Trainee psychologist — trainee or internship, anywhere in Pakistan
The hardest year in this profession in Pakistan is the one straight after the degree, when nobody will give you hours because you have no hours.
Why we are open to this role
The hardest year in this profession in Pakistan is the one straight after the degree, when nobody will give you hours because you have no hours. We would rather be part of the answer to that than complain about the shortage of experienced clinicians at the other end of it. This route is deliberately open to somebody with no post-qualification experience at all — and deliberately conditional on supervision we can verify.
What the work is
- A small, supervised caseload. Small on purpose.
- Intake and assessment work alongside a supervising clinician.
- Supervision you attend, not supervision you name on a form.
What we ask for
- Your enrolment or your degree.
- A named supervisor and their contact details, which we will use.
- The judgement to escalate early. On this route that is the whole job.
Qualification: Enrolled on, or recently finished, an MSc, MS or MPhil in psychology. You must be 18 or over.
The arrangement, the same for every role here. You are self-employed. You set your own fee, and there is no charge to be listed. The patient pays you directly and in full — nothing is deducted and nothing is held by us. For a session we introduced, 5% of that fee comes back to us afterwards, towards the video rooms, the booking system and the running costs; this is a charity project and patients are never charged for anything. You keep your own patients, and nothing is owed on work that did not come through us. Your phone number and your address are never published: enquiries reach you through us. You decide your own hours and how many people you take. We check your qualifications, and your registration where your profession has a register, before anybody is approved — nobody is listed on their own word. We do not supervise your clinical practice and we do not carry your indemnity.
Applying takes about ten minutes and puts you in front of a human, not a filter. We check registration numbers against the council register before replying, so allow a few days. You can see and change your application any time at depression.pk/application.
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