Twelve graduate students from the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School have earned prestigious 2023-2024 internships across the country to complete their work for a Ph.D. Each year, students in their final year of doctoral studies compete nationally for APA-Accredited pre-doctoral internships to complete the applied portion of their degrees.
As in years past, this year was extremely competitive with nearly 4,000 students vying for positions nationwide. “We are so proud of this wonderful group of CCSP students for matching at such excellent sites,” Miya Barnett, Director of Clinical Training, says. “They have worked hard to get to this point in their careers and this next step is just the beginning of all of the impactful things they will do. Every internship site is lucky to get to work with these amazing trainees.”
The twelve students and their sites are:
Sepideh Alavi - VA Los Angeles Ambulatory Care Center
Samira Amirazizi - Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Emily Edelman - Saint John's Child & Family Development Center
Erick Felix - Arizona State University
Yessica Green Rosas - University of California, San Francisco/ Zuckerberg SFG
Maria Jimenez Munoz - Children's Hospital Colorado
Natalie Larez - Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital
Erika Luis Sanchez - UCLA Semel Institute
Chava Nerenberg - VA Medical Center, Washington, DC
Himadhari Sharma - University of California, Berkeley CAPS
Jazzmyn Ward - California State University, Northridge
Chongzheng Wei - Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility
All the students took part in the APPIC Internship Matching Program that places applicants into psychology internship positions at training sites in the United States and Canada. The Match is sponsored and supervised by the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC).