Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Bay Pines VA HCS - Postdoctoral Fellowship with Training in PTSD and Women's PCMHI

Bay Pines VA Healthcare System
Bay Pines, Florida

Starts on Monday, August 11, 2025

Applications due Monday, December 9, 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

We have a total of 2 postdoctoral fellowship positions available for the 2025-2026 training year in our PTSD/Women's Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) fellowship. The PTSD/Women's PCMHI positions involve 6-month, fulltime rotations each in our PTSD Clinic and Women's PCMHI Clinic. The PTSD Clinic rotation is split between the virtual Model of Accelerated Service Delivery (vMASD) program within the Integrated Recovery Program (IRP; military, combat, and non-sexual traumas) and the Center for Sexual Trauma Services (CSTS; MST) residential program. The Women's PCMHI Clinic rotation involves working in a Primary Care Mental Health Integration setting utilizing a brief model of care with special emphasis on female veterans presenting with a wide array of concerns. Our fellowship has a long history of postdoctoral training of clinicians in working with veterans suffering from PTSD and trauma, with an emphasis on women's trauma. The positions are allocated as 70% clinical, 20% research, and 10% didactic/administrative. Please see our webpage below for further information.

Administrative Leadership Minor Rotation (Optional): The fellowship program is excited to offer the option to add a four-hour per week minor rotation in administrative leadership. This minor rotation will promote the interests and development of fellows who envision leadership roles within the general mental health service line in their future career. Exposure to management and other service/facility roles as a VHA psychologist (i.e., section chief, director, ACOS, program manager/admin supervisor, committee chair, TD/DOPT) will occur. During the four hours per week, fellows will have the option to shadow psychologists involved in such roles, familiarize themselves with mental health program requirements such as the Uniform Mental Health Services Handbook, and learn about data management as well as policy and programmatic processes. Fellows can audit VISN, facility and service level committees, or even take on the role of selections chair for the internship training program. Fellows will have the opportunity to observe suicide and violence prevention medical record flagging meetings and participate in psychology training recruitment, selection, and orientation/onboarding activities.

Couples and Family Program Minor Rotation (Optional): The couples and family program provides therapy to couples and families presenting with a variety of concerns including but not limited to communication challenges, infidelity, adjustment to civilian life, co-parenting problems, pre-marital relationship distress, trouble coping with new medical diagnoses, etc. This is a therapy focused rotation which consists of 60-minute sessions. Fellows may be able to see individual members of the couple and/or family in the context of couple/family therapy to address intrapersonal dynamics that may be impacting the system. This minor rotation will also allow for attendance of the virtual Advanced Family Topic Seminars. Over the course of this rotation, fellows will learn to deliver various evidence-based modalities such as Integrated Behavioral couples therapy (IBCT), Gottman method, Strategic Family Therapy, Systems theory, Bowenian Family Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, and Emotion Focused Couples therapy (EFT-C). Brief assessments/measurement-based care may be utilized throughout the therapeutic process.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr. Alysia Siegel @ 727-398-6661 x14929 or alysia.siegel@va.gov.

https://https://www.va.gov/bay-pines-health-care/work-with-us/internships-and-fellowships/

Additional Information

Agency Type: VA Medical Center
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: Yes
Emphasis or focus area: PTSD (Trauma)
Other Emphasis: Women's Trauma
Research Time: Less than 25%
Training Director: Dr. Alysia Siegel
Contact Email: alysia.siegel@va.gov
Contact Phone: 727-398-6661 x14929
Virtual Interviews: Strongly Preferred
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 3
Number of Positions: 2
Applications recieved last year: 13
Stipend: $53,334
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: Yes
Estimated offer date: Monday, February 24 2025
Created Date: Friday, July 1 2016
Unfilled Positions: 0
Fringe Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance available. Fellows will accrue 4 hours of paid sick leave 4 hours of paid annual leave (vacation time) every two-week pay period. This equates to approximately 13 days of sick leave and 13 days of annual leave (vacation time) over the course of the Fellowship year. In addition, there are 11 Federal Holidays. With approval of supervisors and the Training Director, administrative leave for licensing exams, job searches, conference attendance, or professional presentations may be authorized.
Research opportunities: All postdoctoral fellows are expected to engage in either a research project or program evaluation as part of their duties. Fellows meet with research supervisors to help identify and delineate potential projects. The Psychology Service at the Bay Pines VAHCS has two existing databases, related to our PCT and Neuropsychology Clinics, from which fellows can access data for their project if they so choose, after meeting with the database managers and appropriate review by Research and Design Committee (and IRB, if needed). Fellows are required to present the findings of their approved research project in the form of a professional poster/symposium at the mental health grand rounds, usually scheduled toward the end of the training year (in June or July). Additionally, they may also present/disseminate their completed research project as a poster, presentation, symposium, or article/manuscript in a variety of external venues.
Additional Comments: If all positions are not filled after the Common Hold Date on 02/24/25, we will engage in a second round of applications
Application Instructions: If you are interested in applying, please do so via the APPA-CAS system. Required documents for this program include a letter of interest indicating the track to which you are applying, an updated vita, letters from 3 professional references, a letter from the chair of your dissertation/doctoral project committee to verify completion or scheduling of defense, academic transcripts, and completion of VHA form 10-2850D. Note: While not a requirement for application, applicants are strongly encouraged to defend their dissertations at least one month prior to the beginning of the start date of 8/11/2025. Interviews for the positions will be conducted virtually, though on-campus tours and meetings may be available. We are excited about your consideration of our program and look forward to receiving your application. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Training Director, Dr. Alysia Siegel, at alysia.siegel@va.gov or 727-398-6661 x14929.

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