First-Year $5k Tuition Scholarship
Accreditation
RDGS is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC)
Financial Aid
Financial Aid and Enrollment Incentives now available for the 2022 cohort
PsyD Program Overview
Download our digital brochure to learn more about our program
First-Year Enrollment Incentive Program
How it Works
The first 10 applicants to enroll are eligible to receive the $5k tuition scholarship for their first academic year.
How it Impacts You
Students who enroll will receive a substantial tuition break while pursuing their PsyD program.
How to Get Started
- Complete the admissions application: https://www.reissdavis.edu/apply_now.html
- Complete the scholarship application: https://www.reissdavis.edu/scholarship_application.html
- Complete the FAFSA application: https://studentaid.gov/
Sign up to attend a virtual open house, call or email our admissions office.
Are you looking for a program designed to:
- Be Affordable and Conveniently Accessible?
- Be Tailored to Fit Your Busy Schedule?
- Improve Your Professional Practice?
- Increase your knowledge about psychodynamically-oriented and neurobiologically-informed child psychology and psychotherapy?
- Sharpen your clinical skills when working with children in your therapeutic cases?
Then Reiss-Davis is right for you.
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What Distinguishes our PsyD Program
Our PsyD Degree is Unique to the Industry
Combining a psychodynamic, neurobiological and child-focused approach
Conveniently Located
Our freeway-adjacent Vista Del Mar campus in West LA offers ample parking and a beautiful setting for your studies
Affordable
Reasonable tuition, scholarships and FAFSA availability make graduate education possible
Learning Management System
Academic contact through our LMS system keeps students connected with each other and faculty for a sense of community and better understanding and retention of monthly coursework
Seminar-style Classes
Encourages collaboration, interaction, and absorption that ensures a better experience than traditional lecture-based courses
Quality Instructors and Mentors
Clinical leaders in their own rights, our staff guide students throughout their education and into their advancing careers
Targeted
You can earn your PsyD with three years of coursework plus dissertation even while working full-time and maintaining your quality of life
Manageable
You commit to a one-weekend per month residential class schedule. From there, our hybrid program options keep you connected and learning throughout the rest of the month
Our Mission
To offer mental health providers a unique doctoral education integrating psychodynamic, neurobiological, and trauma-informed perspectives and prepare them with competency in theory, skills, technique, and professionalism to more effectively serve the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and their families from a position of cultural humility, equity, and inclusion to make a difference in their lives.
Our Core Values
- Compassion: A commitment to act toward all in a spirit of empathy, caring, justice, and respect.
- Excellence: A commitment to high expectations with accountability and creativity; to develop life-long learners who contribute to our professional mental-health community.
- Inclusion: A commitment to respect the distinct abilities, talents, perspectives, and skills of all through awareness of self and others.
- Integrity: A commitment to act authentically with truth, honesty, professionalism, and transparency.
What Students and Graduates Are Saying*
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Report gaining good understanding of classical psychological and object relations theory through the program
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Report studying at RDGS has influenced my desire to grow professionally
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Report that the program improved my critical thinking skills (questioning, interpreting, and applying information)
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RDGS offers the dissertation writing support I need to be successful