, depending upon intern and staff interest, and interns meet with their emphasis area supervisors for one hour per week.
Unscheduled supervision/consultation is always available to interns, with the intern’s supervisor or with other staff members.

Group Supervision/Clinical Teams

Interns are involved in weekly, 1.5 hours of group supervision for the first half of the internship experience, and clinical teams during the second half of the year.
As part of their training, interns prepare and present two of their cases in a more structured format during the training year, with the first occurring within group supervision and the other occurring in clinical teams.

Assessment

We offer interns training and experience in psychological assessment. Psychological assessment at the UWCC is driven by the values of:
- (1) creating access to testing for UW students who experience barriers to ADHD evaluation and
- (2) helping interns develop testing skills that are relevant for working with college students using a therapeutic assessment model.
Testing will include evaluation for ADHD, and may also include other evaluations commonly needed by college students.
Interns are also trained in the Therapeutic Assessment (TA) model

Intern check-in with T.D. and intern cohort meetings

Interns meet with the Training Director for one hour on an every-other-week basis.
Interns are encouraged to discuss all aspects of their internship during these meetings.
The Training Director responds to these issues and works to resolve problems if and/or when they arise.
During the weeks they are not scheduled to meet with the Training Director, interns are expected to meet in a non-facilitated cohort group meeting to enhance their collaboration during the internship. They may use this time for consultation around professional development issues, to discuss cases, or for group self-care.

Dissertation and research exploration and support and post-doc support

In a post-doc seminar that occurs every-other-week, interns meet with a staff member to discuss post-doc and licensure processes. Interns receive support, practical information, and a space to ask questions.
Interns meet with a staff member on an every-other-week basis to discuss and process their dissertation and/or other research interests. The staff member collaboratively assists in the planning process for accomplishment of research and/or dissertation goals.
Interns present their dissertation research to the Counseling Center staff during the year.

Professional development

Interns may participate in one of our professional committees at the Center (i.e. Training Committee, Clinical Services Committee, etc.). Membership on these committees provides interns with the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes as well as offer feedback on the general operations of the Counseling Center.

Intern Seminar Series

These didactic and experiential training experiences provide a forum for the training staff and other professionals to present topics on mental health issues and professional development. Some of these training experiences occur in module formats over a period of several weeks that provide the opportunity for a more in-depth exploration of the topics under discussion. Others occur once on a specific topic. The seminar series also focuses on a variety of specific clinically, culturally and professionally relevant topics. A special emphasis is placed on providing psychological services to individuals from different cultures, gender, and perspectives. Some of the topics for this seminar are generated by the needs and interests of the intern group and may include presentations on such topics as substance misuse issues, disordered eating, working with survivors of sexual abuse, and trans health.

Multicultural/diversity and social justice seminar

This seminar meets every week for one hour for the first three quarters of the academic year and then transitions to multicultural case conference. The seminar series focuses on a variety of specific culturally, clinically and professionally relevant topics. A special emphasis is placed on providing psychological services to clients with culturally diverse backgrounds. Interns are expected to engage in critical self-reflection toward a space of intercultural humility.

Professional ethics/legal issues seminar

This seminar offers a review of APA Code of Ethics and Washington State Law relevant to providing psychological services. Professional, ethical and legal issues are also discussed in supervision throughout the internship year.

Supervision seminar

The objective of this seminar is to present information about training and supervision models, as well as both content and process in supervision. Interns will have the opportunity to supervise a peer intern on one case in the summer and will be evaluated on their ability to apply the knowledge and skills they learned.

Suicide seminar

Interns meet for the Suicide seminar to discuss and process the experience of working with suicidal clients beyond assessment.

Direct Service

Direct service activities include individual and group counseling, group supervision and clinical team, outreach, consultation, Counselor-on-Duty crisis services, all equity and diversity meetings, trainings and workshops, and case management.

Intern time allocations

*These numbers are based upon the average of time spent in each activity over four quarters and are subject to change.

Direct Service	*Average Hours Per Week	Average Percent of Time
Individual	16	40.0
Initial Consultations	3.0	10.0
Group Counseling (if no group, add 2 hours to individual counseling)	2.0	5.0
Consultation to University (as needed)	0.5	1.0
Workshops and Outreach	1.0	2.5
TOTAL DIRECT SERVICE AVERAGE	22.5	56.0
Training Activities	*Average Hours Per Week	Average Percent of Time
Individual Supervision (primary and emphasis area)	3.0	7.5
Supervision Preparation	1.0	2.5
Group Supervision/Clinical Teams	1.5	4.0
Supervision of Group Counseling (with Group Co-Facilitator)	0.5	1.0
Case Presentation (two per year)	0.5	1.0
Intern Seminars	2.0	5.0
Therapeutic Assessment	0.5	1.0
Meeting with Training Director or Intern Cohort Meeting	1.0	2.5
Professional Development	See category of Professional Development
TOTAL TRAINING ACTIVITIES AVERAGE	10.0	25.0

