Psychological Services Center at Edgewood Family Services

415-525-4294

Current Training/Cohort

# of Half-Time PREDOCTORAL INTERNS in current training cohort: 1

# of Full-Time PREDOCTORAL INTERNS in current training cohort: 1

Number of current Predoctoral Intern Positions Filled Listed By Doctoral Program of Enrollment:

Half-Time Full-Time
Program 1: Alliant/CSPP-SF 1 0
Program 2: California Institute of Integral Studies 0 1

Other Trainees in Current Training Program:

Postdoc, or Practicum Number
psychology practicum students 13
psychology postdocs 1
MSW
MFT

Agency Description:

About the PSC at Edgewood The PSC provides therapy and assessment training for psychology doctoral trainess at the internship and practicum levels. At our community-based programs, traineess provide outpatient services for children, adolescents, and families. The PSC provides mental health services to more than 300 people per year. The PSC was established in 1983 to enrich the training of students and to also offer psychological services to under-resourced communities. The PSC has taken many forms over the years, including a domestic violence clinic, a community-based outpatient clinic in Oakland, and a school-based program. For the 2024-2025 year, we are thrilled to begin our new partnership with Edgewood Center for Children and Families, a mental-health pillar in the community. About Edgewood Center The Edgewood Center for Children and Families (“Edgewood”) is the place to begin for any child or youth to get the mental health care, social services, and academic support they need from highly trained, welcoming professionals. Through committed staff, many with lived experiences, who strongly believe in the mission, Edgewood offers a full range of services for children, youth, and families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their vision is that everyone Edgewood serves has the power to live life with understanding, confidence, strength, and joy. Edgewood, established in 1851, was the first children’s non-profit in the western United States. Building on a strong and dynamic foundation of service in the Bay Area, today Edgewood offers over 15 programs in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. On its unique property and across 6 locations, prevention and early intervention, community-based services, intensive programs, including 24-hour crisis stabilization and intervention in two counties and residential care are provided to nearly 5,000 children and youth each year. Edgewood has a new opportunity to expand and bring critical relief to Bay Area children and families. Edgewood is broadening outreach and identifying new growth channels that will increase a wide range of client population and realigning outpatient services to meet the soaring needs of Bay Area children, youth and families who need help now. Edgewood has also re-established a teaching institute for research, advocacy, and educational programs to train the next generation of providers.

Agency Mission:

Training Program's Mission Statement: The Psychological Services Center (PSC) is a doctoral psychology training clinic dedicated to providing trauma-informed, psychodynamically-oriented, family-focused services to youths. We are an anti-racist, pro-Black, and LGBTQ+ affirming organization committed to developing future psychologists who can use their clinical skills to dismantle barriers of systemic racism and oppression. We are a community-based program, as we believe all children should have access to high-quality, evidence-informed psychological care. Edgewood's Mission Statement: Edgewood is the place to begin for any child or youth to get the mental health care, social services, and academic support they need from highly trained, welcoming professionals. Through committed staff, many with lived experiences, who strongly believe in the mission, Edgewood offers a full range of services for children, youth, and families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their vision is that everyone Edgewood serves has the power to live life with understanding, confidence, strength, and joy. Edgewood, established in 1851, was the first children’s non-profit in the western United States. Building on a strong and dynamic foundation of service in the Bay Area, today Edgewood offers over 15 programs in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. On its unique property and across 6 locations, prevention and early intervention, community-based services, intensive programs, including 24-hour crisis stabilization and intervention in two counties and residential care are provided to nearly 5,000 children and youth each year. Edgewood has a new opportunity to expand and bring critical relief to Bay Area children and families. Edgewood is broadening outreach and identifying new growth channels that will increase a wide range of client population and realigning outpatient services to meet the soaring needs of Bay Area children, youth and families who need help now. Edgewood has also re-established a teaching institute for research, advocacy, and educational programs to train the next generation of providers.

Theoretical Orientation(s) of Staff:

Bio-psychosocial, Cognitive behavioral, Family Systems, Humanistic/Existential, Integrative, Jungian, Narrative, Other: Cross-cultural, Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Transpersonal

Comments Regarding Theoretical Orientation of Staff

Throughout all aspects of our training we apply culturally-sensitive and trauma-informed approaches. Our primary orientation for case conceptualization and training is relational/psychodynamic, while our interventions are drawn from a variety of evidence-based approaches. In our assessment program we draw principles of collaborative therapeutic assessment.

AGENCY ACCESSIBILITY AND DISABILITY ISSUES

Are you familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990? Yes
If not, would you like information? No
Is the agency wheelchair accessible? Yes
Do trainees have access to computers to do their paperwork? Yes
Has there been a student/intern/trainee with a disability at the agency within the last five years? Yes
Are there any training staff with disabilities at the agency? No
Has the agency provided in-service training on disabilities in the past five years? Yes

Comments on agency accessibility:

Verified Therapist Credentials
  • County - San Francisco
  • Contact Person Title - Training Director
  • Contact Person - Lisa Oefinger, PhD
  • Dir. of Training Title - Training Co-directors
  • Dir. of Training - Molly/Lisa Barnett/Oefinger, PsyD/PhD

  • Last Updated - 21 February 2024

  • Number of Applicants Last Year -

  • Participating in CURRENT Match process - Yes

  • CAPIC Member Since - 2021
  • Region - No. Cal
  • Internships Status - Half/Full
  • Statuses approved by CAPIC
    • Half-Time 1 Year - Yes
    • Half-Time 2 Years - No
    • Full-Time 1 Year - Yes
  • CAPIC Internship Types Available:
    • Half-Time 1 Year - Yes
    • Half-Time 2 Years - No
    • Full-Time 1 Year - Yes

Primary Location

  • Executive Director - Molly Barnett, PsyD, and Lisa Oefinger, PhD
  • 1801 Vicente Street
  • Oakland, CA 94116
  • Phone - 415-525-4294

Training/Clinical Services Offered

  • Assessment
  • Brief
  • Consultation
  • Crisis
  • Family
  • Group
  • Individual
  • Long Term
  • Outpatient
  • Psych. Testing
  • Other