Postdoctoral Positions Available at Madison Park Psychological Services in New York City

The Practice at Madison Park Psychological Services:

MPPS is a thriving group practice that provides high quality of care to high functioning patients who
present with a wide range of issues such as anxiety, depression, adjustment, trauma and relationship
issues. We offer a unique opportunity for clinicians to work in a private practice setting while receiving
tailored supervision and training in Western and Eastern therapeutic approaches.

MPPS offers a family-like, collegial, and intellectually stimulating environment where clinicians and
patients can grow. Our team is very diverse, as our clinicians come from various cultural backgrounds
and specialize in different modalities of therapy. Our goal is to ensure that our patients receive the best
treatments and that our clinicians get the best training to provide high quality of care in a supportive and
culturally rich environment.

MPPS specializes in tailoring treatment to the patient’s needs and personality. We believe that the
success of any therapy stems not only from tailoring the treatment approach to the patient but also from
matching the patient and the therapist’s personalities. We are therefore looking for clinicians with
diverse cultural and clinical backgrounds, who are insightful, warm, and flexible to tailor their treatments
to their patients. 

Training:

Clinicians will conduct individual therapy, and if desired, couple, family, and group therapy with adults
and adolescents. Clinicians will learn to effectively use and integrate various therapeutic modalities of
treatment (psychodynamic, CBT, DBT, ACT, EFT) to achieve the best therapeutic results. MPPS also offers
a combined psychotherapy/psychological assessment track for those interested in gaining further
experience with psychological testing.

Clinicians will receive several hours of individual supervision and attend group supervision/case
conferences. Supervision is tailored to the supervisees needs with the goal of empowering them to find
their own voice and identity as clinicians. Our supervisory approach focuses on our clinicians’ strengths
and helps them become well-rounded clinicians. We help our psychologists develop nuanced case
formulations and translate them into practical interventions. Supervisors encourage trainees to work
actively in the here and now, focus on experience-near interventions and be creative and flexible.
Supervision provides a place for safe exploration of transference and countertransference issues.
Clinicians will feel recognized and supported with the aim of providing individual growth. The quality of
the supervision and training received at MPPS is very unique.

Dr.Saad and Dr. Khadivi facilitate the training seminars and some supervisions. They are both sought
after nationally and internationally by patients for their therapeutic and assessment skills, and by
students for supervision and teaching. Dr. Saad has been named top psychologist in New York each year
for the past 9 years. Dr. Khadivi has been the recipient of multiple teaching awards. He has more than 25
years of clinical and supervisory experience. Both Dr. Saad and Dr. Khadivi are passionate about teaching
the therapeutic skills that have made them successful. Dr. Saad and Dr. Khadivi have trained top
psychologists in the field who will also be your supervisors, allowing for a rich experience.

All graduates from MPPS have established successful individual practices and several have opened group
practices so you might also be applying to our graduates group practices without knowing it. Others have
decided to stay on board with us and take their career to the next level. In addition to expanding on
one’s own therapeutic skills, candidates will learn how to run a private practice- that is, manage fees and
money, billing logs, help patients address health insurance issues, and learn other administrative skills
needed in private practice.

Finally, a unique component of the position at MPPS is the integration of eastern philosophy to
treatment conceptualization. Clinicians will also learn about integrative medicine and eastern
approaches to well-being and learn how to integrate them to treatment. Dr. Saad will introduce you to
principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine and will show you how they can inform your diagnostic and
therapeutic approach to treatment so that patients can achieve deeper and faster therapeutic progress.
You will also experience the power of Qigong (energy movements for self-care). Eastern medicine is a
unique and major contribution to the well-being of patients and clinicians in this group practice.

Benefits:

The benefits package at Madison Park Psychological Services is outstanding. Our mission is to have all
our clinicians live a balanced life and that is only possible with good benefits and flexible, enjoyable work
schedules. For your peace of mind, all positions are salary-based and not fee for service. Salaries
increase throughout the length of the postdoc. There is a base salary that increases every 6 months and
you have the ability to add to this salary after several months in the practice to meet your desired goals.
The salary starts at 50,000 (with the ability to increase one’s salary to $80,000 within one to four
months depending on clinicians skills), and reach $100,000 (with the ability to increase it to $130,000 by
adding 6 more patients) within one year of being licensed.

We also offer health insurance at no cost to you with nationwide coverage and offer you $2500 to pay
for eligible healthcare expenses (such as therapy). Other major benefits include dental and vision health
benefits, 4 weeks of paid vacation, sick days, 401k with matching contributions from the practice so that
you can start saving for retirement.

Your schedule will reflect quality of life, so that you have plenty of time for self-care and hobbies while
accommodating patients who want to be seen in a private practice setting. Please note that most
patients prefer to be seen from 5:00pm to 7:30pm or weekend so take this into consideration. That being
said, all available positions are tailored to the applicant’s needs.

Length of the position:

You will complete all the requirements to be licensed in one year for full-time positions. It takes us 1 to 6
months to build a full-time caseload (depending on your skills) so for patient care, we ask that you
commit to working as a licensed clinical psychologist for another year in the practice. We are looking for
applicants who would like to stay in the practice and become supervisor or director of a track. This is a
unique opportunity to develop your own niche and flourish working in a private group practice setting.

Working Remotely:

MPPS provides psychotherapy 100% virtually. All sessions are done via a secure HIPAA compliant video
portal. We ask our clinicians to be comfortable with telehealth, as this is our main modality of therapy. It
is possible that we will also have in-person sessions one or 2 days a week so we ask that clinicians be
flexible.

Eligibility and Applications:

We request that eligible applicants have completed their doctoral degree before the employment start
date and have prior outpatient experience conducting therapy with adults.

Experience working in college counseling centers is a plus. Having a license is not required.

We are inviting interested applicants to submit their CV to info@madisonparkpsych.com so that we can
give you access to our clinicians portal, which contains videos, testimonials, positions descriptions etc.

To proceed with the application, please review all the material provided on the clinician portal and email
us a psychotherapy case write-up and three letters of reference. We recommend sending us the case
write-up without waiting for the letters of recommendations for us to start reviewing your application.

General inquiries are also welcome via email. We encourage you to express your interest as soon as you
can, even if you are not ready to submit a formal application.