We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new opportunity in our Doctoral Internship program at Portland Mental Health & Wellness! This year, we are adding a Latine/bilingual rotation to our program in partnership with Raíces de Bienestar, a local nonprofit dedicated to providing culturally-grounded mental health services to the Latine community here in Oregon. The placement at Raíces will allow interns to experience the benefits of reaching beyond the therapy room to connect with the Latine community and engage with community leaders and traditional health workers. Raices provides a broad continuum of services, from prevention to direct clinical intervention.
In addition to the Raíces rotation, we are launching a Spanish language program here at Portland Mental Health & Wellness, where interns can gain hands-on experience working with bilingual and bicultural patients right here in our Portland clinics, thereby enriching the learning from the Latine/bilingual rotation.
To give more intern applicants the chance to take part in these new offerings, we are extending the internship application deadline to December 1. A strong application for an intern hoping to participate in the Latine/bilingual rotation will include Spanish language proficiency and culturally-centered training. Applications accepted via the AAPI CAS.
Portland Mental Health & Wellness (PMHW), a private group practice, offers a 2000-hour, one-year, full-time doctoral internship for interns with an interest in working with patients of diverse and intersecting identities, an exciting opportunity to deepen their therapy skills. Our clinicians practice from relational and process-oriented models and focus on the whole person in the context in which they live. Staff psychologists, LPCs, LCSWs, and other clinicians practice primarily from Gestalt and Psychodynamic frameworks and utilize a therapeutic model of supervision to both support and challenge our trainees to attend to both their patients and their own process.
Our philosophy of training is a culturally-focused Developmental Mentorship Practitioner model designed to train generalists to be prepared for entry-level practice in psychology and to function in multiple clinical contexts within a multidisciplinary team.
The core of the model is a practitioner orientation. This is rooted in applied psychology and includes extensive training in: assessment, diagnosis, and triage; individual, group, and relationship therapy; outreach and consultation; supervision (receiving and providing) and didactic training. The PMHW staff embrace a range of theoretical orientations, treatment modalities, and ways of thinking that are intentionally divergent.
The developmental focus highlights the parallel process that occurs between clients’ development, interns’ personal and professional development, and the transitions of the training year. The internship year begins with assessment of entering interns’ skills, and progresses with facilitated, active involvement in both individually selected and universal professional activities. Our site is committed and dedicated to ethical, culturally aware mentoring through reciprocal learning within supportive and challenging relationships with staff and peers.
The internship will start on August 18, 2025 and end on August 17, 2026. Click here for the full job description.
For the 2025-2026 training year, we are offering two (2) full-time positions. Part-time is not available currently.
Interns provide therapy and psychological assessment to patients across the lifespan. We require a minimum of 450 intervention and 50 assessment hours (500 hours total).
Interns will receive training in nine competency domains: intervention, assessment, interprofessional collaboration, consultation, supervision, diversity, practitioner-scholar practice, professionalism, and ethical practice.
Interns will work a total of 40 hours per week. Below is an estimate of how interns will spend their time:
500 hours total
Interventions hours: 450
Assessment hours: 50
Applicants must come from an APA-Accredited program.
Primary Clinic Location: 905 SE 14th Ave., Portland, OR
Secondary Clinic Locations: 3050 SE Division St. & 812 SW Washington St.
PMHW Internship Mission
Portland Mental Health & Wellness is dedicated to building a culturally diverse and pluralistic clinical staff. We are committed to sustaining a multicultural environment and strongly encourage applications from underrepresented or marginalized groups.
PMHW Diversity Mission
We are an equal opportunity training site; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for clinical fieldwork placement without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, as well as those not protected by law.
Interns who are an ideal fit are:
We seek to embrace and develop a culture that values feedback at all levels, radical candor, brave space, transparent decision-making process, inverted organizational structure, antiracist practice, trauma informed and organizational & individual humility. Learn more here.
The deadline for applications is November 8, 2024.
Click here for the full job description.
Please Note: COVID vaccination and background check is required.
Portland Mental Health and Wellness Internship Program is an APPIC Member.
For more information contact APPIC:
17225 El Camino Real Onyx One – Suite #170 Houston, TX 77058-2700
(832) 284-4080 | appic@appic.org
The program is not currently accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). We are pursuing accreditation but cannot guarantee a timeline.
