Post-Doctoral Residency/Post-Internship Clinical Fellowship

Candidates will be able to select from one of the following emphasis areas after they have accepted the position. All emphasis areas will be available to choose from for the upcoming fellowship/residency year. Each emphasis area will include both direct clinical experience and didactic training.

Training & Clinical Supervision – Coming Soon!

Complex Trauma Assessment and Intervention  

Emphasis Supervisor: Dukhae Sung, PhD, LP

This emphasis area aims to examine, process, and integrate contemporary trauma research, models, and evidence-based approaches to trauma assessment and interventions. You will learn how trauma is defined socially, culturally, and clinically, as well as how to assess and identify trauma narratives in your clients. The emphasis will cover the neurobiology of traumatic stress (e.g., ANS, Polyvagal Theory) and psychological and physiological repercussions of complex PTSD (e.g., adverse childhood experiences study and developmental trauma; attachment dysregulation; dissociation). In this way, you will learn to process trauma within the “Window of Tolerance,” to minimize the likelihood of re-traumatization and facilitate affect regulation and self-containment among clients. You will learn to assess complex PTSD symptoms within other diagnoses, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and dissociative disorders and utilize assessment tools to better inform treatment planning. You will develop a framework for integrative treatment for complex PTSD, drawn from EMDR Therapy, Parts Work Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Somatic Psychology, and mind-body therapies that will help clients feel resourced while engaging in effective trauma processing. In the context of neuroplasticity and posttraumatic growth, you will employ empowerment and resilience to foster relational regulation and integration of a coherent sense of self in your clients. Lastly but most importantly, you will be encouraged to connect to self-regulation practices to improve the therapeutic alliance and prevent burnout. 

LGBTQ Empowerment, Identity Development and Affirming Care

Emphasis Supervisor: Ginny Blakely, LMSW

This emphasis will include clinical focus, competency and humility training in a university setting, working with sexually and gender-diverse clients, including but not limited to identities such as questioning, lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer, as well as gender-diverse identities, including but not limited to gender-questioning, gender-exploring, transgender, nonbinary and genderqueer. Other areas of focus with these populations could include relationship styles, attractionality, intersectional identities and minority stress. Through individual and group therapy, supervision, liaison, and outreach opportunities, clinicians will learn queer, trans, feminist and multicultural approaches to foster and support identity development from LGBTQ-identified and experienced supervisors.

Clinical experiences can be tailored to the clinician’s areas of interest and could include the following:

1. Specialized case load to serve LGBTQ clients from an intersectional, social justice lens toward queer and trans BIPOC students
2. Co-facilitation LGBTQ support groups (through existing groups or creating a new one)
3. Supervision and mentorship from an LGBTQ-identified clinician
4. Exposure to various theories and models of identity development, including principles of structural systems of oppression and intersectionality
5. Learning to assess and further develop an awareness of one’s own biases, prejudices, and assumptions and how to navigate and manage them
6. Integrated work with MSU’s Student Health Services Trans Health team
7. Liaison work with campus partners, including LGBTQ registered student organizations and MSU’s Gender and Sexuality Campus Center
8. Opportunity to present case presentation(s) and/or clinical forums relevant to working LGBTQ clients
9. Outreach opportunities (CAPS Connect, collaborations, presentations, etc.)
10. Risk management skills and LGBTQ resources
11. Critical resource and community connection through case management skills
12. Professional use of self and self-disclosure
13. WPATH gender-affirming care letters/referrals experience and training
14. Quest Training: Building Capacity for LGBTQA+ Inclusion

Multicultural Engagement and Outreach

Emphasis supervisor: Olivia Scott, PhD

We maintain a philosophy that is ‘multiculturally focused’ and as a result, our outreach efforts are necessarily, inherently and intentionally culturally sensitive and racially responsive. Outreach is our means of engaging in the lives of those connected to our MSU Community and beyond; it is our goal to reach out to those that might not otherwise be comfortable accessing more traditional services through CAPS. Outreach involves awareness, education, stigma reduction, prevention, and collaboration by providing informational services, workshops, campus-wide programming, consultation and student support among other ways of engaging our community. This emphasis area will provide a very experiential, hands-on opportunity to be involved in Outreach and Multicultural Initiatives in connection to MSU CAPS. Engagement in this selected emphasis will involve participation on our Outreach Committee and related functions of program development, implementation and evaluation; mentorship, leadership and administrative exposure in this area; community and student engagement; and some needed flexibility and fun.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Emphasis Supervisor: Josh Turchan, PhD

