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Brinda Vaidya, MA (She/Her)

Brinda Vaidya, M.A. (she/her) is a clinical psychology doctoral student. She obtained her Masters in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School and is working on completing her doctorate. Brinda's clinical interests include providing psychotherapy to adolescents and adults to foster personal meaning-making and promote identity development. She has experience working with trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, ADHD, and interpersonal issues. Brinda draws from a variety of orientations, having primarily worked from a psychodynamic and humanistic-existential lens. In her free time, Brinda is a creative at heart-- she thoroughly enjoys music, creative writing, and painting, as well as coffee, yoga, and long walks on the lakefront.

Hannah Daniels, MA (She/Her)

Hannah Daniels, M.A (she/her), is a current clinical psychology doctoral student in The Chicago School’s Clinical Psychology PsyD program. She currently holds her Master’s in Clinical Psychology. She has worked in a variety of settings across the lifespan, providing psychotherapy and psychological evaluations. Her clinical interests include navigating identity development, life transitions, and anxiety disorders. Hannah uses a blend of orientations ultimately rooted in relational principles. She strives to help clients gain insight by utilizing the therapeutic relationship, along with values-based interventions. Outside of her clinical practice, she loves to go to concerts, comedy shows, and run along the lake.

Training FAQs

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Training FAQs *

  • Trainees have ample access to the most recent and innovative education, literature, and research. They come in active and passionate. They have significantly more support through supervision, practicum seminars, and cohort consultation, than someone who isn’t under supervision. This support is through a wide range of licensed and pre-licensed individuals.

  • Short answer, yes, but it depends on how you define short term. “Time-limited” is more accurate. Trainees are available for 6 months. During the months in between, there is opportunity to receive bridge therapy from Sunny Swift, PsyD.

  • Yes! It is important to consider that other perspectives from new clinicians in the rotations. Diversity of thought, skills, and backgrounds can offer perspectives that some clinicians may not offer, while others will.

  • Recording is not required, if you are comfortable with 1-2 recordings per semesters, we welcome that. We use audio recorded through Zoom. There is no video recording.

  • Yes, always and forever!

  • Yes, they have completed assessment (basic) and therapy (intermediate) practicums. These are both 1 year long, ~20 hour a week, supervised externships. This training opportunity is supplemental and they are gathering experience in other settings as well.

  • Trainees receive 1 hour of clinical supervision per week. We review audio recordings, discuss diagnosis and treatment planning. Trainees receive required and optional trainings on content related to the care they provide. The supervisor, Sunny Swift, PsyD, is highly experienced in a variety of presenting concerns and identities with a practice focus on LGBQIA and Transgender identities.

  • We are currently at capacity for training opportunities for the 2026-2027 training year. However, please reach out for preliminary interest in future training opportunities. I work with PsyD students from The Chicago School - Chicago Campus, with opportunity for more PsyD programs in the future. Trainees are paid a relatively competitive stipend, $1000 per semester, approximately 5 sessions per week for two semesters.