Clinical Training

Train with CAPS

IU Indianapolis Counseling and Psychological Services provides clinical training experiences for graduate students at the master's and doctoral levels. These students are enrolled in academic programs that lead to licensure as mental health care providers. Graduate students provide direct services to CAPS clients and the IU Indianapolis community, including group and individual counseling, assessment, and outreach presentations.

Students completing practicum and master’s internship experiences are typically from programs across the state of Indiana. Psychology interns are from programs throughout the country. All counselors in training are supervised closely by professional staff members who are licensed mental health practitioners.

Doctoral internships

We strive to provide a comprehensive, diverse learning experience for interns. Although we’ve had interns since 2005, the program has changed substantially in order to prepare students to become competent clinicians in Health Service Psychology. Please note that CAPS will not be recruiting doctoral interns for the 2024-25 training year.

Explore our internship opportunity

Practicum training

We offer an advanced practicum or master's internship experience for a select cohort of students each year. Students enrolled in accredited doctoral or master's level academic programs that lead to licensure as a mental health clinician (e.g., LMHC, LCSW, HSPP) are eligible to apply. Our training emphasizes individual and group counseling, including initial assessment of clinical concerns.

Learn more about practicum training

Accreditation status

We are pleased to announce that IU Indianapolis CAPS has been granted current status of“Full Accreditation”from APA.

The IU Indianapolis CAPS internship program is a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC). We participate in and adhere to the APPIC Match process and policies. We agree to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any intern applicant. Our National Computer Match Program Code number is 197811.

Questions related to the program’s accreditation status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:

Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1^st Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002

Phone: 202-336-5979
Email: apaaccred@apa.org
Web: www.apa.org/ed/accreditation

Student population and clinical concerns

The clinical experiences at IU Indianapolis CAPS include opportunities to work with clients ranging in age from 18 to 50+ from a wide variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, including international students. The most prevalent diagnoses of treatment are depression and anxiety. Opportunities to work with individuals presenting with learning and social concerns, PTSD, bipolar disorder, relationship problems, and adjustment issues are also available.

IU Indianapolis is well-known for the diversity of its student body, and this diversity is also reflected in the students who utilize CAPS’ services.

	IU Indianapolis campus 2022-23	IU Indianapolis CAPS 2022-23
Female	61%	60.8%
Male	39%	29.6%
Nonbinary	--	5%
Trans	--	2%
Asian	7%	6%
Black/African American	9%	12%
Hispanic/Latino	11%	9%
Two or more races	5%	6%
International student	6%	8%
White	60%	57%
American Indian/Alaska Native	0.10%	0%
Freshman	17%	22%
Sophomore	13%	18%
Junior	15%	18%
Senior	23%	15%
Graduate	17%	26%
Nondegree	2%	0%

Ensuring our students have a great experience with our team is our top priority. Each student has an opportunity to complete surveys and assessments about their experiences, and some of their sentiments are captured below.

	% agreement
Treatment by counselor was courteous	95%
Appropriate level of concern	89%
Feel comfortable by counselor	87%
Well-trained and skilled in helping with my concerns	88%
Visit was useful	85%
I will return to CAPS	87%
I would recommend CAPS to others	89%
I am satisfied with services received	87%

Meet the CAPS staff

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