Sanford Behavioral Health Clinic-Thief River Falls (SBHC-TRF)

* Please note that this residency site has two (2) resident slots available for the 2025-2026 cohort.
**This site has two (2) remaining resident slots available for the 2025-2026 cohort. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

The primary clinical responsibilities are:

• Providing consultation and treatment in a psychiatric hospital setting.
• Diagnostic assessments, treatment planning, and ongoing treatment in the clinic setting.
• Conducting testing and assessments in the outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Providing didactic trainings to the inpatient nursing group and potentially community-based organizations.

Potential interest areas that could be observed are: court-appointed examiners civil commitment assessments, pre-employment interviews for law enforcement candidates, interviews and assessments for establishing mental state at the time of an alleged crime, interviews and assessments for establishing someone’s ability to assist in their defense in court and to determine if there are mental health concerns that prevent them from participating in the court process, capacity to parent assessments, interacting with the mobile crisis team and the plans that are developed by the crisis team member, spending time observing and interacting with mental health providers at a medical clinic, and providing consultation work in the emergency department setting as well as the medical surgical setting.

Additional areas of focus could be: play therapy and/or EMDR.

Sample Schedule

*One Thursday per month is for didactics with the cohort.

Site Supervisor: Trent Barstad, Ph.D., LP