About the Program

Successful completion of this fellowship program requires at least 2000 postdoctoral hours to be completed in no more than 12 months. A minimum of 60% of the fellow’s time will be spent providing direct clinical services.

Minimum qualifications of applicants must include all of the following (prior to the start of the fellowship):

  1. Doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology from an APA accredited program;
  2. Successful completion of an APA accredited psychology internship;
  3. Strong diagnostic skills including experience with assessments and psychological testing; and
  4. Experience providing evidence-based treatments to adults.

Fellows are hired with the job title “Postdoctoral Research Fellow.” Currently there are eleven full-time, licensed clinical psychologists at UTHealth-BSC, one of whom is the Chief of Psychology Services who serves as the point of contact and directly oversees the psychology postdoctoral fellowship training program.

  • Deliver brief, evidence-based individual and group psychotherapies to adult patients with diverse clinical presentations, including serious mental illness (SMI) and co-occurring disorders.
  • Demonstrate advanced proficiency in psychological evaluations, including cognitive, personality, and response-style assessments to inform treatment planning and clinical decision-making.
  • Apply individualized responsive practices and adapt interventions to meet the needs of various patient populations.
  • Provide developmentally appropriate, tiered supervision and feedback to practicum students, predoctoral interns, and psychiatry residents, under the guidance of licensed psychologists.
  • Function effectively as a consultant within multidisciplinary treatment teams by providing psychological expertise, treatment recommendations, and education to colleagues.
  • Consistent with the practitioner-scholar model, engage in clinical research and curate at least one scholarly product by year-end.
  • Apply APA Ethical Principles and state licensure laws, by engaging in ethical and professional behavior, accurately representing trainee status and supervisory relationships, and progressively developing autonomy and readiness for independent practice through reflective self-assessment, supervision integration, and professional growth.
  • Meet the postdoctoral requirement for licensure as a psychologist in Texas