California Psychology Internship CouncilSaturday Center for Psychotherapy
(310) 829-7997
Agency Description
The Saturday Center is a small agency with six to eight interns and seven to nine supervisors, and provides individual, couples and group psychotherapy to a general out patient population with a wide range of diagnoses, including relationship problems, anxiety, mood and eating disorders, and various Axis II diagnoses. Training is based on private practice, analytically oriented model. Interns carry a full share of responsibility for making the office run smoothly, and are involved in various business and administrative aspects of running a private practice. Each intern's counter transference responses evoked in their work with their clients are discussed by supervisors and group leaders (during regular supervisory meetings) in terms of their impact on the intern's ability to engage clients in a therapeutic process. Graduates of the two year program have a sound understanding of the art of psychotherapy and have a general knowledge of the business aspects of having a private practice. They are encouraged to continue seeing their clients at the end of their training.Agency Mission
The Saturday Center's goal is to provide low fee therapy to the Santa Monica community as well as a training program for Psychologists and Marriage and Family Therapists.Population
The Saturday Center serves general outpatient population with wide range of diagnoses, including relationship problems, anxiety, mood, and eating disorders, and various personality disorders.Staff (#, Degree, Prof. Lic.)
# of Psychologists: 6
# of MFT: 2
# of LCSW: 1
OVERALL Match Process Internship Info
| PREDOC POSITIONS | NUMBER UNFUNDED | NUMBER FUNDED | ANNUAL STIPEND | START DATE | END DATE | HOURS PER WEEK | HOURS PER YEAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Half-time | 4 | 09/03/2019 | 08/31/2020 | 20 | 1000 | ||
| Full-time | 4 | 09/03/2019 | 08/31/2020 | 30 | 1500 |
| PREDOC POSITIONS | IND. SUPERVISION HRS/WK | GRP. SUPERVISION HRS/WK |
|---|---|---|
| Half-time | ||
| Full-time | 2 | 3 |
CURRENT Match Phase Needs
This Data is Informational Only. The Official Track and Available Position data is provided on the InternFit platform.
| TRACK NAME | TYPE | NUMBER OF INTERNS |
|---|---|---|
| Single Track | UNDETERMINED/MULTIPLE | 0 |
Required days and times
Tuesdays: 9am-10:30am Wednesday: 9am-1pmTraining and Education Offered
Interns receive a minimum of 2 hours/wk of individual supervision, a 1.5 hr/wk supervision group, a 1.5 hr/wk reading/didactic group and a 1.5 hr/wk process group. All supervision focuses on the transference/countertransference relationship, with particular focus on how that relationship is brought into the supervision in the form of "parallel process." The agency takes an "intersubjective" apporach to treatment and thus views the client/therapist relationship as the factor of change in psychotherapy. As a result, much focus is placed in supervision on the character issues of the interns and how those traits affect the therapeutic work positively or negatively. After the one-year internship is completed, our interns will have the opportunity to continue for an additional year, towards post-doc requirements, should they be invited to do so. As a Psychological Assistant, our trainees earn a percentage of their patients' fees.X-Cultural Training
Opportunties:
Inservice training on LGBTQ affirmative therapy, cultural sensitivity training, working with marginalized populations.Language(s) staff can use in the delivery of clinical services:
Spanish, Farsi and ArabicResponsibilities
Responsibilities/functions: 1. Perform individual, couples, and family therapies. 2. Perform intakes including fee setting, diagnosis, and history taking. 3. Consult with supervisors around crises or abnormal situations. 4. Community outreach/marketing.Prerequisites
Required/Desired Experience:
For doctoral level students: at least 2 years experience with adults and adolescents. For MFT's, at least 1 year of post graduation experience with adults and adolescents. Individual , group, family and couples work.Brief Description of Requirements:
For doctoral level, at least 2 years of clinical experience. Must have passed comprehensive exams. For MFT's, at least 1 year of post graduation experience. We also require all intern to have had at least one year of personal psychotherapy.Application Procedures
1) Complete The Saturday Center application enclosed with the CAPIC documents. The application can also be downloaded from our website. This includes a personal biography and letter of intent.
2) A paragraph responding to Dr. Judith Davenports article, "The Saturday Center: A Training Institution in Process." listed on our website.
3) Send complete application to Vanessa Katz, PsyD vanessa@saturdaycenter.org
Interview Process:
Interns have one 1 hour individual interview, where they present a client and do a mock supervision session. This is followed by a second interview of the same format, followed by a 1 hour group interview.What we are looking for:
We are looking for applicants whom are interested in doing deep inner work, learning about psychodynamic theory/process work and forming a private practice.Additional application docs required (if any)
- Transcripts - Graduate
- Contact Person Title - Director of Admissions
- Contact Person - Vanessa Katz, PsyD
- Dir. of Training Title - Clinical Director
- Dir. of Training - Susan Frankel, PhD
- Last Updated - 13 August 2021
- Participating in CURRENT Match process - Yes
- CAPIC Member Since - 2011
- Region - So. Cal
- Statuses approved by CAPIC
- Half-Time 1 Year - No
- Half-Time 2 Years - Yes
- Full-Time 1 Year - Yes
- CAPIC Internship Types Available:
- Half-Time 1 Year - No
- Half-Time 2 Years - Yes
- Full-Time 1 Year - Yes
Primary Location
- Executive Director - Niaz Khani, Psy.D., Vanessa Katz, Psy.D. & Susan Frankel, PhD.
- 3201 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 201
- Santa monica, CA 90403
- Phone - (310) 829-7997
- Fax - (310) 829-7997
Training/Clinical Services Offered
- Couple
- Family
- Group
- Individual
- Long Term
- Outpatient