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Psychotherapy Practicum

St. Paul, MN (on-site)
Temporary
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Job Description

The Center for Conscious Alchemy offers a training program from September-May for Master’s-level students seeking a psychotherapy practicum. To submit a completed application, please send a cover letter, resume, unofficial graduate transcript, and two current letters of recommendation.

We are unable to provide training outside of this schedule. Trainees are asked to commit to the above training time frame.

Deadlines and Other Important Dates

  • Applications are accepted up until midnight the first Sunday in February
  • Application reviews and invitations for interviews begin the first Monday in February
  • A subset of applicants will be invited to interview for practicum placements the second week in February

Required Application Materials

  • Cover letter and resume
  • Unofficial transcript of graduate training
  • 2 current letters of recommendation that speak to your qualifications, competence, and interests in mental health and psychotherapy

‍Email complete application materials to amy.wheelecor@consciousalchemy.co

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Please note: We are unable to accommodate early reviews and interviews.

Incomplete applications will not be reviewed for practicum placement.

Key Responsibilities
Care Domain
What It Looks Like at CCA

Practicum Training Components

  • Psychotherapy experience working in a collegial, communitarian, and supportive clinic
  • Development of professional identity, theoretical orientation, and therapy skills
  • Development of scholar-practitioner and generalist skills in providing therapy
  • Experience with group, family, and couples therapy as available and based on referrals
  • Training in diagnostic assessment, case conceptualization, clinical documentation and electronic health records (EHR), clinical consultation, ethical decision-making, risk assessment, and treatment planning
  • Opportunities to learn from clinicians in practice, including exposure to a variety of education and training backgrounds, and theoretical orientations
  • Opportunities for clinical consultation and feedback from colleagues, supervisors, and peers in biweekly case consultation and individual and group supervision
  • Supervision is competency-based, communitarian, developmental, and relational.
  • Practicum students receive a minimum of 1-hour of individual and 1-hour of group supervision weekly
  • Practicum students participate in training (1 hour weekly), case presentations, outreach activities, and psychoeducation presentations to community and CCA staff
  • Trainees participate in a Journal Club, reviewing a variety of evidence-based topics from peer-reviewed journals. Topics based on cohort interests.
  • Practicum students participate in the application review, interview, and selection of the next cohort of practicum applicants
  • Opportunities to learn about Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

Program Values of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (EDIA)

  • EDIA Topics:
    • Cultural Humility
    • Intercultural Effectiveness
    • White Privilege 
    • Implicit Bias
    • Anti-Racism
    • ADDRESSING Model
    • Intersectionality
    • Broaching Behavior
    • Independent/Interdependent Construals of Self
    • Individualism and Collectivism
    • Religion, Faith, Spirituality
    • Gender Identities, Roles, and Expressions
  • EDIA Expectations for Practicum Students:
    • Incorporate and integrate attunement, sensitivity, and respect for diversity variables in clinical care of clients and in professional relationships
    • Facilitate discussions on EDIA topics in case consultation and individual and group supervision
    • Formal case presentation: presentation must include at least one salient, central facet of diversity incorporating EDIA frameworks and discussion topics