Postgraduate Clinical Psychology Fellow in Nottingham

About the Fellowship

The Advanced Clinical Fellowship at CTSA is a structured, psychotherapy-focused postdoctoral experience designed for clinicians who want to slow down, go deeper, and become truly excellent at what they do. This isn’t a high-volume, churn-and-burn role. It’s a program built around clinical depth, strong thinking, and meaningful development over time. The goal is not just to learn more techniques—it’s to become a clinician who knows how to think, conceptualize, and work relationally with confidence and clarity. Our work is grounded in an integrative, trauma-informed, and relational approach, with attention to both top-down and bottom-up processes.

What This Role Actually Looks Like

At the core of the fellowship is a primary caseload of about 22–25 individual therapy sessions per week. We’ve structured it this way so that:

• You can build depth and continuity with clients
• You’re not stretched too thin while you’re still developing
• We can offer a full-time salary with benefits, even with a reduced caseload

This caseload is the foundation of the role. It doesn’t get replaced by groups, workshops, or other activities. That said, there are often opportunities to get involved in:

• Group therapy
• Intensives or workshops
• Specialty offerings through CTSA or Get Centered Wellness, LLC (our sister practice)

Those are encouraged when they make sense developmentally, and are typically additional (and separately compensated).

Training & Support

You’ll be supported in a way that’s closer to an academic training environment than a typical group practice. Each week includes:

• Individual supervision
• Group supervision (while provisionally licensed)
• Group consultation (once licensed)
• Case conference and professional development

We put a lot of emphasis on how you’re thinking about your cases, not just what you’re doing in session.

How the Fellowship Is Structured

Year 1 – Foundations

This year is about becoming a strong, grounded generalist. We focus on:

• Building a solid therapeutic alliance
• Working through resistance, avoidance, and rupture
• Case conceptualization and diagnosis
• Clinical judgment and ethical decision-making
• Developing your identity as a clinician

There’s also an ongoing focus on nervous system awareness, presence, and somatic/mindfulness-based work to lay the groundwork for specialization in anxiety or trauma.

Year 2 – Specialization

You’ll choose a primary focus:

• Anxiety Track

• OCD, panic, phobias, health anxiety
• Exposure-based work
• Avoidance patterns and safety behaviors

• Attachment trauma
• Dissociation and chronic dysregulation
• Somatic and stabilization-focused approaches

We provide financial support for a certification aligned with your track (EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, etc.), and your caseload and supervision are shaped around your focus.

Year 3 (Optional) - Dual Specialization

For fellows who want to go further:

• Dual specialization in anxiety and trauma treatment
• More complex cases
• Opportunities for leadership, mentorship, and advanced training
• Supervisor training

A Note on Additional Opportunities

Assessment work: This is not a core part of the fellowship. However, we do have a testing psychologist/neuropsychologist affiliated with our sister practice, and there may be opportunities to get involved on an adjunctive basis if that’s an area of interest.

Intensives & workshops: These are typically introduced later, most often in the second year, and more intentionally if you engage in the optional third year.

Who This Is a Good Fit For

This tends to be a strong fit for people who:

• Want to go deep in relational psychotherapy, not just learn techniques
• Value strong supervision and actually want feedback
• Are interested in developing expertise and specialization in trauma and/or anxiety work from an integrative lens
• Are ok with structure, and want to be part of a thoughtful training process
• Care about becoming a really solid clinician, not just getting hours

Requirements

• Completion of doctoral program and internship prior to start
• Licensure as a Psychology Associate in Maryland by the start date (at a minimum)
• Eligible to sit for EPPP exam by start date

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $60,000–$75,000

Full-time W-2 position

Benefits included (medical, disability & life insurance, 401(k) with 4% match)

Paid Time Off

Supervision and training built in

Financial support for advanced certification