Administrative Activities	*Average Hours Per Week	Average Percent of Time
Staff Meetings	1.0	2.5
Committee Meetings	1.0	2.5
Intern Selection	0.5	1.0
Case Management/Recordkeeping	4.0	10.0
TOTAL ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES AVERAGE	6.5	16.0
Professional Development Activities	*Average Hours Per Week	Average Percent of Time
Professional Development Activities	1.0	2.5
TOTAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AVERAGE	1.0	2.5
TOTAL FOR ALL INTERN ACTIVITIES	40.0	99.5
*These numbers are averages; therefore they will not always add up to exactly 40 hours per week or 100%. In addition, interns accrue professional development time up to 4 hours per week for all other professional development activities.

Counseling Center Staff

Counseling Center Staff

Counseling Center staff is comprised of support staff (responsible for daily operations, managing front desk reception, and other duties accordingly), doctoral interns, psychiatric care staff, Schmitz staff, liaison counselors (housed in Schmitz with special relationships with specific student populations), embedded counselors (counselors that have partnerships with other departments or schools, work in those locations, and provide them with direct clinical services), and the Leadership Team (please see below). Kevin Springer, our Program Support Supervisor, oversees our support staff and Lev Cunningham, our embedded counselor in the School of Social Work, is the interim lead of the Embedded Counselors.

Leadership Team

The Counseling Center Leadership Team consists of the Director (Natacha Foo Kune), the Associate Director (Linda Anderson), and the Assistant Directors (Jamie Welch and Hsuan Hsuan Dai). The leadership team members oversee the administrative, clinical, training, and general operations of the Counseling Center. Similar to other staff, members of the leadership team are available for consultations as well as other clinical or training relevant needs. Kevin Springer, the center’s Program Support Supervisor, is also available for non-clinical consultations.

Doctoral Psychology Interns 2023-2024

Yiyu Cheng, M.S. (she/her) Loyola University Chicago
Vanessa Prosper, M.S. (she/her) Wright State University
Herleena K. Verraich, M.S. (she/her/hers) The Chicago School

Intern Applicant FAQ

What is the developmental model?

The doctoral internship training program at the Counseling Center is based on a developmental model of training with increasing levels of challenge and appropriate support throughout the training year. We aim to provide training grounded in the profession-wide competencies and the scientific principles of the profession, with an emphasis on applied practice in counseling centers. It is our belief that interns learn best in a supportive, challenging, experiential, and didactic training environment in which the relationship between the trainees and the trainers is paramount. Our staff are committed to encouraging the interns’ professional growth by honoring the multidimensional aspects of each person and valuing their perspectives and growth experiences within a framework of awareness of diversity in the world, themselves, colleagues, and clients – as well as how diversity/difference, power, privilege, oppression, and social justice issues affect not only the individual and the campus community but the larger community as well.

What is the culture like at UWCC?

Prior interns have described the culture at UWCC to be busy, supportive, challenging, and fun. UWCC is a fast-paced counseling center that serves many students daily. While training staff understand and acknowledge the embedded hierarchy in a training program, interns have reported that the culture still feels collegial and collaborative with a team-oriented, consultative, and friendly environment.

What is an emphasis area?

An emphasis area can be either a type of service or a particular clinical issue that you want to gain greater expertise with. Emphasis areas can be half-year or full-year depending on the topic. Each intern is able to choose one of the emphasis areas that are offered by staff and will meet with their emphasis area supervisor weekly. Emphasis area tasks might include facilitating a group, working with a particular committee on campus, or learning a new therapeutic technique. Typical, emphasis areas that are offered include: training and supervision at a university counseling center, trauma, mindfulness, tabletop role playing game therapy, and multi-cultural issues. Staff availability, intern interests, and the needs of the center are determinants in which areas of emphasis are offered.

Generally speaking, what have former interns said about their experiences at UWCC?

We highly recommend that applicants contact current interns to gain perspectives on what training here can be like. We think it is best for all parties when interns are able to have fuller knowledge about what we offer and which areas of training are more limited. Our staff recognize that internship is the capstone of your doctoral-level education, and interns should expect to feel supported as a trainee. UWCC is a busy and rigorous environment. Each intern who comes to our internship site will have specific skills and experiences that will both benefit the clinical team as well as the University community. Interns have noted that the feedback they offer the team about their experiences is taken seriously and held with integrity. Many interns also have said they feel integrated as part of the UWCC team.

