Conscious Culture Health Psychology Fellowship
The Conscious Culture Health Psychology Fellowship is a one year postdoctoral pre-licensed training program focused on the Advanced Specialty of Clinical Health Psychology in outpatient care serving Los Angeles and Orange County. The mission of the Fellowship is to advance multi-cultural competence skills among rising professionals in the Specialty of Health Psychology to increase access to culturally relevant mental health care for the ethnically diverse communities of Los Angeles and Orange County.
Post-Doctoral Level Training
Postdoctoral fellows are professionals who earned a doctorate degree in psychology, educational psychology, or an education degree that specializes in counseling psychology or educational psychology from a nationally-accredited school. The California Board of Psychology requires one year of direct supervised professional experience by a licensed psychologist after doctoral degree completion to obtain a license to practice. Fellows have pre-doctoral clinical experience under supervision during their training including 1500 required hours of clinical experience.
APPIC Member
An APPIC member is a training program that has undergone rigorous review by the APPIC Board of Directors, approved as meeting the 14 standards for advanced training in an area of professional psychology, and is in good standing. You can find our training program listed in the APPIC Postdoctoral Directory.
Advancing California’s Behavioral Health Workforce
CCPC's Health Psychology Fellowship was sponsored by the Mentored Internship Program, May 2024 - December 2025. The California Behavioral Health Workforce Development, California Department of Health Care Services, provided a grant to support our shared goal of improving the CA behavioral health workforce. We were able to improve our training program by working with a traditional community healer as an additional mentor to work with our fellows and staff to focus on program development with an Indigenous lens for self growth and self care for healthcare providers.
Goals
The goal of the program is to develop transformational leaders confident in their professional roles to enact socially just change through equity in culturally relevant mental health services. We hope to nurture transformational leaders in psychology who view social justice advocacy as part of their role as a multicultural competent psychologist. The program is defined by three main objectives:
1. Provide broad and general advanced training in psychology with emphasis on Clinical Health Psychology.
2. Prepare postdoctoral trainees to competently address the needs of diverse populations, with emphasis on the underserved including Native American and Latinx.
3. To socialize postdoctoral trainees to utilize critical thinking, problem solving, and meaningful self-reflection to develop into a Transformational Leader.
The objectives are defined by Advanced Competencies Required of All Programs at the Postdoctoral Level and the Specialty Competencies for Clinical Health Psychology by the Commission on Accreditation.
Training at CCPC is designed to provide experiences that instill confidence in the advanced skills that define a culturally competent health psychologist including integrating science and practice; upholding ethical and legal standards; self awareness; service delivery including assessment; intervention and interdisciplinary consultation; scholarly research; professional values, attitudes, and behaviors; communication and interpersonal skills; teaching and supervision; and transformational leadership.
ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
Director of Training
Anita L. Mihecoby, Ph.D., Comanche Nation Tribal member, licensed psychologist registered by the Board of Psychology in California, Florida, and Oklahoma, and certified by the National Register of Health Psychologists. Founder of CCPC.
The Director of Training (DoT) is the founder of Conscious Culture Psychology Clinic Inc. and is responsible for the vision and continued advancement of the Post Doctoral Fellowship. The DoT directs and organizes the training program and its resources. They are responsible for selection of Fellows. They will provide individual supervision and rotate in group supervision facilitation. The DoT is responsible for the practices and policies of the program including the goals, activities, documentation policies and assurance, maintenance of the Fellow's training records, and student complaints. They are responsible for monitoring and evaluating compliance with the guidelines by the Commission on Accreditation Implementing Regulations for Postdoctoral Residency Programs. The DoT is a permanent member of the training committee who prepares agendas and chairs the Training Committee meetings. The DoT will oversee diversity recruitment and retention of postdoctoral Fellows. The DoT will make appropriate changes based on feedback, complaints, and evaluations.
Training Supervisor
Annie N. Bui, Psy.D., Vietnamese-American and raised in Los Angeles County. Licensed psychologist registered by the Board of Psychology in California. Her clinical focus includes the intersection of culture, trauma, and health.
Guidelines & Accreditation
This training program was developed to meet the requirements for California licensure. APPIC Member approved as of 2023. Check out our post on the Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory for more information!
Requirements for Admission
Prior to the beginning of the fellowship, all applicants are expected to have completed a doctoral level degree in psychology, educational psychology, or an education degree that specializes in counseling psychology or educational psychology from a nationally-accredited school with training from an APA accredited doctoral program and pre-doctoral internship program, and are required to apply to the CBP to sit for the EPPP exam prior to beginning training.
The ideal applicant will have experience in:
Therapy - individual and group
Diagnostic evaluation and report writing
Health Psychology including holistic perspectives of health
Course work and or training in Multicultural Competence and Trauma Informed Care
Serving marginalized populations, specifically Native American and Latinx
Primary Care and or integrative behavioral health
Community centered psychology, liberation psychology, Indigenous ideologies of health including spirituality as a vital aspect to health and wellbeing.
Interviews happening now!
Applications accepted November - February.
CCPC follows APPIC Selection Guidelines.