Application & Selection Process

All applications must be received by 11:59 PM (CST) Saturday, November 8th, 2025.

Applicants will be notified of their interview status by Friday, December 13th, 2025.

Application Requirements

We accept applicants from APA-Accredited doctoral programs in Clinical or Counseling Psychology. If your program is in the process of receiving APA accreditation, you are welcome to apply. Applicants must have completed all formal requirements towards Ph.D. or Psy.D. Candidacy, certified by your Training Directors. In addition, we have the following requirements:

Completed a minimum of 500 hours of supervised experience, including 250 hours in direct provision of psychological services and 100 hours in formal supervision.
Acceptance of dissertation proposal by dissertation committee no later than the APPIC ranking date.
Ability and willingness to uphold all Baylor University standards of conduct. You can view Baylor’s “Personnel Policies” here.
Ability and willingness to demonstrate a spiritual attitude and a Christian lifestyle consistent with the beliefs, methods, and goals of Baylor University. See the "Working at a Faith-Based Christian University" page for more info.
Matched interns must submit and pass a prospective employee background check.

International students must additionally provide proof of eligibility for employment, from their academic institution indicating that they are eligible for Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Optional Practical Training (OPT), as our university cannot provide sponsorship. This proof of eligibility must be stated on the intern’s I-20 issued by the institution. In addition, the OPT/CPT process needs to be facilitated through the intern’s academic program or institution.

Indicators of good fit

In addition to the minimum requirements outlined above, the Intern Selection Committee takes the following preferred qualifications into account:

Interest in an internship that utilizes a relational, “use-of-self” model, focusing on self-reflection and self-awareness.
A commitment to cultural humility and working toward intercultural effectiveness.
An interest in attending to religion and spirituality in clinical work.
Clinical experience with college student population.
Interest in working with trauma in a university context.
Completion of 1,000 hours of supervised experience, including 500 hours in direct provision of psychological services and 100 hours in formal supervision.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively as a part of a multi-disciplinary team of university health, mental health, and student development professionals.
Strong initiative and ability to independently complete tasks and projects.

Selection Process

Our selection process follows all APPIC guidelines and APPIC Match Policies – www.appic.org Specifically, our internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this training site will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from an intern applicant.

Application Info

Our internship uses the standard process administered by APPIC for the match. Our application requirements generally follow the minimum requirements for the AAPI online. All application materials listed below are uploaded via the AAPI portal. Go to www.APPIC.org under "Internships" for guidance. Our minimum components are:

A cover letter explaining why you believe you would be a good fit with the internship program at Baylor University Counseling Center.
Current curriculum vitae
Official graduate transcripts
We require three letters of recommendation - with a least two from clinical supervisors who will speak directly about the quality of your clinical work and your engagement in clinical supervision.

Responses to all items on the AAPI are required to have your application be considered complete.

Our whole staff is involved in the process of reviewing applications and deciding which applicants to invite for interviews. We will notify applicants by mid-December regarding their status for interviews.

Interviews

We use the NatMatch interview scheduling system for our interviews, which should standardize your experience of scheduling. We also will notify you ahead of time of the date and time when interviews will first be available to schedule so that everyone can be prepared.

Interviews are conducted during the first 2 weeks of January. Consistent with the recommendation of APPIC, we offer only video interviews (via Zoom).
Interviews begin with candidates presenting a case that illustrates their clinical work. Then we have a standardized set of questions developed by the staff that may be supplemented with specific questions for each candidate. Please feel free to ask questions throughout the interview, and we will hold some time for questions at the end.
After your interview with staff, there will be a 30 minute meeting with the Training Director. There is no formal structure for this time, in order to allow interns the freedom to use it as is beneficial to them. We hope it helps you get to know the internship and the Training Director better, and have a sense if our year of training is a good fit for you.
Applicants are encouraged to talk to current interns, and are welcome to contact staff at any time if they have questions. Contact information for current interns will be provided upon request.

Open House

If applicants would like to visit our center to aid them in determining whether we would be a good fit for them, we will be offering an online open house in early January. The open house offers an opportunity to meet our staff, learn more about the various opportunities we offer, and have more extensive time to speak with our current interns. Attendance or non-attendance at the open house does not factor into selection decisions.

Additional Info

If you have questions regarding our program or the application process, please contact the Training Director, Dr. Ed Rogers, at (254) 710-2467 or Ed_Rogers1@baylor.edu

Academic Programs Requesting Additional Contracts and/or Evaluations

The Doctoral Internship in Psychology program at the Baylor University Counseling Center endorses the APPIC Match process as binding.

Counseling Services therefore does not enter into additional training contracts or written training agreements beyond what is required to participate in Match. If an applicant’s academic program requires such a contract, they are strongly encouraged to consult with their Director of Clinical Training (DCT) about this requirement now. If they indicate that they require such contracts and are unwilling to waive this requirement then the application will not be considered.

Similarly, interns at Baylor University Counseling Center receive ongoing formative and summative evaluative feedback from supervisors throughout the training year. These evaluations are based on our program's philosophy of training, training model, and the goals, objectives, and competencies that define the internship. At mid-year and again at the end of the year the internship Training Coordinator sends the academic program’s Director of Clinical Training (DCT) a letter summarizing the intern's performance to date and a copy of their evaluation. Therefore, if an applicant is enrolled in an academic training program that requires additional departmental program evaluations, these will not be completed by Baylor University Counseling Center staff. The academic program may choose to use the data from our evaluations to complete their own forms. Again, applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with their DCT if there are any questions about such requirements to see if they are eligible to apply to our site.

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