The doctoral internship at the UT Dallas Student Counseling Center (SCC) is an APA-accredited full-time, 12-month-long, organized, 2000-hour training program in health service psychology that provides comprehensive supervised experiences in University counseling center services and functions.
The doctoral internship program provided a practitioner model of training. Our primary training modality is experiential, emphasizing clinical practice and service delivery with the goal of creating ethical and culturally competent generalist practitioners. We use a developmental approach to facilitate the transition from graduate student to professional psychologist. Through close relationships with senior staff and supervisors, interns assume increasing levels of responsibility and autonomy, expanding their professional roles as the year progresses.
Training is focused on facilitating interns’ clinical competence, fostering the development of professional judgment, and enriching interns’ scientific and practice-based knowledge.
We are also deeply committed to facilitating the integration of interns’ personal and professional identities through engaging them in supportive, challenging supervisory and mentoring relationships with a heightened focus on whom the intern is as an individual and how that impacts them professionally. In addition, our internship program is based largely on a relational “use of self” training model, as we believe that optimal professional development occurs within the context of self-reflection and personal exploration. The “use of self” model refers not only to clinical work, but to all training and supervisory experiences. Interns are expected to explore values, beliefs, biases and reactions in all of their training contexts.
For more information, visit the website: https://counseling.utdallas.edu/internship/
(This page was updated 1/15/2026).