Applications are open for the 2024-2025 year.

Get to Know Us!

​Wavelengths Psychology is a private group practice serving children, adolescents, adults, and families in the wonderful communities of Massapequa and Garden City.  Our therapists are friendly, professional, and dedicated to ensuring the highest level of care.  We are honored to take part in our clients' life journeys, and we give 100% every day because we believe in successful outcomes and we love what we do!

Statement of Purpose
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Wavelengths Psychology PC is committed to the service of improving mental health utilizing a neuropsychological perspective that acknowledges and addresses the connection of brain, body, and mind, as well as the power of the therapeutic process to assist and inspire all people to be the happiest, most successful version of themselves.

To this end, we hold strongly to the following values:

1. Diversity and Inclusion
   1. We believe that creating a psychologically safe space begins with our staff experience, and we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment where employees feel welcomed and empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, neurodiversity, disability, veteran status or any other aspect that makes them unique. We believe diversity drives creativity and growth, so we encourage a culture that celebrates multiple points of view and where difference is valued. 
2. Warmth and Hospitality
   1. All clients and staff at Wavelengths Psychology PC feel welcomed when they enter the practice.  This is a place of peace, empathy, caring, and hospitality.
3. Respect and Dignity
   1. We recognize the unique journey of each person and maintain that all persons have the right to be treated with respect and dignity. We respect the decisions that each person makes for their own well-being, as well as the individual differences that may impact these decisions. Although there may be times when we provide direct advice, we aspire to engage openly and empathically in order to support clients in making the choices that are right for them.
4. Honesty and Authenticity
   1. We maintain that honest feedback and authenticity are key elements to mental health, professional growth, and business success.  We encourage a culture of honesty and authenticity, where everyone in the company, regardless of position, strives for accountability, seeks help as needed, is open to both praise and constructive criticism, and provides feedback to others in the spirit of creating positive changes.
5. Support and Collaboration
   1. We are dedicated to supporting our clients and each other as we engage in the business of mental health. We strive to build strong rapport with clients, create a safe space for healing, and help our clients identify and build positive connections with their family and community supports wherever possible. As a practice, we engage in a team model that allows us to collaborate on ideas and share areas of expertise.
6. Community and Social Action
   1. We thrive on the strength of our community support and connection.  In turn, we are committed to engaging in socially responsible actions including professional collaboration, outreach, training, volunteer work, and responding to community crises.
7. Growth and Success
   1. We are dedicated to successful outcomes with our clients. As such, we strive to grow professionally, to continually increase our capacity for helping others, and to engage in ongoing education regarding best practices. We model self-care and boundaries with the goal of being better able to connect with our clients and bringing our highest level of attention, enthusiasm, and creativity to the work we do. ​

The Pre-Doctoral Psychology Internship is a one-year, full-time program or two-year, part-time program offered in our Long Island, NY locations of Garden City and Massapequa Park. This program is available to matriculated doctoral students in clinical, counseling, and school psychology programs. We are a full-service practice providing clinical treatment, assessment, and neurofeedback to individuals, couples, families, and groups for clients ages three-adult. We provide two hours of weekly individual supervision (one hour clinical, one hour assessment), as well as weekly didactics and staff meetings. We also offer a unique opportunity to become certified in neurofeedback and learn about the business of private practice.

As our practice is open evenings and weekends, our internship is ideal for interns who need to balance their fellowship with family or with other employment.

Our program adheres to the APA ethics code and meets requirements for licensing as a psychologist in New York State. The program is NOT currently accredited by the APA.

Our program follows the scientist-practitioner model of training, with the goal of producing graduates who have advanced skills with a variety of patient populations. Areas of training and experience include ethics, crisis intervention, HIPAA compliance and documentation, psychological assessment, and evidence-based clinical intervention with outpatient clients ages three-adult.  Interns interested in neurofeedback certification will be provided the necessary supervision and training in order qualify for board certification in neurofeedback by the end of their internship. Training consists of didactics, clinical experiences and supervision. Interns spend approximately 65% of their time providing clinical services to patients, 20% in training and supervision, and 15% in private practice leadership.

