Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

American Lake Division, VA Puget Sound - Clinical Psychology - PTSD Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Focus Area

VA Puget Sound - American Lake Division
Tacoma, Washington

Starts on Monday, August 11, 2025

Applications due Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training

This training experience is a planned and programmed sequence of training that aims to ensure preparation for advanced practice rather than one that is focused on providing supervised hours for licensure. Yes

This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities. Yes

This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience. Yes

This training experience is administered by a doctoral-level licensed psychologist who directs and organizes the training experience and its resources, is responsible for the selection of postdocs, and monitors and evaluates the goals and activities of the experience. Yes

This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.   Yes

This training experience includes regularly scheduled structured educational activities that help postdocs its defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities. Yes

This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures. Yes

This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training. Yes

The American Lake Division of VA Puget Sound has three different postdoctoral positions in Clinical Psychology with three separate focus areas: Primary Care Mental Health Integration (1 position), PTSD Evidence-Based Treatment (1 position), and Residential Treatment (1 position). Details about our postdoctoral training program can be found at: http://www.psychologytraining.va.gov/seattle/

Specific training experiences that are available during COVID-19 may depend on local infection rates, local clinic policies, and leadership decisions. Currently, almost all outpatient visits are conducted virtually utilizing VA's telehealth platforms. The volatile nature of the pandemic makes it impossible to predict today how circumstances on the ground will look in the fall of 2025, when we begin a new cycle of training. Nonetheless, our facility is fully committed to following public health guidelines that are based solely on the best available scientific evidence, making trainee health and safety our number one priority, and--given the constraints imposed by necessary health restrictions--to providing the highest quality training experience that we can devise.

https://www.psychologytraining.va.gov/seattle/

Additional Information

Agency Type: VA Medical Center
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: Yes
Recognized Specialty: Clinical Psychology
Emphasis or focus area: PTSD (Trauma)
Research Time: Less than 25%
Training Director: Jason Stolee, Ph.D.
Contact Email: jason.stolee@va.gov
Contact Phone: 253-583-3880
Virtual Interviews: Virtual Only
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 50
Number of Positions: 1
Applications recieved last year: 7
Stipend: $59,130
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: Yes
Estimated offer date: Friday, January 31 2025
Created Date: Friday, July 1 2016
Unfilled Positions: 0
Fringe Benefits: Living in the diverse and beautiful Pacific Northwest
Research opportunities: It is our belief that excellence in health service psychology requires attention to ethics, diversity, science, and practice. The residency programs at American Lake value the integration of science and practice. This value reflects our belief that the postdoctoral residency provides specific training in advanced competencies, as well as acculturation into a philosophy with which clinical and research problems are approached. This philosophy included objectivity, openness to the available data, and a willingness to explore various hypotheses to understand and address specific clinical situations through research, as well as through study and training. Within our postdoctoral programs, the integration of science into practice occurs under the supervision of psychologists in programs that have either service delivery or clinical research as a primary focus. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of clinical skills, including the ability to evaluate psychiatric and neuropsychological disorders objectively, to develop and implement treatment plans, and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. Seminars dealing with relevant clinical, research, and professional concerns occur throughout the training experience at the American Lake VA medical center and in the greater professional community.
Additional Comments: This position is within a larger Clinical Psychology program and has a focus on evidence based treatment of PTSD. Our program was initially accredited by APA CoA on July 21, 2019 and our next site visit will be in 2029.
Application Instructions: Following Common Hold Date, we will accept applications on a rolling basis. Please reach out directly to the residency program preceptor (Dr. Jennifer King; jennifer.king11@va.gov) and cc the Training Director (Dr. Jason Stolee; jason.stolee@va.gov) to express interest in applying. Please include the following materials: - Cover Letter - Graduate Transcripts (given the anticipated short turnaround, these may be unofficial) - Three Letters of Recommendation - Curriculum Vita. Applications will be reviewed and interviews offered in an efficient manner. Applicants need to meet Eligibility Requirements for all VA Psychology Training Programs, available at: www.psychologytraining.va.gov/eligibility.asp (these will need to be verified via the TQCVL process prior to the start of residency, see: https://www.va.gov/OAA/TQCVL.asp for details)

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