What characteristics would be best for an UWCC intern to have?

Interns that report having a successful and beneficial year at UWCC usually have 1) self-awareness to accurately assess both strengths and areas of growth and utilize this knowledge to be able to sculpt their training experiences and needs; 2) the ability to balance being a trainee and a professional with the ability to learn, ask questions, seek guidance, and absorb the information being provided while also developing confidence in their own skills and strengths and abilities; 3) time management and the ability to handle a busy and rigorous year of training; 4) interest in the training provided by the UWCC and the role and duties of a health service psychologist; and 5) self-care coping strategies.

How is self-care for interns supported?

There are several ways that an internship at UWCC will offer self-care activities. As an intern you are offered the excellent health benefits that permanent staff are offered. Interns are also eligible for University holidays and personal holidays, as well as sick time and annual leave. The UWCC is a center that also likes to have fun, and there is a Connection Committee that manages several events throughout the year (i.e. annual picnic, karaoke, quarterly games night, etc.).

Is it true that it rains all the time in Seattle? What’s the surrounding area like? What do people do there?

Many Seattle residents are drawn to the area because of the weather. It does rain frequently during our wet season, particularly during the late fall and winter months. However, the rain tends to be much lighter and does not tend to accumulate as it does in other areas of the US. Frequent rain means an overall cooler temperature and a lush, year-round green landscape (hence our nickname, the Emerald City). A lot of our interns appreciate living in Seattle because of the environmental beauty of the Northwest. We are surrounded by gorgeous mountains and close to the Puget Sound. Seattle also has major lakes (Lake Washington, Lake Union, and Green Lake) where boating, swimming, and walking trails are available. Seattle is also known for its coffee roasting, craft beer industry, and music scene. There are many fun, affordable activities in and around the city. Seattle also has an extensive transit system any many bicycle accommodations (parking, bike lanes, etc.), so many residents are able to live here without a car.

Admissions, support, and initial placement data

Our National Computer Match Program Code number is 162011

Admissions

While the primary function of the Counseling Center is to provide counseling services to students of the University of Washington, the Counseling Center maintains a strong commitment to facilitating each intern’s transition from trainee to professional psychologist. We look for applicants who are flexible and interested in learning, but who also have the training, experience, interpersonal skills, counseling skills, and maturity to offer quality services under the supervision of our professional staff. Specifically, we require the following:

Candidates must be from APA or CPA accredited programs in psychology.
Candidates must have majored in counseling or clinical psychology, and must have completed all required courses for the doctorate (at least three years of graduate study)
Candidates must have provided a minimum of 500 hours of direct contact experience to clients accrued before the application deadline of November 1st. There is no minimum for assessment hours. Because there is an assessment portion of the internship, some preference may be given to applicants with some assessment experience.
Candidates must have seen at least 20 individual clients.
Candidates must have experience providing counseling/psychotherapy and have appropriate supervision, especially one-on-one with a psychologist (at least 75 hours).
All probations and criminal activity will be reviewed by the training director but are not automatically removed from consideration.
Candidates must have experience practicing in the University Counseling Center setting.
Candidates must have passed their doctoral qualifying examinations by the application deadline of November 1st and be certified by their academic director of training as ready for the internship experience.
Candidates must have had their dissertation proposal approved by the application deadline of November 1st.
It is not a requirement that candidates must have defended their dissertations by our application deadline, but there is a strong preference that applicants will have completed their dissertations before the start of internship. The doctoral internship is an intensive learning experience and interns are more able to focus on the internship if the work on their dissertations is completed as they will likely have more energy and time for self-care.
Interns at the University of Washington Counseling Center receive ongoing, evaluative feedback from supervisors throughout the training year. These evaluations are comprehensive in nature and are based on our program’s training model, philosophy, goals and objectives, and the profession-wide competencies and benchmarks established by our profession. Some doctoral programs require their students to have additional training contracts and/or evaluations completed by their internship programs. The University of Washington Counseling Center internship does not enter into training contracts with academic training programs, and the UWCC supervisors do not complete evaluations on interns developed by academic training programs. Your program may choose to use the data from the University of Washington Counseling Center’s evaluations to complete their own forms. You are strongly encouraged to consult with your Director of Clinical Training or the University of Washington Counseling Center Training Director if you have questions about this policy.
Candidates should be prepared to work with clients with various presenting issues/concerns and intersecting identities. As a staff, we are deeply committed to developing our own multicultural competencies as well as promoting social justice and cultural humility for ourselves and those of our doctoral psychology interns. An understanding of the impact of culture is integrated into every aspect of the work we do in direct services, training, scholarly activity and research. We define culture and diversity broadly, allowing our definition to encompass racial and ethnic differences, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, nationality, acculturation, religious affiliation, ability status and so forth. Comprehensive understanding of the impact of culture is seen by our staff as an integral ingredient of competent psychological practice. We ascribe to APA’s position statement “Preparing Professional Psychologists to Serve a Diverse Public: A Core Requirement in Doctoral Education and Training” which can be found at http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/policy/diversity-preparation.aspx.
We train interns to be well-rounded professional psychologists with the profession-wide competencies to serve clients representing different forms of diversity. In providing this training, we commit ourselves to creating a supportive training environment that allows for self-exploration and the development of cognitive flexibility. All of our doctoral psychology interns are required to engage in learning about the range of multicultural competencies, oppression and privilege and interns must demonstrate willingness to serve people who represent the full range of intersecting identities. Refusal to engage in these efforts or meet the required competency level for interns may result in remediation and/or dismissal from the program.

