Courses and Certificate Programs
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Practical, self-paced learning for psychology trainees and early-career clinicians navigating critical transitions.
Introduction
Some transitions in a psychology career are sink-or-swim. Internship. Early career. Launching a practice. Everyone assumes you’ll figure it out—but no one teaches you how.
These programs fill that gap. Built on decades of experience training and supervising clinicians, they give you the practical guidance that’s usually learned the hard way.
Coming Summer 2026
LaunchPoint: The Complete Internship Success Certificate
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Navigate internship successfully—thriving not just surviving. From expectations to feedback to building your professional identity.
What's covered:
Internship landscape • Rights & responsibilities • Managing transitions • Supervisor relationships • Feedback & evaluation • Professional identity • Postdoc & licensure prep
Coming Early 2028
LaunchPoint: Creating and Financing Your Private Practice Â
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Step-by-step practical guidance to launch your practice with confidence—from business basics to solo practice to scaling to group practice.
What's covered:
Business & legal basics • Licensing & credentialing • Fees & caseload planning • Referral networks • Ethical marketing • Systems & workflows • Scaling for growth
LaunchPoint: The Complete Internship Success Certificate
Summer 2026
The transition from practicum to internship is one of the hardest in clinical training. The expectations are different. The pace is different. The stakes are different.
This program helps you navigate internship successfully—not just survive it, but thrive.
What’s Covered: Understanding the internship landscape and expectations - Knowing your rights and responsibilities as an intern - Managing the transition from student to professional - Building relationships with supervisors and colleagues - Navigating feedback, evaluation, and difficult conversations - Developing your professional identity - Preparing for what’s next: postdoc, early career, and licensure
Format: Self-paced online course with practical exercises and resources.
Price:Â Coming June 2026
Institutional Licenses: Training programs can purchase access for entire intern cohorts. Contact us for institutional pricing.
Meet the Course Creators
Dr. Cara Murphy
A licensed clinical psychologist with nearly 20 years of experience in program development and mental health administration, she is deeply committed to training and clinical supervision. As Training Director, she emphasizes transparency, empathy, and gratitude in her leadership. Her supervisory approach is developmentally attuned and grounded in a servant leadership model, with a focus on empowering supervisees, fostering professional growth, and supporting the development of confident, ethical clinicians. Her current professional interests include clinical supervision, private practice, and trauma-informed care for clients across the lifespan.
LaunchPoint: Creating and Financing
Your Private Practice
Coming Early 2028
Launching a private practice is exciting—and overwhelming. Licensure, business structure, insurance panels, marketing, finances, systems. Most clinicians figure it out through trial and error.
This program gives you the step-by-step practical guidance to launch your practice with confidence.
What’s Covered: Business structure and legal basics - Licensing, credentialing, and insurance panels - Setting fees and getting paid - Calculating your caseload and income goals - Building a referral network - Ethical marketing that actually works - Systems and workflows for solo practice - Avoiding common early mistakes - When and how to scale to a group practice
Format: Self-paced online course with templates, checklists, and real-world examples.
Price:Â Coming Fall 2027
Why These Programs?
These transitions—internship, early career, launching a practice—are often sink-or-swim. Academic programs and clinical training don’t teach you the practical realities: how to navigate supervision relationships, understand your rights, make business decisions, or build a sustainable career.
Most clinicians learn through trial and error, absorbing practices from training sites and early jobs without knowing whether they’re ethical, legal, or effective.
We’ve spent decades training, supervising, and launching practices ourselves. These programs distill what we’ve learned into practical guidance you can use immediately.
No fluff. No theory for theory’s sake. Just what you need to navigate these transitions successfully.
