The San Diego Psychological Association

09/23/2025

SDPA 2025 Fall Conference
Navigating the Psychological Fallout of War & Conflict
APA 15 CE Credits
October 3rd & 4th, 2025

Register today!!
https://sdpsych.org/event-6244097

San Diego is home to war refugees, veterans, service members, immigrants, and border patrol agents. People are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and terrified by the geopolitical climate. Together, health and mental health providers will prepare for the psychological fallout of war and conflict.

Naming the Uncertainty: Psychological and Nutritional Pathways to Resilience, Jaz Robbins, PsyD, BCHN

10/17/2022

🚨 Job alert Monday!

Father Joe’s Villages seeks a Licensed Clinical Psychologist to oversee the clinical and wrap-around services for unhoused children, adults, and families at its Therapeutic Childcare (TC) Program.

Responsibilities:

🔹As the Clinical Supervisor of TC, the Licensed Clinical Psychologist, provides therapeutic recommendations to TC employees for implementation in the classroom and serves as the subject-matter consultant for the TC team.
🔹Facilitates the internships of students and their caseloads.
🔹Provides direct clinical services including testing, psychotherapy, and psychoeducation to children of all ages, with a focus on child development.
🔹Uses expertise to deliver mental and behavioral health services to clients with mental health, behavioral challenges, and/or trauma histories, engaging those that are resistant to therapeutic services.
🔹Maintains a caseload of individual, group, couples, and family therapy clients, assessing, diagnosing, and developing treatment plans as needed.
🔹Provides or oversees parenting classes.
🔹Provides classroom observations.
🔹Provides agency-wide professional development in areas of mandated reporting, trauma-informed care, and other clinical areas.
🔹Facilitates students’ internships with partner universities. Oversees training; assigns tasks and monitors performance; provides feedback on interns’ evaluations.
🔹Partners with Father Joe’s Villages’ Behavioral Health clinic to facilitate clients’ service delivery; participate in peer meetings, attend trainings, and maintain licensing and credentialing.

➡️ To apply please email at Nancy.Restrepo-Wilson@neighbor.org

➡️ More psychology jobs - LINK IN BIO

10/06/2022

🌸 Come get to know the Women’s Wellness Committee.

📍 Join us on October 12, 2022 at 5:00 PM at New English Brewing - San Diego Brewery New English Brewing

➡️ All are welcome, but please register so we can get a headcount for this event - LINK IN BIOw


🔸The Women’s Wellness committee provides a community for those interested in advancing the psychological well-being of women.

🔸Our group is inclusive of all people for whom feminist issues are core to their professional identity.

🔸We recognize that factors including ethnicity, culture, language, socioeconomic status, age, ability and sexual orientation impact the diversity of women’s experiences.

🔸We are committed to empowering women and addressing the social justice issues which impact them. We focus on helping women claim their unique identities and build on their personal strengths.

10/06/2022

✨ Everyone is invited to join us for a Live Webinar on Building Resilience in Youth Through Sport on Monday, November 7th at 7 PM - Registration LINK IN BIO

⚽️This webinar is presented by the SDPA Sport Psychology Committee and the Intellectual Athlete (IA) .

🏸 IA is a proactive mental fitness company, fusing sport, play and elite athlete mental skills packaged for the everyday kid, will present their school-based "Play Built Resilience" curriculum.

🏀IA offers children a foundational skill set similar to what elite athletes use at the height of competition, through play. These skills (breathwork, imagery, positive self-talk, mindfulness, focus) give students a competitive edge on the playing field, in the classroom, and can be used to combat stress in everyday life. Using a physiological, not clinical approach, they tap into the therapeutic core of sport and play to help young people practice these skills and experience their benefit first-hand. The IA team believes that Resilience needs to be experienced.

🏈 Meet our presenters:

🔹Sean Tuohey is the founder of Intellectual Athlete. He has been working to discover the highest and best use of play since 2000. A former college basketball player, Sean has been involved in sports-based youth development for the past 20 years. In founding Intellectual Athlete, Sean aspires to deliver mental health as an advantage skill set through play.

🔹Alecsander Wortman is a former Division 1 Track and Field pole vaulter and current performance psychology Master's candidate pursuing a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) certification. He has 5+ years of youth coaching and instructing experience and a passion for mental preparation, breath work, and mindfulness.

🔹Katherine Zhukova is an Oxford graduate and a licensed family medicine physician in the UK who oversees Monitoring & Evaluation at Intellectual Athlete. She believes positive youth experiences in the form of play in concert with coached healthy coping strategies will enhance kids’ mental performance allowing for increased capacity to manage stress at home, in school, and in the world.

08/02/2022

07/26/2022

‼️We are moving!

👉 Please follow our new SDPA FB page https://www.facebook.com/sdpsychologicalassociation

SDPA is a chapter of psychologists, students/post-docs, professionals, & friends committed to promoting psychology and serving mental health needs.

For Crisis Intervention call the County Access and Crisis Line at 1-888-724-7240

07/26/2022

🚨 Job alert Monday!

🔹SDPA member Dr. Karen Hyland, a co-owner of the Hillcrest Psychological Associates seeks a licensed psychologist to work in-person at the San Diego or La Jolla location as an independent contractor in a private practice setting.

🔹Hillcrest Psychological Associates Is a social justice-oriented, women-owned, egalitarian run company with work-life balance at the forefront of all of our decisions.

🔹The practice serves primarily college students, graduate students, professionals, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and clients with trauma. You do all the things you love (therapy) and we do all the things you hate (billing, paneling, marketing).

🔹This is a low-pressure position.
🔹5-25 clients per week.
🔹We are also looking for people who want to work one or two evenings a week after their full-time job for extra income.
🔹Licensed Psychologists are invited to apply. $75-115 per clinical hour.

👉🏻 If interested, send your resume to drkaren@hillcrestpsych.com

➡️ For more jobs - CLICK THE LINK IN BIO

07/22/2022

07/21/2022

07/18/2022

‼️New Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements will take effect on January 1, 2023.

➡️ These new requirements will replace our current Continuing Education (CE) requirements and will create new categories of activities that can be used to accrue required CE credits. The CPD requirements have been in development for many years and were officially adopted last week. 



2023 will be a transitional year. If your license will be renewed in 2023, you can use either the current CE requirements OR the new CPD requirements. Starting January 1, 2024, everyone renewing their license must meet the CPD requirements.

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐏𝐃 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:

✅ 36 hours of CDP “learning activities” are required for each 2-year renewal period.
✅ CPD broadens the type of “learning activities” that provide credit beyond traditional CE to include these 4 categories: Professional Activities, Academic, Sponsored CE, and Board Certification.
✅ Activities from at least 2 of these 4 categories are required in each renewal period (except for ABPP Board Certification).
✅There is a maximum # of hours allowed for each learning activity (e.g., 27 hours of traditional “sponsored” CE).
✅ For each learning activity, the regulations include a definition, a description of the required documentation, and the maximum # of hours.
✅ 4 hours of CPD on Laws and Ethics and 4 hours of CPD on Cultural Diversity and/or Social Justice are required for each renewal period.
✅ You cannot accrue hours for any learning activity other than traditional CE prior to January 1, 2023.

🔜 CPA will be providing additional information and presentations on this topic soon. Stay tuned for an announcement of a webinar next month. In addition, I will address the new CPD requirements at the Pre-Convention Ethics Institute on September 22, 2022.



➡️ For more details, please see the Board of Psychology’s Regulatory Advisory which contains links to the full text of the new regulations.

Elizabeth Winkelman, JD, PhD

Director of Professional Affairs | California Psychological Association