Selection process

On-line application materials are screened by an intern selection committee. Applicants are evaluated by this committee based on submitted materials. Applicants whose training, experience, and professional goals most closely allign the training opportunities available at the UW Counseling Center will be invited to participate in a telephone or virtual interview. All applicants will be notified by 12/12/2025 if they have been invited to interview. These 40-minute interviews are virtually or by phone during the last two weeks of December and the first two weeks of January. UWCC usually offers 30-35 interviews per year. The training program at the UW Counseling Center adheres to the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers’ (APPIC) guidelines regarding offers and acceptances. UWCC participates in the APPIC Matching Program for Psychology Internship Positions & the APPIC Form for Letters of Recommendation available on the APPI website. For additional information regarding the APPIC Internship Matching Program, please contact www.natmatch.com/psychint/.

If matched with UWCC, the University will conduct a national criminal conviction background check at no cost to the applicant. While hiring is contingent upon successful completion of a background check, a criminal conviction is not an automatic bar to being hired at UWCC. Eligibility for hiring will be determined by the UWCC administration in consultation with UW Human Resources. Applicants who match to UWCC but do not successfully pass this background check will not be hired as interns (see APPIC Match Policy 6b). See RCW 43.43.830 for relevant Washington state regulatory guidelines/definitions.

Application procedures

Applications reviewed will include the following:

AAPI Online* (Application for Psychology Internship) with the following elements attached:
- Cover letter describing how you would be a good fit for our program. Please be specific about your goals for internship and how our particular program will help you meet these goals
- Curriculum vitae
- All graduate transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation: at least two of which must be from clinical supervisors, and at least one supervisor must have viewed the applicant’s counseling either live or by electronic video recordings.

*Our site requires the AAPI Online, which may be accessed at www.appic.org.

**This internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any intern applicant.

*** All materials MUST be available for review online by NOVEMBER 1, 2025 by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time*** We encourage applicants to apply ahead of the deadline as we rarely accept late applications.

Financial and other benefit support for the upcoming training year

Annual stipend/salary for full-time interns: $50,000
Annual stipend/salary for part-time interns: N/A
Program provides access to medical insurance: Yes
Trainee contribution to cost required: Yes
Coverage for family member(s) available: Yes
Coverage for legally married partner available: Yes
Coverage for domestic partner available: Yes

Hours of vacation time off & personal holidays: 118* (accrued at 10 hours/month, 1 personal holiday)
Hours of sick time off: 88* (accrued at 8 hours/month)

*All time off needs to be approved by the TD and it is strongly encouraged that interns allocate of week of vacation time off for the last week of internship. Please be mindful of the 2000 hour requirement when requesting time off (see leave policies).

In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, the program allows reasonable unpaid leave to interns in excess of vacation and sick time off. This happens with negation with UW’s Human Resources and the TD.

Other benefits (some are optional):

Dental and vision insurance
Life insurance
Short-term and/or long-term disability insurance
11 paid state holidays
Access and use of library and library resources, recreational facilities
Transportation pass (called the U-PASS, for unlimited bus and light rail use)

Initial Post-Internship Positions

	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
Total number of interns	3	3	3

	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
Academic teaching
Community mental health center
Consortium
University Counseling Center	1		1
Hospital/Medical Center		1
Veterans Affairs Health Care System
Psychiatric facility
Correctional facility
Health maintenance organization
School district/system
Independent practice setting	2	2	2
Other (Academic Psychology Department)

Equal opportunity and disability accommodation

The University of Washington reaffirms its policy of equal opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran in accordance with University policy and applicable federal and state statutes and regulations.

The University of Washington is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities.

To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at:

206-543-6450/Voice
206-543-6452/TTY
206-685-7264 (FAX)
dso@uw.edu