Careers

If you are a doctoral-level licensed psychologist or license eligible in Massachusetts and are interested in joining our team, please contact us!

Current Openings: We are currently hiring psychologists for both our Cambridge and Salem locations. 

Postdoctoral Program

Kendall Psychological Associates is a group of highly trained, doctoral-level licensed psychologists and prescribers. Founded in 2012 by Ethan Seidman, Ph.D., Kendall Psychological Associates seeks to provide effective psychotherapy of the highest quality with warmth and professionalism. Each therapist brings their own clinical interests, personal style and preferred treatment modality to meet the specific needs of their clients with cultural awareness and humility. As a team, we represent a range of theoretical orientations and training specializations. While we vary in approach and emphasis, each therapist brings a deep commitment to the science and art of psychotherapy.

Our flagship office is located in the heart of Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. Our facilities are well appointed and foster privacy and comfort for our patients. We have two floors of a conveniently situated building that fits right in with the feel of this historic and urban neighborhood. This practice has about  20 offices while also including several virtual-only clinicians.

Nestled in Downtown Salem, MA, our Salem clinical office is the first offshoot from the original practice. The Salem clinic is a tight-knit group of clinicians who work with children, adolescents, families and adult individual patients. Within our Salem practice, we also provide neuropsychological assessments to the community as well as medication consultation. We enjoy weekly consultation meetings as a way to support each other and gain insight into our tougher cases.

We provide psychotherapy to help people spark the innate capacity for healing and growth that is within all of us. Our style is warm, attentive, and interactive, with the goal of helping you deepen your self-understanding, break out of hurtful patterns, and develop new modes of thinking, feeling, and relating to others.

Psychotherapy

Among the types of therapy our clinicians provide:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Narrative Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), among others.   We offer both in person and telehealth therapy sessions for individuals, couples and families.

Workshops, Seminars and Support Groups

Additionally, some therapists chose to create and run psychoeducational groups and workshops to meet needs in the community. These groups are designed to support patients with issues such as parenting, insomnia, body image concerns, and others. Kendall Psychological Associates also provides onsite psychological services to corporations and institutions, including talks on specific topics, trainings, workshops, and support groups, and individual psychotherapy.

Medication Consultation

Sometimes, but certainly not always, medications are a useful adjunctive to psychotherapy. When that is the case and our clients are interested, we have psychiatrists and nurse practitioners on staff to consult, answer questions, and write prescriptions as needed.

Neuropsychological Assessments

Evaluations are available at KPA to address a variety of referral questions. All assessments include results and recommendations which will provide helpful information for the treatment providers, schools, organizations, and medical professionals working with the patient. Additionally, the Autism evaluations meet Massachusetts DDS criteria for eligibility review. We are in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield and we do accept insurance coverage from BCBS for testing services, as well as self-pay options. If your insurance is not BCBS but you have out-of-network coverage some percentage of the cost may be covered. Evaluations include a full report of results and letters or other communication with doctors, psychiatrists, schools and universities. In-person advocacy services are available but are not included in the original cost of the evaluation.

KPA offers full-time, 12-month post-doctoral Fellowships in clinical psychology. The post-doctoral fellowship is not currently APPIC approved but meets all APA and MA Registration of Psychologists requirements. Psychology fellows develop specialized skills that are essential for post-licensure professional functioning, including clinical skills, presentation skills, consultation, and practical skills for operating in a private practice setting.

This fellowship program is available to candidates who would either like to work fully in person or would prefer a spectrum of virtual work and attendance. The fellow would be able to decide along with the program directors the amount of time they would like to work and attend program responsibilities remotely. There will be approximately one day per month where the fellows will be required to attend in person to foster community and provide access to professional relationship building.

Mission
The mission of the Psychology Postdoctoral Training Program at KPA is to build upon foundational training by providing specialized clinical experiences toward the purpose of preparing post-doctoral fellows to be ethical, and clinically and culturally aware  competent licensed psychologists and leaders, who have a comprehensive understanding of how to meet the needs of patients in the communities we serve. As our staff reflect a diversity of expertise, specialties, modalities, and interests, we have the ability to offer a training program that provides fellows with a variety of opportunities to develop further tailored to their areas of interest. 

Goal 1: To provide post-doctoral fellows with an intensive, practice-oriented year that will further prepare them to function effectively and increasingly independently post-licensure.

Goal 2: To introduce fellows to the private practice setting.

Goal 3: To help promote early-career professionals who are critical thinkers, with a quality improvement mindset, who can deliver psychological services in a flexible, self-aware, ethical, culturally sensitive, and time-effective manner.

Objective 1: To prepare fellows to perform competent, comprehensive, client-centered clinical assessments of patients with complex needs.

Objective 2: To further support and strengthen a fellow’s skills in conceptualization, treatment planning, psychotherapy and other intervention

Objective 3: To help fellows consider local community services and psychological literature in planning and recommending treatment interventions.

Objective 4: To help fellows further enhance the process of self-assessment and sensitivity to individual and cultural differences.

