The Clinic Fellowship offers candidates in the Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis an opportunity to earn financial credits toward their training expenses while providing affordable treatment to patients. Eventually, these patients may become part of the candidates’ own clinical practices.

Clinic Fellows are assigned cases through the clinic and can carry five to 20 patient-hours per week. Fellows are credited $25 per treatment session which can be used to help defray training costs including: Tuition and a portion (up to $35/session) of the candidate’s supervision sessions and personal psychoanalysis. Thus, the Clinic Fellowship is often an important component in financing analytic training.

Additional requirements include attending the clinic seminar on Tuesday afternoons and, if possible, the Tuesday morning clinic conference. Fellows are also required to be in weekly supervision with a Supervisor of Psychotherapy. Each Supervisor of Psychotherapy may supervise up to 5 clinic patients at a time.

Additional Benefits of the Fellowship

Practice Development: Upon completion of 40 weeks of clinic treatment, patients may be transferred into the candidate’s private practice. After two years as a clinic fellow, candidates usually have developed a fairly substantial private practice from their clinic patients.

Office Space: If space is available, the clinic may provide up to five free, off-peak hours per week for the candidate to treat their former clinic patients and private patients. Candidates must maintain their own private malpractice insurance for this option.

Free Supervision: Fellows receive free supervision for clinic psychotherapy patients. Clinic psychotherapy supervisors are assigned to the candidate by the Director of Clinical Services.

Licensing Hours: Psychologists may use the clinic fellowship to fulfill the New York State licensing requirement of postdoctoral training. LMSWs may use the clinic fellowship to fulfill hours for the LCSW.

Application Procedures: Prospective candidates interested in the clinic fellowship should contact: Karen Chuck, JD, LCSW-R, Director of Clinical Services at (212) 873-0725, ext. 19, k.chuck@wawahite.org.

Candidates agree to comply with the ethical guidelines of their constituent professional organizations (whether or not they are members of that professional organization) and the Code of Conduct of the William Alanson White Institute.