Agency Description

Community Counseling Center (CCC) is a non-profit, preventative care provider of premium, affordable psychotherapy for the economically disadvantaged and under-insured residents of the Central Coast. Services are provided by a bevy of volunteer, paid and contracted clinicians at 5 community-based clinics and over 30 school-based sites. Sliding Scale Program: Services are typically fee based, set on a sliding scale according to each client's net household monthly income and ability to pay. Under CCC's sliding scale program 10-15 sessions of family, couple, or individual counseling for relationship issues, bereavement issues, parenting problems and life transition situations are provided, all of which are suitable for short-term treatment. It may be necessary to refer our clients whose conditions are not appropriate for short-term counseling such as: substance abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, custody cases and chronic mental illness. No one is denied services on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability. Cencal-Holman Insurance: Additionally, CCC now accepts CenCal/Medi-Cal insurance coverage through a partnership with the Holman Group, a private managed care agency contracted by CenCal to implement the Affordable Care Act Mental Health benefit. The CenCal/Medi-Cal benefit is available to individuals (no couples or family) with "mild to moderate" issues and can be utilized for longer term treatment based upon medical necessity. CCC coordinates a panel of over 20 agency providers that are credentialed by the Holman Group to provide therapy to the Medi-Cal/CenCal population on the Central Coast. The benefit typically offers clients full coverage without any out of pocket co-pay required. In some instances clients have forms of Medi-Cal that only offer shared cost coverage.

Agency Mission

Mission Statement "Building and supporting emotionally strong individuals, families and community through confidential, affordable counseling, education and advocacy."

Population

The Community Counseling Center has a catchment area that stretches from the Santa Maria Valley to Paso Robles. Economically disadvantaged clients of all ages and backgrounds come to the agency for professional therapy services they would otherwise be unable to afford. The primary purpose of CCC programming is to assist 'mild to moderate' presenting individuals and families to develop the ability to find choices and make changes when life becomes difficult during times of transition, confusion, depression, anxiety, stress or grief. No one is denied services on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability.

Staff (#, Degree, Prof. Lic.)

# of Psychologists: 1

# of MFT: 0

Required days and times

Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm (also weekday evenings and weekends in some instances for community-based clientele)

Training and Education Offered

The goal of the internship program at Community Counseling Center is to train professional doctoral level and master's level Psychologists/MFt Interns/ASW Interns and LPCC Interns who have a particular interest in clinical psychology. The program is designed to encourage the development of clinical competence with adults, couples, youth and families, with sensitivity to, and facility with, cultural differences, ethical issues, and interdisciplinary relationships. Objectives of Training Include: -Interns will develop further skills in psychological intervention, including: solution focused cognitive behavioral, trauma-informed, environmental and short term, goal-oriented individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy, exposure to crisis intervention and long term individual psychotherapy, behavioral medicine techniques, exposure to psychopharmacology, case management and advocacy. -Interns will develop facility with a range of assessment techniques, including: developmental testing (elective), cognitive testing, achievement testing, assessment of behavioral/emotional functioning, assessment of parent-child relationships and family systems, and neuropsychological evaluation (elective). Assessment training across domains will include both current functioning and changes in functioning. -Science and practice are integrated within the internship program in a number of ways, including: didactic seminars on theories and techniques of assessment, theories and techniques of intervention, empirically supported-treatments, theories and techniques of consultation, and current scientific knowledge regarding diagnosis classification and special populations; discussions during supervision of clinical material in light of scientific literature; and encouragement of critical thinking (and empirical hypotheses-testing) in treatment and systemic consultation.

X-Cultural Training

Responsibilities

Under the general oversight of the Director of Clinical Training (DCT), interns will provide psychological services to Community Counseling Center clients at multiple service sites. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: -Providing individual, couple, family or group therapy; -Administer, score, and interpret a host of clinical assessments; -Attend monthly in-service trainings relevant to practice, to attend weekly individual and group clinical supervision with licensed psychologist/s; -Present field work and methodology at weekly didactic trainings (senior interns). -Gain feedback through streaming video recorded observation of session by licensed mental health professional. -Provide services at field rotation sites. -Participate in evaluation and outcomes collection, and coordinate community needs assessment within the service region. -Practice psychotherapy in the Modalities of: Psychodynamic, DBT, Trauma-Informed , Motivational Interviewing, MBCT, & SFCB, Crisis Intervention, Mental Health First Aid.

Prerequisites

Application Procedures