Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Arizona Psychology Training Consortium/ Sentience Psychological Services

Arizona Psychology Training Consortium
Phoenix, Arizona

Starts on Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Applications due Thursday, January 2, 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 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

Sentience is an ADHS licensed counseling facility that provides psychological services to assisted living homes, independent living homes, behavior units, and skilled nursing homes in the Phoenix area. We primarily specialize in working with geriatric clients who have complex medical and co-occurring mental health disorders. Sentience works with clients with a variety of psychological issues, including mood disorders, psychosis, post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, traumatic brain injuries, neurocognitive disorders and personality disorders.

Our clients vary in terms of ethnicity, age, socio-economic status, religious, sexual-orientation, and abilities. Our model of training at Sentience would be best described a practitioner-scientist model, with an emphasis on the Pikes Peak Model for training in professional Geropsychology.

The Direct Services Experiences will be 80% individual therapy, and we offer both individual and group supervision.

The Geropsychology Resident will have an opportunity to provide psychological interventions to older adults experiencing depression, anxiety, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries, pain, grief, neurocognitive disorders, and personality disorders. We provide training in Evidenced Based Therapies such as CBT for Psychosis, CBT for Insomnia, CBT for Chronic Pain, and Prolonged Exposure Therapy. The Geropsychology Residents may also have the opportunity to provide telepsychology services to increase the services for an already underserved population.

Our goal at Sentience is to provide an inclusive atmosphere to train ethical, culturally sensitive, independent Geropsychologists, who have the skills and knowledge to develop, implement, and evaluate services provided in Long Term Care.

Individual and Group supervision are provided.

https://www.azptc.org

Additional Information

Agency Type: Private Practice Clinic
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: No
Recognized Specialty: Geropsychology
Emphasis or focus area: Geropsychology
Other Emphasis: Geropsychology, Long Term Care, Older Adults
Research Time: No research time
Training Director: Elizabeth Capps-Conkle, Psy.D., LMFT
Contact Email: drcappsconkle@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 480-712-9998
Virtual Interviews: Available
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 2
Number of Positions: 1
Applications recieved last year: 1
Stipend: $45,000
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: Yes
Estimated offer date: Saturday, February 15 2025
Created Date: Wednesday, October 26 2022
Unfilled Positions: 0
Fringe Benefits: For full time residents, Sentience provides 80 hours of vacation and 50 hours of PTO and sick leave combined.
Research opportunities: None
Application Instructions: Please provide a letter of interest and CV to both Dr. Lancellotti:clinicaldirector@sentiencepsych.com and Dr. Capps-Conkle: drcappsconkle@gmail.com. Applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Residents can start at any time. The program start date is flexible, but likely on 8/7/2025 for the following year.. The full application includes: Letter of Interest, CV, transcript, (3) letters of recommendation, and expected graduation date.

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