This unique externship features placement at the Gender and Sexuality Service, which serves transgender and gender-expansive children, teens, and young adults. Externs will have the opportunity to take part in a gender-affirming clinical service through assessment, psychotherapy, and co-leading groups with expert supervision from Child Study Center faculty. Externs will gain both in-person and telehealth clinical experience.

Because transgender and gender-expansive youth also often display mental health vulnerabilities, our externs will also have significant exposure to individuals with anxiety disorders, mood disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other externalizing disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, and other conditions. Our service utilizes evidence-based treatments, primarily cognitive behavioral therapy, to treat these conditions with sensitivity to the unique challenges that transgender and gender-expansive youth experience. Applicants with interest and experience in minority stress, intersecting identities, and systemic inequities affecting transgender youth and their communities are encouraged to apply. The position is open to graduate students enrolled in a doctoral program with a terminal degree of PhD or PsyD.

Assessment: externs will participate in diagnostic evaluations and gender assessments for affirming medical care. They will be expected first to shadow one or more evaluations conducted by an attending and then to be shadowed by an attending. Then they will be able to conduct independent evaluations.

Individual psychotherapy: responsibilities include carrying a caseload of four to six individual therapy cases with children and adolescents presenting with gender dysphoria and other presenting concerns.

Training in, and delivery of, evidence-based treatments: externs will be trained in gender-affirmative care. This includes conducting gender-specific assessments and providing weekly psychotherapy services. To address certain difficulties common in transgender and gender-expansive youth, other evidence-based treatments may be implemented.  

Didactics (seminars, grand rounds): in addition to a year-round didactic training series from the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, externs participate in a weekly didactic that is specific to the Gender and Sexuality Service. A Child Study Center case conference occurs weekly. Additionally, externs attend the department’s weekly grand rounds, which are instructed by renowned experts in mental health.

Group therapy: externs participate as co-therapists or observers or both in group treatments. Our center offers ongoing caregiver and teen support groups that externs can participate in.

Miscellaneous clinical tasks: extern duties will be supplemented with a variety of clinically relevant activities as needed.

To apply, please address your cover letter to Samantha Busa, PsyD and Elizabeth A. Glaeser, PhD. If you have any questions about the Gender and Sexuality Service Externship, please contact Dr. Glaeser at Elizabeth.Glaeser@NYULangone.org.

Additional details regarding this externship offering can be found within the Externship Site Directory for the Northeastern Regional Externship Match. Learn more on our site listing for the 2026–27 training year.