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Dive deep with our comprehensive training programs. Get experience with individual and group therapy, workshops, outreach, and more.
You're the Future of Mental Health
It's our mission to provide outstanding training for the next generation of mental health professionals. Each semester, we invite interns from various types of academic programs (clinical and counseling psychology, counseling, social work, and psychiatry) from within and outside the University of Arizona to join the CAPS Training Program and CAPS Doctoral Internship Program (CDIP).
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CAPS Doctoral Internship Program
The CAPS Doctoral Internship Program (CDIP) offers three full-time, paid positions that fulfill the internship requirement for students completing doctoral degrees in Clinical and Counseling Psychology. Interns who match with us will be immersed in a fast-paced, integrated university health setting at a large public university. They receive in-depth training as health-service psychologists in the borderlands of the American Southwest.
CDIP welcomed its first cohort of two interns in 2024-2025. We are excited to announce that we will be adding an additional spot for a total of three interns for the 2025-2026 internship class!
CAPS Extern Training Experience
Our externs work alongside licensed staff serving students in our vibrant, fast-paced, interdisciplinary university counseling center. Clinical externs receive training across a variety of modalities, including individual and group therapy, psychoeducational workshops, initial visits, outreach, and more.
CAPS also offers Advocacy Training available with our Survivor Advocates team. Learn more about training with our Survivor Advocates.
It was amazing to be able to provide counseling for clients.
-CAPS Extern
I feel the environment was such a great place to develop in, and supportive.
-CAPS Extern
Great clinical experience, good supervisors, lots of support.
-CAPS Extern
Meet the Training Crew
CAPS Training Committee and Supervisors
Join Our Training Program
For more information about our training program, contact our training director, Joel Gaffney at joelgaffney@arizona.edu.
CDIP is not currently accredited by the APA. Questions related to the program’s accredited status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 336-5979 / E-mail: apaaccred@apa.org