OSU Counseling & Psychological Services adheres to all APPIC guidelines and we participate in APPIC Match for selecting our interns.

After the application deadline of Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 11:59 p.m. EST, our selection committee will review all completed applications. We will then contact all applicants we consider for interviews by email to schedule a standardized, 45-to-60 minute Zoom or telephone interview to be held between December 4 and 15, 2023. We do not offer on-site interviews. All of our interviews are conducted by Zoom, but phone interviews can be conducted upon request. Candidates who are no longer being considered for interviews will be notified by e-mail no later than December 4, 2023.

Two members of the CAPS staff will be present for each interview. Prior to the interviews, we email a vignette to the applicants. During the interview, applicants are asked general questions regarding their training and work experience as well as vignette-specific questions. Applicants are invited to attend one of two "interns-only" meetings to explore the internship experience at CAPS. This is an optional meeting and will be held via Zoom. The dates of these meetings will be determined at a later date. When we contact candidates to schedule an interview, we will notify them about the dates, and provide a Zoom link to these "interns-only" meetings so that applicants can self-select which meeting to attend. We encourage our applicants to contact the Director of Training to ask questions at any time during the application process. The Director of Training would be glad to answer questions from the applicants and have them connected if indicated, with our current or former interns to assist an applicant to gain further insight into our training program.

Following the Zoom or telephone interviews, we will rank order the remaining candidates and submit their names to National Matching Services. The Director of Training will send letters confirming the Match results to matched applicants and their academic program directors according to the APPIC Match Policies. If necessary, this site will also participate in Phase II of the match process. 

University regulations require that if you are matched with our site the university will conduct a criminal background check at no cost to you.  While service is contingent on the successful completion of a background check, a criminal conviction is not an automatic bar to service at Counseling & Psychological Services. 

If you are applying for the internship and have been a client here at CAPS, please notify the Director of Training. You will not be asked to disclose any information about your treatment other than which CAPS clinician(s) you have seen. The purpose of this conversation is to help us mitigate any negative consequences from potential multiple relationships.

This internship site agrees 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.

Equal Opportunity is the opportunity to gain entry to, participate in, and benefit from employment, services, programs, activities, and privileges of the institution regardless of race, national origin, sex, ability, or other protected status.  OSU's commitment also includes a moral obligation to address the needs of groups historically underrepresented in the institution and those that have faced barriers to equal opportunity, such as discrimination or discriminatory harassment on the basis of protected status.