VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System Psychology Service provides internship training in Health Service Psychology and is fully accredited by the American Psychological Association. Qualified candidates who are enrolled in APA accredited doctoral programs in clinical or counseling psychology are eligible to apply at the doctoral level. Our internship provides a wide range of training opportunities because of the complexity of the Medical Center.
The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System focuses on treating the whole Veteran through health promotion and disease prevention, and provides comprehensive, seamless health care and social services for more than 112,000 Veterans across Northeast Ohio. With 18 locations of care, including 13 outpatient clinics, two community resource and referral centers, a psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery center, a chronic dialysis center and an ambulatory surgery center, the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System’s quality services are easily accessible to Veterans in 24 counties. The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System also contributes to the future of medicine through education, training, and research programs. The number of unique patients and complexity of care provided makes the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System the 3rd largest in the VA.
The Cleveland VA Medical Center is heavily invested in training health care professionals in basic and applied research and supports several Centers of Excellence in healthcare. Residents and medical students from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine train at the Medical Center in all major specialties. The Cleveland VA Medical Center maintains many university affiliations for professional training in other health care disciplines including psychology, social work, nursing, dentistry, audiology and speech pathology, optometry, pharmacology, physical and occupational therapy, and nutrition. Over 1,000 health care profession students per year train at the Medical Center.
For more information, please visit the website: https://www.va.gov/northeast-ohio-health-care/work-with-us/internships-and-fellowships/psychology-residency-and-internship/
(This page was last updated 1/16/2026)