Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship / Residency
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho | Full-Time, 12 Months | $55,000–$65,000 stipend
Are you completing your doctorate and looking for a postdoctoral experience that develops both confidence and clinical depth? Would you value strong supervision, varied outpatient work, and room to shape your emerging professional identity?
About Voluntas Psychotherapy
Voluntas Psychotherapy is a Coeur d’Alene group psychotherapy practice committed to compassionate, individualized mental health care. We support clients experiencing concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, behavioral and emotional challenges, identity questions, life transitions, and other issues affecting well-being.
We welcome clinicians with diverse theoretical orientations, specialties, and populations of interest. Depending on training and experience, services may include individual therapy, child and adolescent therapy, couples counseling, and family therapy using CBT, family systems, solution-focused, trauma-informed, existential, psychodynamic, play-based, or other ethical and evidence-informed approaches.
Fellowship Experience
· Annual stipend of $55,000–$65,000, based on prior experience and scope of responsibilities.
· A structured 12-month supervised postdoctoral experience designed to support progress toward Idaho psychologist licensure.
· Regular individual supervision by an Idaho-licensed psychologist, with additional case consultation and professional development.
· A gradually developing outpatient caseload matched to competence, interests, and training goals.
· Experience with intake, diagnostic assessment, psychotherapy, treatment planning, documentation, and interdisciplinary coordination.
· Opportunities to develop a specialty and contribute to future clinical services, outreach, or assessment programming.
· Administrative support for scheduling, billing, credentialing, and practice operations.
Primary Responsibilities
· Provide supervised outpatient psychological services to individuals, children or adolescents, couples, and/or families within demonstrated competence.
· Conduct diagnostic interviews, formulate cases, develop treatment plans, and evaluate clinical progress.
· Complete accurate and timely progress notes, reports, and other required documentation.
· Assess risk, follow crisis procedures, and coordinate higher levels of care when clinically indicated.
· Participate actively in individual supervision, case consultation, training, and professional-development planning.
· Collaborate with medical providers, schools, and community professionals when appropriate and authorized.
· Follow HIPAA, Idaho psychology rules, professional ethics, payer requirements, and practice policies.
Required Qualifications
· Doctoral degree, or completion of all doctoral requirements before the fellowship start date, in clinical or counseling psychology from an appropriately accredited program.
· Successful completion of a qualifying doctoral internship before the fellowship start date.
· Eligibility to obtain supervised postdoctoral experience toward Idaho psychologist licensure.
· Strong foundational skills in assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy, risk evaluation, documentation, and ethical decision-making.
· Professional communication, reliability, self-reflection, and openness to supervision.
· Ability to pass required background and credentialing checks.
Preferred Qualifications
· APA-accredited doctoral program and APA- or APPIC-member internship.
· Interest in serving adults, children, adolescents, couples, or families in outpatient care.
· Training in CBT, family systems, trauma-informed care, existential therapy, psychodynamic therapy, psychological assessment, or another evidence-informed specialty.
· Interest in establishing a long-term professional role in North Idaho following licensure.
Who Will Benefit Most
The strongest candidate will be a thoughtful, dependable early-career psychologist who seeks both support and increasing autonomy. You should value close supervision, ethical practice, intellectual curiosity, careful documentation, and the opportunity to contribute ideas while developing a sustainable professional identity.
How to Apply
Apply through Indeed with your curriculum vitae, cover letter, and contact information for three professional references. Please describe your doctoral program and internship, anticipated degree-completion date, postdoctoral training goals, clinical interests, and Idaho licensure plans. Final credit toward licensure is determined by the Idaho Board; the supervision plan will be documented before the fellowship begins.
Learn more about the practice: https://voluntaspsychotherapy.com
Voluntas Psychotherapy is committed to a respectful, inclusive workplace and considers qualified applicants without regard to legally protected status. Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process upon request.
Pay: $55,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
