The Dolce Postgraduate Fellowship at Iona University Counseling Center is a full-time appointment with onsite responsibilities from August through June. The fellowship offers comprehensive, supervised clinical training in emerging adult clinical psychology with a focus on neurodivergence. The Dolce Fellowship may be a one or two-year position. The Dolce Fellowship offers recent graduates of Ph.D. or Psy.D. programs in clinical, counseling, or school psychology, or master's programs in Mental Health Counseling, the opportunity to expand the breadth of their clinical skills while earning the necessary supervised hours toward New York State licensure.

The Dolce Fellowship offers extensive experience in direct clinical practice and psychoeducation. The Fellow delivers both long and short-term psychotherapy and conducts intake assessments, walk-in and rapid access triage, consultation, risk assessment, and crisis intervention. Ongoing individual therapy clients are primarily neurodivergent. The Fellow is the instructor of Gael Chat Social Communication, a weekly psychoeducational course for neurodivergent students, which offers an experiential curriculum focused on social skills, communication, and emotional awareness. The Fellow delivers targeted outreach programs to neurodivergent students, advises the Neurodiversity Club, and collaborates with academic support services, Accessibility services, and departments within Student Affairs to create and deliver Fellowship initiatives. The Fellow assists with the development and delivery of faculty and student leader training and takes part in consultation with college faculty and administration related to student mental health concerns. The Fellow is part of the Counseling Center clinical team and participates in Division of Enrollment Management & Student Affairs events and meetings as assigned.

The Fellow receives intensive individual and group supervision and participates in weekly didactic seminars. During the second year, the Fellow has the option of providing secondary clinical supervision.

Responsibilities:

To provide direct clinical services including individual psychotherapy to neurodivergent and other assigned student clients, group psychotherapy, crisis intervention, consultation and referral, walk-in and triage, and risk assessment. To serve as instructor of Gael Chat: Social Communications, including all aspects of course creation, development, delivery, management, and evaluation. To develop and deliver targeted psychoeducational programs, including groups, workshops, and community-building events, to neurodivergent students; to serve as Advisor to the Neurodiversity Club; to create psychoeducational materials and content pertaining to neurodivergence and other assigned topics. To provide neurodiversity-focused training, didactic seminars, workshops, and case consultation within the Center and to outside constituents (faculty, staff, student leaders, etc.) as assigned; to develop fellowship initiatives into scholarly presentations suitable for submission to professional conferences. To document all professional activities in clinical notes and other Center documents in a clear and timely fashion; to contribute to policy and reporting documents as assigned; to participate in University and Divisional events and meetings as assigned.