Welcome to the Bellevue Externship Program

The mission of the Bellevue Psychology Externship Programs is to prepare doctoral students for Internship, and from there to careers as psychologists in a variety of academic, clinical and research settings.

Bellevue externs have the opportunity to obtain training in assessment, diagnosis, and various intervention and treatment modalities. The clinical population at Bellevue is extremely diverse and includes patients from different cultures, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and socio-economic levels. The pages that follow describe the variety of externship opportunities at Bellevue. Depending on the externship placement, trainees at Bellevue have the opportunity to gain valuable experience in child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy, neuropsychology, health psychology, inpatient and outpatient assessment and treatment, and group psychotherapy. Psychotherapy supervision is conducted according to the theoretical orientation of the supervisor, who may use a cognitive-behavioral or psychodynamic model. A detailed discussion of each of the various externships is found in the pages that follow.