2025 National Register Internship Scholarships: Northeastern & Mid-Atlantic US
The National Register Internship Travel Scholarships provide financial support to students enrolled in psychology doctoral programs to help them physically relocate from the location of their graduate program to their selected predoctoral internship site.
We are thrilled to have our 2025 recipients relocating across the country, and look forward to witnessing the widespread impact of their work through APF’s support! Explore below to learn more about our remarkable scholarship recipients who are relocating to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States for their internships.
Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States
Sarah Grace Frary (she/they)
The University of South Carolina
Internship Site: VA Maine Predoctoral Internship Program
“The internship site I was fortunate to match with had everything I had wanted in my clinical training – but the distance posed a significant financial barrier, made more challenging by disruptions to my research funding. This support has made it easier for me to prepare for a 1000+ mile journey, transition to a new community, and prepare to learn new culturally-responsive and meaningful psychotherapeutic work. This will prepare me well for a career as a clinical-community psychologist, mental health clinician, and a program evaluator.”
Jill Laquidara (she/her)
Case Western Reserve University
Internship Site: The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Clinical Psychology Internship
“I am so grateful to the Internship Travel Scholarship, because it will reduce the burden that comes with moving myself and my family to Rhode Island for internship. The funding will allow me to focus my time and energy on preparing to start internship!”
Summer Hadla
The Wright Institute
Internship Site: Forensic Track at UMass Chan Medical Hospital/Worcester Recovery Center
“This funding will allow me to pursue specialized training in forensic psychology without added financial stress, bringing me one step closer to serving marginalized and justice-involved communities with care and intention.”
Nicole Shumaker (she/her)
Sam Houston State University
Internship Site: University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School/Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital Internship in Clinical Psychology
“Preparing for a cross-country move has made it difficult to fully embrace the excitement of matching for internship. Receiving this scholarship will help ease the financial strain and allows me to better focus on making the most of this formative year of clinical training.”
Kiran Kaur (she/her)
University of Utah
Internship Site: Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
“Receiving the National Register/APF Internship Travel Scholarship helps relieve the financial burden of relocating cross-country for internship and reaffirms my commitment to advancing equitable, evidence-based mental health care. As I begin this next chapter of training, this support strengthens my resolve to serve diverse communities and to continue growing as a culturally responsive health service psychologist.”
Amelia Dev (she/her)
University of Miami
Internship Site: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Internship in Clinical Psychology
“The National Register Internship Travel Scholarship will provide crucial financial support to help with my move to the Boston area for internship. It’s great to have flexible scholarship funding that can be applied to all sorts of moving-related costs – especially given how expensive it can be to move! I am so grateful to the National Register for providing this generous support!”
Casey Lee (she/her)
Duquesne University
Internship Site: Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Mental Health Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
“Thank you National Register of Health Service Psychologists for this internship travel scholarship! As a first-generation and international graduate student, I deeply believe in the difference that psychology can make to society, particularly to those most in need of help but with no means to access it. With this scholarship, I aspire to the training and supervision necessary for me to contribute back to those who are underserved.”
Manuel Abreu González (he/him)
Albizu University San Juan Campus
Internship Site: Behavioral Health Network Multicultural Psychology Internship Program
“Puerto Rico es una nación, un país con sueños más grandes que su geografía.”
“Puerto Rico is a nation, a country with dreams bigger than its geography.”
-Elsa Tió
Sue Ann Perez (she/her)
Albizu University
Internship Site: Rochester Psychology Internship Consortium – Rochester Institute of Technology
“Receiving this funding will significantly ease the financial challenges of relocating for my internship at RIT. It will allow me to focus fully on delivering high-quality care, deepening my clinical expertise, and engaging with the community—important steps toward building a meaningful and sustainable career in psychology.”
Antoinette Donofrio (she/her)
Point Park University
Internship Site: SUNY Upstate Medical University – Child Track
“This funding alleviates some financial uncertainty so I can be fully present with the children and families I’ll serve on internship.”
Annika Duquet (she/her)
University of San Francisco
Internship Site: Astor Services – The Bronx Location
“I’m deeply committed to helping others and growing as a psychotherapist.”
Nicole Pacateque (she/her)
University of South Florida
Internship Site: The School at Columbia University
“As a first-generation doctoral student, this scholarship helps ease the transition from Tampa to Manhattan for my APA internship. This support not only reduces financial stress but also allows me to gain invaluable experiences that are pivotal for my career goals. Being in New York brings me closer to the Puerto Rican community I am so inspired to serve, which will strengthen my ability to provide culturally sustaining mental health services.”