This emphasis area will focus on experiential and didactic training in multiculturally centered brief and short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy with college-aged adults. We will integrate and conceptualize both cultural and developmental influences on the origin and maintenance of psychological problems. This emphasis will focus on developing a contemporary and pluralistic approach to psychodynamic psychotherapy with an emphasis on relational/interpersonal psychodynamic theory and treatment, while also exploring and getting exposure to a variety of psychodynamic theories and evidence-based psychodynamic treatments. This emphasis will focus on the primacy of the therapy relationship as a mechanism of change and will encourage the formal and informal assessment of psychotherapy processes. Residents who select this emphasis will gain experience in using therapeutic assessment to inform and shape treatment, helping them and the patient collaboratively gain a better understanding of their presenting concerns. As part of this emphasis, the candidate will also have the opportunity to co-lead an Interpersonal Process group to further enhance here-and-now relational/interpersonal interventions. The goal of this emphasis is to provide the resident an opportunity to further develop their identity and skills in culturally-centered psychodynamic practice working in a collegiate mental health system.

Post-Internship Fellows/Post-doctoral Residents are expected to complete about 55% to 60% of their weekly experiential training in the provision of direct services.

Direct Service: (55%: 22 hours)

Indirect Service: (45%: 18 hours)

Qualifications

Post internship Clinical Fellows

• Must have completed an APA-accredited doctoral internship in professional psychology by start date.
• Must be currently enrolled in an APA-accredited doctoral program in counseling or clinical psychology and have ABD status.
• To aid in protecting privacy and minimizing potential conflict of interest for those who train at CAPS, applicants to our training program must not have received clinical services from MSU CAPS within 3 years from date of application. Triage/initial consultations and referral coordination appointments will not considered clinical services affecting eligibility.

Post-doctoral Resident

• Must have graduated with a doctoral degree in professional psychology from an APA-accredited program and must be license eligible in the state of MI.

Benefits

• A stipend of $45,000
• 22 sick/vacation days (5 of which must be used at the end of training) plus university holidays
• If a post-doctoral resident, we will pay the cost to become licensed in the state of MI.
• 2 hrs per week to work on dissertation or study for EPPP
• We anticipate that professional development funds and professional development time may be offered

We are now accepting applications for two Post-Doctoral Residency/Post-Internship Clinical Fellow in Health Service Psychology positions you can view them and apply here.

First review of Applications: January 8, 2027

Applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled.

Please include the following:

• A cover letter
• Self-Reflective Practice Essay: We invite you to reflect deeply on your personal and professional journey in working with individuals from varied backgrounds and life experiences. Share your guiding principles regarding respect, fairness, and responsiveness in contexts, and how these values have shaped your approach as a clinician.
• CV
• Three (3) letters of recommendation (Applicants must upload the letters to the application portal)
• Transcripts from graduate program and written verification from your DCT that you are enrolled in good standing or on track for graduation (Applicants must upload this verification to the applicant portal).

Special note regarding emphasis areas: You will select the emphasis area after you have accepted the offer. All of the following emphasis) areas will be available for the candidate to select from:

• Complex Trauma Assessment and Intervention
• LGBTQ Empowerment, Identity Development and Affirming Care
• Multicultural Engagement and Outreach
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Please contact Dukhae Sung, PhD at dhsung@msu.edu with any questions.

2024-2025

Terry Doan, Psy.D.

Kathleen O’Shea, Ph.D.

2023-2024

Ciera B. Lewis, Ph.D.

2022-2023

Jovany Avendano, PsyD

Jacqueline Fritts, PsyD

2021-2022

Jose Padilla Segarra, MS

2020-2021

Anel Arias, PhD

For any questions, you can direct your inquiries to: 

Dukhae Sung, PhD

Post- Doctoral Program Training Coordinator

Phone: 517.355.8270
Email: dhsung@msu.edu