Practicum & Supervised Training Opportunities at Trinity Tree

Trinity Tree Psychological Services offers a structured practicum training experience for doctoral students in clinical or counseling psychology. Our practicum is rooted in compassion, evidence-based practice, and close clinical supervision — providing students with meaningful hands-on experience in a warm, multidisciplinary outpatient setting.

Practicum students train directly at our Glendale, Arizona outpatient clinic under the supervision of licensed psychologists. Training is competency-based and developmentally sequenced, meaning your level of clinical responsibility grows alongside your skills and confidence.

Practicum students at Trinity Tree gain experience in three core areas:

Students participate in structured intake interviews and psychodiagnostic evaluations across a range of presenting concerns. You will gain hands-on experience administering and interpreting standardized assessment tools, integrating findings, and contributing to comprehensive psychological reports. Assessment instruments include:

• WAIS-5 — Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

• WISC-5 — Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

• WPPSI-IV — Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence

• WMS-5 — Wechsler Memory Scale, Fifth Edition

• WIAT-4 — Wechsler Individual Achievement Test

• ADOS-2 — Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule

• CARS-2 — Childhood Autism Rating Scale

• Beery VMI — Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration

• Rey-15 — Rey 15-Item Memory Test

• C-TONI-2 — Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence

• TRAILS A & B — Trail Making Test, Parts A & B

• Trauma and suicide risk assessment measures

• Conners 4 — Conners, Fourth Edition

• VABS-3 — Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Third Edition

• Structured and semi-structured diagnostic interviews

Students conduct initial clinical interviews to gather relevant history, identify presenting concerns, and inform treatment planning. This experience builds foundational skills in differential diagnosis, clinical interviewing, and case conceptualization.

Students provide short-term, evidence-based individual therapy under close supervision, working with children, adolescents, and adults across a variety of clinical presentations.

All practicum students receive individual supervision from a licensed psychologist. Supervisors retain full legal and clinical responsibility for all services provided. You will never work without direct access to your supervisor.

Our clients include children, adolescents, and adults presenting with a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and developmental concerns — giving you broad and diverse clinical exposure within a single training site.

For inquiries about practicum training opportunities, please reach out to us directly.

General inquiries: info@trinitytreepsych.com

Training Director: drshelton@trinitytreepsych.com

Phone: (623) 444-5508

Address: 5422 W. Thunderbird Rd. #5, Glendale, AZ 85306

Website: www.trinitytreepsych.com