For more information about our APPIC membership for all four regions go here.

Please click here for the Application Procedures.

More information about what is required in your application can be found here: Internship Application

• Comprehensive Examination successfully completed
• Dissertation proposal approved by match ranking deadline
• Completion of a combined 300 Intervention and Assessment hours
• Must have completed three years of graduate training (some sites require receipt of Master’s degree)
• Enrollment in an APA- or CPA-accredited clinical (preferred), counseling, or school psychology doctoral program; OR a non-accredited school that has had or has been approved for an APA site visit.

For more information about what the individual sites look for in an intern, check out the “Intern Selection Process” tabs on each of the site bio pages found in the Central Current Sites and Great Lakes Current Sites and Cascade Current Sites sections.

Our Virtual Open House will occur the week of September 16th, 2024. During open house, applicants will have the opportunity to learn more about NPTC and each of our regions. Applicants can ask questions of our Regional and Site Training Directors and learn more about the application process. The specific dates and times of our Virtual Open House meetings will be available soon. 

Interested applicants can request recordings of these meetings by emailing applicant@psychologyinterns.org after the event is over. You can also review our Virtual Open House FAQ document which is a compilation of all questions and answers from the meetings last year.

Annual pay varies at each site. Please see the site pages for more details about pay and benefits.

Cost of living estimates will vary by region. Due to our focus on rural psychology, many of our sites are in areas where the cost of living is far lower than in other parts of the country. The pay provided at many of our sites will go farther than it would in more expensive parts of the country.

Specific information can be provided by request, and matched interns will recieve a resource guide shortly after matching.

While some interns have completed internship without a vehicle, we strongly recommend that interns have their own form of transportation due to the rural nature of most of our sites. In addition, some rotations require interns to travel between site locations, and travel is required for didactics.

In the Cascades Region, interns will travel for didactics on the first Friday of every month. Didactics will be hosted by HealthPoint in Renton, WA and by Community Health of Central Washington in Yakima, WA on an alternating basis.

In the Central, Great Lakes, and Cy-Hawk Regions, interns will travel for in-person didactics once per quarter. Didactics will take place in Springfield or Jefferson City, MO for Central Region interns and in Peru, Lafayette, Carmel, or Noblesville, IN for Great Lakes Region interns. Didactics will be held in Ames, Iowa for the Cy-Hawk Region. 

Social events in the Cascades Region typically take place when interns come together for didactics once per month. Chief interns in the Cascades Region also plan intern-led social events throughout the training year.

Social events in the Central and Great Lakes Regions typically take place when interns come together for didactics once per quarter. Intern representatives in each of these regions also plan social events for interns outside of didactics. In the past, intern-led social events across all regions have included virtual game nights, virtual Uber Eats socials, ski trips, ice cream socials, and roller-skating parties.

Information on Intern support and benefits is available here: https://psychologyinterns.org/about-nptc/internship-admissions-support-initial-placement-data/

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