Practicum

Practicum Training Program 2024-2025

Our training program is full for the 2024-2025 training year.

Agency Mission

Ritual Wellness ATX is a women-owned, trauma-informed, and social justice informed group practice in Austin, TX. We strive to provide individual and collective healing for our community through high-quality, culturally sensitive, and person-centered mental health services and training.

Training Program Aim

Our program trains postdocs to provide collaborative, integrated care with an emphasis on culturally appropriate and social justice oriented interventions. Our program entails clinical work with diverse client populations in a group practice setting. Trainees will manage a psychotherapy caseload. One-on-one supervision and training will support the trainee as he/she/they navigate the working with clients in a manner which centers social justice. Our practice focuses on collaborative, integrated care with an emphasis on culturally appropriate and social justice oriented care.

Training Program Description

A typical weekly schedule for a practicum trainee includes:

Maximum 12 hours per week:

  • 2 hours per week for supervision

  • 1 hour to review/process recorded parts of weekly sessions and 1 hour for support/didactic training.

  • 1 hour for documentation

  • 1 hour for training. Topics may include but are not limited to:

    • Telehealth trainings

      • how to provide telehealth in ethical manner and HIPPA

      • logistics of telehealth (basic technology needed)

      • licensure and interjurisdictional

      • Clinical interventions via telehealth - how to assess for risk, etc.

  • Couples Training

  • Trauma Basics - how looks like in room; how to be trauma-informed

  • Family Therapy - genograms

  • Basics of providing culturally sensitive care

  • Working with Immigrants, Refugees and Undocumented Persons

  • Experiential/Emotion-Focused Interventions

  • Professional Identity and Case Conceptualization

  • Alliance Building and Treatment Intervention

  • Optional: Group case consultation meeting every other Monday at 2pm

  • Optional: Monthly Social Justice meeting 1x a month on Monday at 3pm

All services, in-person and telehealth, will be conducted in our office (11614 Bee Caves Road, Suite 270, Austin, TX 78738)

  • 1 out of total client load will be telehealth; 1 out of 8 (maximum)

*Trainees will need to use their own laptop to document sessions and conduct telehealth sessions

Types of clients:
individual clients, adults, generally presenting with the following but not limited to: anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, adjustment, identity development, and grief. Cases will be screened by the Training Director and/or supervisor; complex cases will be referred to senior clinicians.

*No evenings or weekend hours

Supervisory Plan:

  • Supervisors will mainly draw from the integrative models of supervision, including but not limited developmental supervision model, person-centered supervision, feminist model of supervision

Policy for Trainees:

  • In onboarding/first supervision session (before see any clients), trainee will be informed of risk assessment basics and when to bring in the supervisor.

  • Should any risk be detected in a session, trainees will be directed to bring in supervisor and leave the door open; supervisor will join the session with the trainee - assess the person and help create the safety plan

  • At the beginning of practicum, trainee names 5 personal learning goals for the term For more information or to apply to our practicum program, please contact our Training Director: Kruti Patel, PhD (dr.kruti@ritualwellnessatx.com)