Post-doctoral Fellowship

The CAPS professional staff includes a full-time, 12-month postdoctoral psychologist.  This is a 1-year appointment beginning in July or August.  The posting and interview process for the postdoctoral fellow typically occurs in December and January each year.  The fellow is supervised by the assistant director and receives one hour of weekly individual supervision.  Unlike a full-time professional CAPS clinician whose primary focus is the provision of individual and group therapy, the postdoctoral fellow is expected to develop skills in supervision and outreach, learn about the operations of a university counseling center, and pursue an area of specialty. 

The fellow will provide supervision to one or more predoctoral externs.  The supervision may take the form of individual supervision of one extern, leading the weekly group supervision for all externs, and/or running the weekly cognitive assessment seminar and providing individual supervision on assessment cases. 

Each fellow is required to identify an area of specialty which they will pursue during their year at CAPS.  This may be a specialized clinical and/or outreach focus or an area of administration or supervision.  At the beginning of the fellow’s year, they should meet with the director to identify the area of focus and develop a plan to pursue it throughout the year.

Current Post-Doctoral Fellow 

2024-2025

Sarah Telzak, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Fellow

Previous Post-Doctoral Fellows

2023-2024

Cale Kaminsky, Psy.D.

CAPS Psychotherapist/Training Program Supervisor

2022-2023
Elena Cela, Psy.D., LPC
Clinician in Private Practice (CT)

2021 - 2022
Chandni Kapadia, Psy.D.
Clinician in Private Practice (CT)

2019 – 2021
Kelsea Visalli, Ph.D.
Psychology Resident, Clinical Assistant Professor

2018 – 2019  
VACANT
 
2017 – 2018
Jessica Naecker, Ph.D.
Clinician in Private Practice (CA)
 
2015 – 2017
Joy Zelikovsky, Psy.D.
Director of Eating Disorder Services at Turnbridge (CT)
 
2014 – 2015
Smith Kidkarndee, Psy.D.

Associate Director, University of Hartford's Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology (GIPP)