Training Philosophy

Our clinical training is based on the scientist-practitioner model, providing interns with in-depth clinical experience which becoms increasingly complex over the course of the year.  This model encourages receptivity to multiple approaches to a problem, empirically supported approaches tempered by skepticism and critical inquiry, professional responsibility, and lifelong learning.  In addition, we explore ongoing awareness of personal biases and their impact on observation, the consideration of the ethical implications of interventions, and we hold collegial interaction and feedback in high regard. The model captures our program's inclusion of a multiplicity of treatment modalities and methods, as well as extensive supervision (often involving videotaped or observed sessions) to cultivate the intern's observational skills, including those which are self-reflective.

Through close clinical supervision, seminars, and collaborative outreach work with multi-disciplinary treatment teams in local schools, hospitals, and agencies, interns are trained to provide theoretically sound clinical services to children, adolescents and families. Interns learn clinical interventions which are grounded in the latest research and literature in the field of psychology. 
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The primary aim of our training program is to develop or enhance our interns’ basic competencies in the delivery of a variety of psychological services in an outpatient setting, including basic competencies in the following: Ethical and Legal Standards; Individual and Cultural Diversity; Professional Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors; Research and Evidence-based Intervention; Communication; Interpersonal Skills; Assessment; Consultation; and Interprofessional/Interdisciplinary Skills.

Clinical Training

​Psychology Interns will have the opportunity to provide weekly therapy for individuals, couples, families, and groups, and conduct a minimum of six supervised psychological evaluations over the course of their training. Interns will also be provided with training in neurofeedback and conduct neurofeedback sessions with clients. Interns attend two hours of supervision, one hour of staff meeting, and one hour of didactics weekly.  Additional opportunities for training include group supervision and an extensive offering of free or low-cost psychology trainings offered by the local professional resorces on Long Island.  

Interns provide clinical services to patients in our offices in Garden City and in Massapequa Park. Outpatient clinical services provided by interns includes:
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• Clinical Interventions and treatment (short-or long-term) including psychotherapy, telehealth, and play therapy.
• Psychological Assessment
• Consultation
• Neurofeedback 

Clinical Supervision

​Supervision is the primary training modality for professional development and growth in assessment, treatment, and consultation.  Supervision takes place with our licensed staff psychologists.

Clinical supervision occurs both on a scheduled and case-focused basis. During the program, psychology inters receive a minimum of one hour per week of regularly scheduled, face-to-face individual supervision for clinical intervention and one hour per week of assessment supervision. Supervision hours may be pro-rated for part-time interns.

In addition, interns receive group supervision through the clinical case seminars embedded into the didactics program, which follow a case conference format where fellows receive input and feedback on treatment cases from licensed therapists and fellow trainees.

Benefits

There is no stipend available for the internship program. Interns are eligible for 20 vacation days, 5 sick days, and time off for six major holidays per year. Interns are provided with access to front desk support, billing support, electronic health records, and on-call supervisor support during working hours. Interns are provided with office space and any other necessary materials required to fulfill their clinical responsibilities. 

Requirements

Interns are required to be matriculated in a clinical, counseling, or school psychology program. Applicants with experience or a proven interest in working with clients throughout the life span including children and teens will be given stronger consideration. Evening and/or weekend hours are required to accommodate working families and school-aged children.

How to apply

Wavelengths Psychology is an equal opportunity employer.

This program is open to psychology graduate students meeting the following criteria:

• Current enrollment in a professional psychology doctoral program in clinical, counseling or school psychology.
• Successful completion of all coursework prior to the start of internship.
• Completion of practicum training in psychotherapy with children or adolescents.
• Completion of coursework in psychological assessment and at least one integrated assessments.
• Approval of their graduate school training director to begin pre-doctoral internship

Completed applications must be received by April 20, 2023.

​Applications must include the following in order to be considered:

1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum vitae
3. Two to four letters of recommendation 
   1. One or two letters from clinical supervisor(s), AND
   2. One or two letters from additional supervisor(s) or professor(s), e.g. dissertation chair/mentor
4. Scanned copy of your official graduate transcript; if selected, must submit final official transcripts before starting internship.

In-person interviews are strongly preferred, but interviews via videoconferencing will be considered on a case-by-case basis for applicants with extraordinary travel limitations. 

Applications should be sent via e-mail to:    
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Delicia Gumbs, Director of Operations             
Wavelengths Psychology PC
[email protected]                             
520 Franklin Ave, Ste L-18C, Garden City, NY 11530 &
4770 Sunrise Highway, Ste. 105, Massapequa Park, NY 11762
Tel: 800-871-5491 x 1