It is part of the for-profit[2] Alliant International University where each campus's Clinical Psychology Psy.D.
[citation needed] The school has degree programs in clinical psychology, marriage and family therapy, clinical counseling, Organizational Psychology, and psychopharmacology at campuses in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno, Sacramento, and Irvine, and abroad in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Mexico City.
[4] CSPP is one of a handful of APA- accredited schools that also offered a clinical doctoral respecialization in professional psychology.
[1] CSPP educates master's and doctoral-level psychologists in professional practice models and assures that its students and faculty are as diverse as the State of California.
At its founding, CSPP worked out of borrowed or rented space with a volunteer (unpaid) faculty, but had a large number of student applicants who were attracted to the new training model.