Are you interested in training in an interdisciplinary team model to expand your knowledge and experience with assessment and evaluation?
Do you want a post-doctoral training experience where you are respected as a colleague and able to grow as a psychologist?
Consider applying to a full-time or part-time fellowship with Learning Solutions.
Learning Solutions, an interdisciplinary assessment practice in Western Massachusetts has two positions available for a Postdoctoral Fellowship. We invite applicants for a two-year full-time fellowship within our thriving, interdisciplinary practice. We work with children, adolescents, college students, adults and families from a wide range of socioeconomic and culturally diverse backgrounds with a wide degree of psychological, emotional, developmental, and educational needs throughout the Pioneer Valley and beyond.
About Learning Solutions
Learning Solutions is an interdisciplinary psychoeducational assessment practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. We work with children, adults, and families in need of support for a range of educational, psychological, and cognitive needs. We pride ourselves in having a collaborative environment with professionals who love their work. We are a women-owned business, and all members of our team are valued for their contributions.
Our group, includes psychologists, neuropsychologists, social workers, doctoral student trainees, speech therapists, educational evaluator, and psychometrists, offers a wide variety of assessment and treatment services for language, learning and psychological issues. We diagnose and treat conditions including, but not limited to, learning disorders, autism, ADHD, behavior problems, fine motor coordination disorders, language-based learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, memory issues, processing speed difficulties, psychiatric and psychological issues, gender diversity, and social skills difficulties. We provide professional development, professional consultation and training to educators, clinicians, and other professionals in New England and beyond. We also provide psychotherapy, consultation to schools, professional development and training, professional consultation groups and supervision, coaching, education and training, school IEP evaluations, independent evaluations, and programs to aid the client’s progress.
We value diversity and a non-competitive professional environment where we support self-reflective practices and help one another develop and increase knowledge with compassion, support, and respect. We are a three-women-owned business committed to a work-life balance. Our diverse staff of clinicians operate from various psychological theories and training models, allowing for multiple ways of viewing the client. We utilize a strength-based approach and client-centered language in our theoretical framework and clinical conceptualization. We view diagnosis as a tool, to assist the client in meeting unmet needs, providing appropriate interventions and/or accommodations, and helping frame their difficulties. We have monthly lunches and quarterly outside-of-work gatherings. We are a smart bunch of people with a good sense of humor and value integrity, ethical work, and creativity in our professional practices.
About the Training Program
We offer a robust training program customized to your needs and interests, with opportunities for growth and employment. Most of our post-doctoral fellows have become employees once licensed, and many of our trainees return for multiple years. We view our post-doctoral fellows and pre-doctoral practicum students as members of our team and value your insight, input, experience, education, and what you uniquely bring the practice. We understand the importance of identity and professional identity and view the post-doctoral fellowship as an opportunity to expand on your prior training while also finding new learning edges.
We have intentionally chosen a two-year fellowship because we have found the learning curve in this (often final) leg of training to be steep and in order to fully consolidate skills, a two-year commitment is needed. This also allows trainees to have the experience of not needing to plan for the “next thing” so soon after starting, and many are able to complete all licensure requirements (including the EPPP) and obtain licensure before completion of the post-doctoral fellowship. We are happy to discuss this further at the interview.
Our program includes training and experience on a wide variety of testing instruments, collaboration with other professionals, report writing, clinical interviewing, feedback sessions, interventions and supervising pre-doctoral trainees. The training includes:
- Assessment and evaluation for children, adolescents, young adults, college students and adults with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and presenting concerns with opportunities to specialize in areas and populations of interest. Types of assessments include:
- Psychological and neuropsychological, including cognitive, neurocognitive, executive functioning, personality, social/emotional, projective testing, comprehensive autism evaluations, and memory
- Social pragmatics and social communication
- School contracts
- Assessments for accommodations
- Attorney referrals
- Department of Child and Family Services referrals
- Clinical team meetings
- Supervision with licensed psychologist(s) and/or neuropsychologist
- Clinical interviews/intake sessions with clients
- Feedback sessions with clients and families
- Professional development and training
- Supervising and training pre-doctoral practicum students
Areas of Focus
In addition to the abovementioned training, post-doctoral fellows choose one or two areas of interest. These can include:
- School-based evaluations
- Psychoeducational assessment
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Executive functioning coaching
- Training and outreach to other organizations, schools, college, and clinicians
Philosophy of Training
We view clinical training as an important component of our mission, and value supervisory relationships, and growth and training that occur in those relationships. Our clinical training models the directed developmental interpersonal process that values diversity on all levels. We view training as an interpersonal and relational process incorporating the individual’s needs, style, strengths, and growing edges. We value mutual processing of the supervisory relationship.
We value diversity, both in the clients we serve and in the staff. We believe that for the fullest understanding of human beings and for the widest applicability of skills that training should encompass diversity on multiple levels.
We value an ethical framework and professional socialization as part of training. We value the importance of self-reflection, with regards to our power and privilege in society and especially with clients. We utilize the parameters of the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists, while simultaneously appreciating that these principles demand vigilance and practice in order to understand and apply them. These practices are integrated into our clinical work, ongoing education and training for staff, and personal lives.
We value social justice in our training and believe that an awareness of issues of social justice that exist in the clinical world is essential to the practice of psychology. Many of our clients are underserved and/or disempowered, and often our work with them is to help with issues of inequality or barriers to accessing education and/or treatment. We utilize a socio-cultural lens when conceptualizing our client’s present situations and presenting problems and recognize that not all identities are visible. We acknowledge that white privilege exists, oppression and discrimination are real, and condemn violence against people of color and experiencing oppression. We stand with people of color and of oppressed identities. We support the political movements aimed at dismantling racism, improving equality, and increasing diversity.
Requirements
-Doctoral level degree (Ph.D, Psy.D, Ed.D) in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, or Educational Psychology
-Previous experience conducting assessments and knowledge of various assessment tools
-Previous psychotherapy and/or clinical interviewing experience
-Curiosity and willingness to learn
-Sense of humor
-Self-motivated
Start date September 2027. Flexibility in scheduling and hybrid (remote and in-person) options available.
Full-time salary:
First Year: $60,000, plus benefits.
Second Year: $68,000, plus retirement package and benefits.
We welcome and encourage applicants of historically marginalized identities to apply.
To Apply:
Interested applicants should send a cover letter and CV, three letters of recommendation, two redacted reports, and a graduate transcript (unofficial copies are acceptable) to:
Rachael Goren, MPH, Psy.D
Director of Training
rgoren@learningsolutionsls.com
Applications are due by January 4, 2027 and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Email applications are encouraged.