I feel incredibly fortunate that I matched to UCS for internship. During my internship year, I received high-quality generalist training, and also gained enough specialized experience to make me an attractive candidate for my post-doc year. I came out of internship feeling well-equipped for the next stage of my career. All of my UCS supervisors were incredibly competent, responsive, and caring. UCS allowed me room to be a human, and offered me a safe space to grow and be challenged. I’m thankful that because of UCS, internship was not just something that I had to get through. It was a transformative year of my life in which I learned, grew, and developed important relationships. From my first day to my last, I felt cared for and respected, both as a professional and as a person.

My internship at the UCS was the pinnacle of my professional training. My time there was full of supported and intentional self reflection, professional development, personal, and professional growth. The staff were genuinely invested in my training and me as a human. The multitude of didactics and clinical emphases offered space for interns to dive deep into their own professional passions, while still creating space to explore other interests, with deeply knowledgeable staff guiding the way. I cannot speak highly enough of the supervisors and supervision I received. During such a vulnerable year, having quality supervisors made me feel safe, secure, supported, and challenged, in all the ways necessary to grow as a psychologist. Lastly, you could not ask for a better, grounded, competent, and caring training director. This is something I can't emphasize enough. He set the tone for a culture of open minded spaces, critical thinking, authenticity, and true compassion. I greatly appreciated my time at Iowa UCS and cannot think of a place I would rather have spent my internship year.

I am incredibly grateful for the year I spent on my doctoral internship at UCS from 2020-2021. Even though the experience was fully online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I was able to build meaningful and supportive relationships with my supervisors while receiving top-notch training. This period was the most transformative in my growth as a clinician, thanks to the thoughtful and challenging feedback from my supervisors.

Their deep understanding of my clinical skills was evident through the thoroughness of the supervision. The diverse supervision styles I experienced—ranging from live supervision during group co-facilitation to reviewing recorded sessions—were instrumental in shaping my professional development. I wholeheartedly recommend the training at UCS and look back on my time there with great appreciation.

I was an intern at the UCS from 2018 to 2019. I got the best training so far from UCS and I could claim that even years after my doctoral graduation. The supervision was intensive and informative, where I learned the counseling theory and practice that I still utilize when conceptualizing clients nowadays. As a trainee and an international person, I was able to voice my concerns and firmly developed my professional identity as an emerging psychologist there. Also, the staff was a warm and welcoming group.