Postdoctoral Fellow - University Counseling

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.

Post Doctoral Fellow

THE FELLOWSHIP provides postdoctoral clinical and counseling psychologists a concentrated advanced training experience with focus on emerging adult mental health. University Counseling Services (UCS) is a relatively large, fast-paced, multidimensional, and highly-utilized health delivery system with the primary responsibility of addressing the mental health needs of the Boston College student community. A committed staff of psychologists, social workers, and psychiatric prescribers provide a wide range of direct clinical services. The training program is progressive and developmental in nature with the goal of aiding Fellows in forming fuller professional identities and to foster readiness in becoming independent practitioners. At the core of a Fellow’s training are individual and group treatment, crisis interventions, individual / group supervision, consultation, and participation in the teamwork of the department all within a strong generalist perspective. UCS emphasizes psychodynamic, developmental, and culturally informed approaches in formulating client difficulties, and it prioritizes brief, focused approaches to treatment while maintaining the flexibility of providing open-ended treatment, particularly for those clients with the greatest needs and/or the least resources. Fellows also gain experience with the unusual diagnostic and treatment challenges posed by those clients who present as both high performing and diagnostically quite complex. BC students are bright, talented, and diverse. The clients seeking our clinical services are articulate, motivated, and still in the process of shaping key aspects of their identities. At an institutional level, BC is invested in the integration of students' intellectual development with their personal formation.

Fellows (1) attain advanced clinical skills with an emerging adult population manifesting the broad spectrum of psychopathology and (2) generally advance their formulation and treatment-planning skills significantly. Fellows also 3) develop understanding of the intersections of psychopathology with developmental and multicultural forces and 4) develop expertise in the challenges prevalent in mental health practice today within an institution of higher education. This year, fellows will also have the option, should they choose, to identify and area of focus for the year, including: A) Multicultural Issues, B) Group Therapy, and C) Trauma Informed Care. (see UCS website Fellowship brochure for additional information). Fellows seeking a robust Generalist Training experience, not including an area of focus, are also strongly encouraged to apply. Fellows inevitably acquire considerable depth and breadth in their treatment and consulting skills and typically complete the eleven-month fellowship year with a consolidated sense of their professional competence and personal career direction.

Qualified applicants who have not been officially awarded their doctorates must be prepared to provide us with an official letter from their department or dissertation chair attesting to their predicted completion of all components of their doctoral program by August 15, 2025.

The application deadline is on a rolling basis.

Salary: $52,598