Alumni & Friends of the Program

Our program relies on generous contributions to offer financial support to students throughout their education. Financial support for students is a critical ingredient to our ability to recruit students from diverse backgrounds for whom living in New York City as a full-time student would otherwise be prohibitive.

In addition, donations supplement grants received by the program to fund day-to-day operations  (i.e. a newly launched PhD Program Computer Lab for research and medical records charting) and to ensure that The Psychological Center is a welcoming and equipped community based mental health clinic for our Patients (i.e. bi-annual toy and book drive).

If you wish to make a donation to The Doctoral Program or to The Psychological Center please feel free to reach out to Steve Tuber (re: The Doctoral Program) or Sasha Rudenstine (re: The Psychological Center). All donations are a tax-deductible gift. 

Students in the Clinical Doctoral Program at CCNY are supervised by licensed psychologists, who volunteer one hour per week, as well as Program faculty. While students receive intensive and consistent supervision for the duration of their residency at The Psychological Center, our supervision model has been developed to account for the natural development of therapists-in-training. Students in years 1-2 work with one supervisor (one hour per week) for each patient that they see at The Psychological Center. Students in year 3+ work with one supervisor for every two patients seen at The Psychological Center. Student-supervisor dyads remain for at minimum one year, and two years with regards to child work. 

We are fortunate that many of our alumni remain connected to our Program via supervision. We are also grateful that many other psychologists, otherwise unconnected to our program, volunteer to supervise our students. Work with supervisors is the foundation of our students' development as therapists and we appreciate the range of perspectives and training our supervisors bring to their work with our students. 

If you are interested in supervising for our Program please contact Sasha Rudenstine, Associate Director of The Psychological Center ( mrudenstine@ccny.cuny.edu ).

The CCNY Mentorship Program was established in 2023 as a means of connecting current doctoral students with volunteer alumni mentors. It is intended to offer resources and relationships in a nonevaluative manner extending beyond the clinical supervisory and advisement opportunities of the doctoral program.  Areas of mentorship might include internship applications, research interests, career trajectories, and teaching experienceThere are currently 38 alumni mentors available, all of whom are eager to help students in any way they can. The mentorship list is updated on an annual basis, and mentors can be contacted via email. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please contact the Clinical Program Administrator at clinicalpsychphd@ccny.cuny.edu .

Join our alumni email list by contacting mrudenstine@ccny.cuny.edu . We use this forum to let you know about new developments. You should feel free to post job announcements, etc. or to rekindle friendships with long-lost colleagues. It is our hope that this list-serve will foster a sense of connection and commitment for those who have shared the experience of being trained in the program.