Counseling and Psychological Services

Instructions for Internship Application

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  • 🌟Want to tackle anxiety and embrace your calm? Come check out our exciting new workshop! We'll dive into some powerful coping skills to help you feel your best! ✨🌞

*Prior to joining the workshop, please ensure that you are currently using our services or initiate the check-in process to register. If you need further information, reach out to the CAPS office.

Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
  • Our hottest event is back-- PUPPY YOGA!! CAPS is collaborating with Doggy Noses and Yoga Poses to bring you the most adorable puppies ever🐶🧘‍♀️

Come join us for our Puppy Yoga Event, where these furry friends will help you relax like never before. Spots are limited, so make sure to grab yours quickly! You won’t want to miss this paws-itively delightful experience! 🐾✨

🔗Register on Mason360: cglink.me/2d7/r2275728
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Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
  • 🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
  • Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
  • 🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 

Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. 

Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
🌟Want to tackle anxiety and embrace your calm? Come check out our exciting new workshop! We'll dive into some powerful coping skills to help you feel your best! ✨🌞

*Prior to joining the workshop, please ensure that you are currently using our services or initiate the check-in process to register. If you need further information, reach out to the CAPS office.

Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
🌟Want to tackle anxiety and embrace your calm? Come check out our exciting new workshop! We'll dive into some powerful coping skills to help you feel your best! ✨🌞 *Prior to joining the workshop, please ensure that you are currently using our services or initiate the check-in process to register. If you need further information, reach out to the CAPS office. Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
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Our hottest event is back-- PUPPY YOGA!! CAPS is collaborating with Doggy Noses and Yoga Poses to bring you the most adorable puppies ever🐶🧘‍♀️

Come join us for our Puppy Yoga Event, where these furry friends will help you relax like never before. Spots are limited, so make sure to grab yours quickly! You won’t want to miss this paws-itively delightful experience! 🐾✨

🔗Register on Mason360: cglink.me/2d7/r2275728
Link in our bio

Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
Our hottest event is back-- PUPPY YOGA!! CAPS is collaborating with Doggy Noses and Yoga Poses to bring you the most adorable puppies ever🐶🧘‍♀️ Come join us for our Puppy Yoga Event, where these furry friends will help you relax like never before. Spots are limited, so make sure to grab yours quickly! You won’t want to miss this paws-itively delightful experience! 🐾✨ 🔗Register on Mason360: cglink.me/2d7/r2275728 Link in our bio Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
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🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
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Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
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🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 

Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. 

Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 

Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. 

Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 

Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. 

Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
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Successful applicants must be students in an APA-accredited Counseling or Clinical Psychology doctoral program (Ph.D. or Psy.D.). Candidates must have successfully passed their comprehensive examinations, successfully defended their dissertation proposal, and received approval for internship by their academic Training Director prior to the application deadline. Successful applicants will also have at least 310 total direct contact intervention hours. We have modified our minimum intervention hour requirement to acknowledge students whose training has been impacted by recent natural disasters. Successful applicants will have also had at least one training/clinical experience working with adults during which they provided individual therapy, interest in generalist training at a university counseling center, and interest and/or experience working with a diverse student population.

The Counseling and Psychological Services Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology is participating in APPIC’s Computer Matching Program. The NMS Match Code is 205711.

Deadline for Application: November 4, 2024.

Completed applications should be submitted via the APPIC electronic submission process.

Applications reviewed will include the completed AAPI Online (Application for Psychology Internship; as found on the APPIC website as www.appic.org) with the following elements attached:

• Cover letter describing your interest in the internship program at George Mason University Counseling and Psychological Services. The letter should describe your goals for internship and ways this program in particular would help you meet those goals.
• Three letters of recommendation, at least two of which are from individuals who have recently supervised your clinical work.
• A curriculum vitae.
• All graduate transcripts.

We will accept applications from interested candidates through November 4, 2024. We will offer virtual interviews to select candidates by December 6, 2024. Virtual interviews will be conducted during the second two weeks of January 2025.

This internship program abides by the APPIC Match Policies, which are published on APPIC’s Website. This internship site further agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any intern applicant.

George Mason University prohibits discrimination and harassment and provides equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or any other trait or status protected by applicable law.

George Mason University completes a national background inquiry which includes a criminal felony and misdemeanor search, national sex offender registry database search, social security number validation, and trace. Adverse information discovered in the background check will not automatically disqualify an individual from employment. Decisions concerning employment will be made on a case-by-case basis in conjunction with a review of the job description and requirements. Please visit the University policy for more information regarding Mason’s background check policy. Interns must be eligible to work in the U.S.  either by citizenship or Visa status.