Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Arizona Psychology Training Consortium/A-Z Neuropsychology, LLC

Arizona Psychology Training Consortium
Tucson, Arizona

Starts on Friday, August 7, 2026

Applications due Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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 of 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 A-Z postdoctoral residency training program is geared toward comprehensive training in neuropsychological assessment. The program is designed to last 2 years, and to prepare residents to pursue board certification (ABPP) in Clinical Neuropsychology.

Residents have the opportunity to receive training in both pediatric and adult neuropsychological assessment, and referral sources as well as presenting conditions are decidedly diverse (e.g., ranging from autism spectrum disorder to dementia with Lewy bodies). We believe that a competent understanding of all ages is critical to good practice, and also that a postdoctoral residency program should prioritize breadth of training more than specialization. In addition to the didactic experiences provided through the Consortium to residents, A-Z hosts an in-house didactic series equipped with mock examination elements designed specifically to assist residents in preparing for the ABPP board certification process.

Our office is generally open weekdays from 8 am - 5 pm, though Dr. Burger occasionally conducts assessments or otherwise provides services during evening or weekend hours. Residents are not required to work outside of normal business hours; should there be a case they wish to be involved in that is happening outside of normal hours, arrangements can be made to reduce hours during a neighboring week (in order to maintain the 40 hour per work week expectation).

Neuropsychological assessment (clinical interview, formal testing, scoring, report writing, and feedback provision) with adults first, and then with children - 75% • Participation in the development and provision of evidence-based group protocols tailored toward conditions of neurologic compromise (e.g., literature reviews, adaptations of existing protocols, etc.) and in the subsequent provision of clinical services in a group format - 10% • Development and provision of 2 presentations (on approved topics) per year, formatted like CE courses - 2.5% • Monthly attendance at didactic trainings, orchestrated by the Arizona Psychology Training Consortium (PHX area), attendance/participation in in-house/conference didactic opportunities - 10%-12.5% • Maintenance of a small (1 client at a time) therapy caseload desired (optional) - 2.5%.

Group therapy is planned to resume in January of 2025, with caregivers of patients with neurodegenerative (dementia) conditions and individuals in the early stages of neurodegeneration serving as our initial target groups. Future planned target groups include TBI survivors and children with executive challenges (e.g., those on the spectrum or with ADHD and related conditions). The opportunity to carry a small therapy caseload (1 client at a time) is offered to residents once they are independently testing (i.e., following training completion), but not required.

This site offers Individual and Group supervision as well as Case Conferences.

https://www.azptc.org

Additional Information

Agency Type: Private Practice Clinic
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: No
Recognized Specialty: Clinical Neuropsychology
Emphasis or focus area: Neuropsychology
Other Emphasis: At A-Z, the primary focus is on assessment across the lifespan. This includes primarily neuropsychological assessment, but also psychological assessment, psychoeducational assessment.
Research Time: No research time
Training Director: Elizabeth Capps-Conkle, Psy.D.
Contact Email: drcappsconkle@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 480-712-9998
Virtual Interviews: Available
Duration in Months: 24
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 2
Number of Positions: 1
Applications recieved last year: 3
Accepts Int'l Students
Stipend: $45,000
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: Yes
Estimated offer date: Saturday, January 31 2026
Created Date: Monday, December 9 2019
Fringe Benefits: Benefits include paid vacation time (5 days per year, approved in advance), paid sick days (10 per year, as needed), and paid holidays (A-Z has a very generous holiday schedule - work hard, play hard!). Participation in an employee-sponsored retirement program is also offered after the resident successfully completes their first year of training. Incoming residents will have their own office, and all required materials (testing materials, laptop, etc.) will be provided for their use.
Research opportunities: There are no current research projects.
Application Instructions: Applications are accepted on a revolving basis. For priority Fall consideration, applications are due December 31. Applicants should send an initial inquiry and CV to both Dr. Sarah Burger (sburger@a-zneuropsychology.com) and to Dr. Elizabeth Capps-Conkle (drcappsconkle@gmail.com). Consortium required application materials (to be sent both to the side and to the Consortium) include: (1) A cover letter summarizing the applicant's training interests and listing A-Z Neuropsychology, LLC as the specific training site of interest, (2) A curriculum vitae (CV), (3) Documentation that all of the applicant's doctoral requirements (including internship and dissertation) will be complete prior to the start of residency; this can take the form of (a) a letter from the director of clinical training or the dissertation chair of the applicant's graduate program or (b) an official transcript verifying degree completion, (4) official transcripts from all doctoral studies (it is acceptable to wait until the degree is conferred to send the transcript from the degree-granting program), and (5) Three letters of recommendation, sent directly/securely. Site-specific required application materials (to be sent directly to Dr. Burger) include: (1) 3 de-identified neuropsychological evaluation reports (original writing samples).

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