Eastern Campus

Message from the Training Director

Welcome to the APA-accredited Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology Program through WVU Medicine: Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry — Martinsburg. Our internship provides an individualized and developmentally attuned capstone training experience. 

This doctoral internship, housed within a rapidly expanding healthcare system, seeks to train entry-level clinicians in how to integrate the discipline and practice of professional psychology by employing an empirically sound, competency-based, practitioner-scholar model. The program provides experiences in clinical learning environments that are responsive to the diverse and changing needs of the rural West Virginia community.

The internship program ascribes to a longitudinal and developmental model. Interns will receive a generalist training experience, serving patients across all stages of life, with opportunities for specialization in minor focus areas.

In addition, there are five areas of emphasis, which we believe provide an understanding of the breadth of training experience offered at BMP: evidence-based treatment, integrated primary care using the Primary Care Behavioral Health model, learning disability/ADHD assessment, child and family services, and behavioral medicine.

Interns will be expected to engage in direct service provision, shadowing and other learning activities in these five areas throughout their training year. Furthermore, interns will participate in research, have opportunities to attend WVU grand rounds and have the opportunity to engage in training sessions provided through the medical school.

We will work closely with each intern to tailor an individualized plan for the internship year that builds upon each trainee’s unique strengths to integrate scientific knowledge with professional experiences. Interns will receive training in each of APA’s profession-wide competencies. Interns are supported as they further integrate their identities as practitioners and scholars, thus consolidating their unique therapeutic voice and professional identity. We strive to guide interns through this process by providing opportunities for continued growth via regularly scheduled didactics, training, supervision and consultation.

Please contact Kristen Whitmore, PsyD, the training director for the program, if you have any questions or would like to further discuss our internship program.