Doctoral Practicum Training Program at Through the Looking Glass
TLG offers practicum training for students in a doctoral program in psychology.
Training overview
Through the Looking Glass (TLG) offers a one-year BAPIC doctoral practicum training in clinical psychology.
Our approach: We work from a non-pathologizing, strength-based, disability culture informed perspective. Since our founding we have integrated theories from infant/early childhood mental health, attachment theory, family therapies, developmental practice, psychodynamic theory, trauma informed modalities of treatment, and cognitive behavioral interventions.
Clinical work: Our doctoral practicum students will gain skills serving a variety of clients. They deepen their knowledge about the impact of disability in families as well as infant mental health over the course of our training program. Practicum trainees have the opportunity to provide consistent services to clients over the full-term of their training. TLG trainees serve families with children ages 0-18 by providing family therapy, dyadic parent-child therapy, individual child therapy and play therapy. Services are provided both in person (home visit or in office) and via telehealth. Trainees work with their supervisors to determine pandemic-related safety considerations, and whether services should be delivered in person or via telehealth. Our trainees engage in regular interdisciplinary collaboration with developmental specialists and occupational therapists. For example, they may be a mental health clinician addressing the grief, depression, or trauma in a family system, and supporting child-caregiver relationships as well as collaborating with an occupational therapist addressing sensory integration issues and parenting accessibility challenges.
Practicum trainees will be expected to gain therapeutic skills to allow them to be efficacious with a wide variety of families and situations. Our trainees work with children from infancy through young adulthood, with children and caregivers who have physical, medical, developmental or intellectual disabilities, or mental illness; with multigenerational families where co-parenting is occurring; with families in which a grandparent or great-grandparent is the caregiver; with children who have been removed from their family of origin and are placed with kin or in foster care; and by providing family therapy and relationship support for families during visitations when children have been removed.
Weekly Schedule
Doctoral Practicum Trainees commit to 20 to 24 hours a week, and carry a case load of 4 to 5 clients.
Weekly supervision and training will be:
- Individual supervision by a licensed psychologist for 1 hour per week
- Group supervision by a licensed clinician for 1.5 hours per week.
- Interdisciplinary staff case conference and agency wide trainings for 1.5 hours per week
- Didactic training seminars for 1.5 hours per week.