Objective 5: To prepare fellows to function as leaders within their professional settings, and to practice within ethical and legal guidelines.

Objective 6: To assist in the nurturing of the ongoing development of professional identity.

Cultural and Individual Differences
Kendall Psychological Associates recognizes the urgent need for diversity, equity, and inclusion in mental-health treatment, and we are invested in recognizing and honoring the diversity among both our clinicians and clients to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We do this by promoting cultural humility and culturally affirming practices, and by paying ongoing attention to the impacts of marginalization and social injustice on people’s emotional and psychological wellbeing. We work together as clinicians to facilitate space for discussion on matters related to diversity, social justice, and inclusion. As mental-health providers, we humbly seek to better understand our clients' experiences of racial injustice, gender and sexuality injustice, oppressive biases related to ethnic identity, ableism, and others, and the inter-relatedness of them all, in order to better serve them.

The training year commences early September of each year and typically concludes at the end of August of the following year. As full- time professional employees, fellows are expected to work a minimum of 35 hours per week, with 18 of those being direct clinical hours. The training program is designed to allow fellows to function with increasing independence as the training year progresses, as most fellows will seek licensure following completion of the fellowship, while providing supervision throughout.

Fellows will be expected to build up to a caseload of at least 18 clinical therapy hours per week. Fellows can expect to take one hour per day for lunch and paperwork/administrative activities.

Supervision
Each fellow receives a minimum of 1 hour of individual supervision weekly from their primary supervisor, as well as a minimum of 1 hour of weekly individual supervision with additional supervisors, to address clinical and assessment activities. Although fellows are expected to enter the training experience with strong foundational skills, the training offers certain specialized training experiences (e.g., child/adolescent, treatment, testing and assessment, eating disorder treatment, EMDR). As such, fellows may “shadow” supervisors initially on various clinical activities and supervisors may complete certain activities in conjunction with fellows, until a fellow feels comfortable and is ready to work independently. Supervisors maintain full responsibility for each fellow’s work.

Group Supervision
Fellows will have one-hour weekly peer consultation sessions facilitated by a KPA staff member. These will be held on Thursdays at 12 pm. Fellows and staff members will present cases to the group for consultation and discussion purposes.

KPA Consultation Sessions
Fellows will attend consultation meetings on Tuesdays at 12pm and once monthly practice-wide case consultation  meetings on Mondays at 12 pm. Fellows will also have the opportunity to attend the eating disorder consultation group, the LGBTQ+ consultation group, and racial diversity consultation group once a month. KPA also offers fellows the opportunity to attend a weekly peer consultation group with other psychologists. Fellows will attend virtually or in person. Fellows and staff members will present cases to the group for consultation and discussion purposes.

Seminars
A variety of didactic sessions will be presented twice a month for a two-hour period. Presentations will cover topics such as professionalism, ethics, building a private practice, ACT, ER/P, EMDR. Substance abuse treatment, DBT, cultural and linguistic considerations in therapy and other pertinent topics. Fellows will be asked to research and present a one hour lecture for the group in the final months of the fellowship.

Training Supervisors
Psychology training supervisors at KPA offer expertise in an array of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, and come from a range of backgrounds, including academia, hospitals, agencies and school programs. All are licensed in the state of MA. All supervisors work closely to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate the progress of fellows in attaining required competencies and in the continuous quality improvement of the training program.

During the initial few weeks of the training program, fellows are provided with information about the benefits and supports available to them as fellows.

Postdoctoral Fellows will be compensated $70,000 for a full year of work. This includes two weeks of paid vacation and three sick/personal days, and two professional development days. Fellows will have the option to join in to the KPA BCBS health insurance plan.

Physical Resources
Fellows will have access to an office space that is furnished and decorated. They will be given access to all technology and software needed to perform their duties.  

Application Process
Letters of interest will be accepted on a rolling admissions basis from January to March of each year, until all available positions are filled.

Interested individuals should first submit the following to the Directors of Training, Dr. Phoebe Wan at dr.wan@kendallpsychassociates.com and Dr. Ashley Ausikaitis at dr.ausikaitis@kendallpsychassociates.com.

• A cover letter highlighting training background & particular interests in KPA’s training program

• Curriculum Vitae

The Cover Letter & CV will be reviewed and, if an applicant is determined to have interests/experiences that are a possible appropriate fit with KPA training goals, the Directors of Training will contact the applicant for a brief phone screener and subsequently request a full application. The full application consists of:

• Copy of Graduate School Transcript (unofficial copy is acceptable)

• 3 Letters of Recommendation

• 2 Writing Samples with identifiers removed (e.g., treatment plan, evaluation report, case summary, research summary)

Upon review of a completed application packet, face-to-face interviews will then be scheduled. Candidates will be contacted via email with some possible interview dates.

Interested in applying?

Letters of interest will be accepted on a rolling admissions basis from January to March of each year, until all available positions are filled. Interested individuals should submit a cover letter and CV to Dr. Phoebe Wan at dr.wan@kendallpsychassociates.com and Dr. Ashley Ausikaitis at dr.ausikaitis@kendallpsychassociates.com.