Graduate and Postdoctoral Psychology Training

Integrative Health Training Opportunities in Psychology

The Osher Center for Integrative Health at Vanderbilt offers unique training experiences for psychology graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and MA-level counseling interns.

Through a partnership with the VUMC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Osher Center offers a primary rotation in the APA-accredited VUMC Internship in Professional Psychology and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Psychology. Additionally, as supervision capacity allows, we offer doctoral practicum opportunities for advanced graduate students in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, and internships for master’s counseling students.

Trainees function as independent, but well supported and supervised, members of the clinical team. They have their own caseload of individual therapy patients (caseload varies by trainee type). In their role as clinicians, trainees participate in interdisciplinary case conferences and consult individually with clinicians from other disciplines (i.e. medical providers, physical therapists, massage therapists, etc.). Trainees are also typically involved in our group programs, first as participant-observers and then often as co-leaders and potentially independent group leaders.

Training Opportunities:

Psychology training at the Osher Center emphasizes integrative, person-centered, evidence-based psychological care for individuals living with chronic medical conditions, and the practice of psychology within a team-based, interdisciplinary care model. In addition to core training in evidence-based health psychology, we offer several unique training opportunities including:

• Clinical hypnosis
• Mindfulness and acceptance-based psychological approaches
• Psychosocial approaches to treating specialty medical conditions including chronic pelvic and urological pain and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and related conditions