Dalles Pith (they/them)
Pacific University
Internship Site: Woodhull Medical Center
“I spent my time in graduate school balancing my daytime academic demands with my evening shifts at a restaurant. Sometimes it felt like the true challenge of my education has been staying financially afloat. I am grateful to receive this assistance as I navigate my next, exciting step. I am committed to paying it forward by providing high-quality healthcare to low-income communities and supporting first-generation students like me through mentorship and advocacy.”
Nicolas L. Camacho (he/him)
Duke University
Internship Site: Western Psychiatric Hospital / University of Pittsburgh Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program
“I am immensely grateful to have received the National Register Internship Travel Scholarship (ITS). These funds will help offset the costs of moving to a mid-sized city as I pursue internship training to further develop as a researcher and clinician. I intend to continue learning evidence-based approaches to study and support the mental health and well-being of youth and their families. The ITS will facilitate my learning process at a critical juncture and help solidify a strong foundation on which to continue building my career as a clinical scientist.”
Victoria Guazzelli Williamson (she/her)
University of Oregon
Internship Site: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/Western Psychiatric Hospital
“This funding is transformational in allowing me to relocate across the country for my clinical internship. The cost of applying to a clinical internship, and relocating for one is a major financial barrier that disproportionately impacts individuals who are already under-represented in the field of clinical psychology. For me, this also coincides with a period of more than three months where I do not have funding. The National Register Internship Travel Scholarship makes this move, and completing the next step in my career, possible.”
Genesis Morales-Dechoudens (she/her)
University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus
Internship Site: Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health
“I’m honored to be a recipient of the 2025 National Register Internship Travel Scholarship and will soon begin my predoctoral internship at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. I look forward to continuing to grow as a clinician and advocate for culturally and developmentally responsive care for children and families.”
Adilene Osnaya (she/her)
Purdue University
Internship Site: VA Maryland Health Care System/ University of Maryland-School of Medicine Psychology Internship Consortium
“I am incredibly grateful for the APF-National Register Internship Travel Scholarship. As a first-generation and lower-income graduate student, this scholarship will help me allocate funds to other necessary expenses as I transition to the next stage of my career. This, in turn, will alleviate some stress and allow me, and others who receive it, to focus on settling into our roles as the next generation of mental health providers.”
Brittany Ricart (she/her)
DePaul University
Internship Site: Behavioral Psychology/Neuropsychology Doctoral Internship Program at Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“I am very grateful to receive the National Register Internship Travel Scholarship as a first generation student and mother of two. This scholarship aided in decreasing financial burden of relocation for internship which will help ease transition into my clinical training this year.”
Delora M. Sutton (she/her)
William James College
Internship Site: Spring Grove Hospital Center
“This scholarship will ease the financial burden of internship travel and allow me to fully focus on advancing my work in culturally responsive psychological assessment for underserved and forensic populations.”
Charlie Su (he/him)
University of North Texas
Internship Site: Washington DC VA Medical Center
“This generous funding reduces the significant financial burden involved with cross-country relocation and helps reorient me towards the exciting next step in my career.”
Claudia Abril Ochoa (she/her)
The University of Southern Mississippi
Internship Site: Nemours Children’s Health – Integrated Behavioral Health Track
“This scholarship will make recolating for internship possible. I am excited about the opportunity of completing my internship in an amazing hospital and increase accessibility to quality services for underrepresented populations.”
Martina Fruhbauerova (she/her)
University of Kentucky
Internship Site: Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Adult Clinical Track
Tram Hong Nguyen (she/her)
Mississippi State University
Internship Site: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
“This funding will ease financial burdens during my internship year, allowing me to fully focus on providing trauma-informed care and advancing my clinical and research skills—critical steps toward my goal of becoming a licensed psychologist serving underserved communities.”
Rowan Hunt (she/they)
University of Louisville
Internship Site: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Western Psychiatric Hospital
“Words cannot express how grateful I am to have recieved the National Register Internship Travel Scholarship! Without the financial support of family or a partner, I have had to navigate innumerable financial obstacles throughout graduate school. This scholarship makes an unimaginable difference as I prepare to move to begin internship at my dream site, and allows me to turn my focus towards feeling prepared for the next year of my training.”
S.
Internship Site: VA Maine Healthcare System
“Pursuing a clinical graduate degree has been rewarding and stretching. As exciting as it is to be matched at a site for training, moving while completing academic requirements and not having a substantial income can prevent folx from actually completing their graduate program. Receiving this scholarship shifted my capacity, eased some stress, and provided intangible support because I know that this organization sees its future colleagues.
In gratitude, S.”
Leland Barclay (she/her)
Chestnut Hill College
Internship Site: VA Medical Center, Syracuse
Jonathan Ahuna
University of South Carolina
Internship Site: VA Maryland Healthcare System / University of Maryland School of Medicine – School Mental Health Track
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