Are you a counseling student looking for an internship?
Our application window for 2024 internships is closed.
If you are seeking an intership opportunity for Fall 2025, please review the information below and fill out the form if interested if applying.
At our practice we emphasize providing opportunities for therapists in training – it is one way we work to ensure that therapists are able to enter the field to provide high quality care and decrease the mental health provider shortage.
Program Structure
Our internship is based on the apprenticeship model of learning. Interns will spend the first 3-4 weeks of the program exclusively observing sessions. Once interns ave completed their session observations and have gotten exposure to real life counseling practices, they will begin to do cotherapy and take on cases with a staff therapist and/or more experienced intern. Once fully trained, interns will begin to take cases independently.
What will you do as a clinical intern?
Perform supervised individual, couple, family, and group counseling in an in-person and virtual environment
Maintain up-to-date clinical documentation via our electronic recordkeeping system
Commit to a regular schedule with enough hours to complete your internship requirements.
Participate in weekly group supervision with the entire practice as well as weekly individual supervision.
Take consultation calls
Perform other related tasks that are a part of the practice’s operations, such as assisting with responsing to client inquiries
Read more about our current clinical interns here!
Upholding Our Values
Clinical interns will represent and uphold our practice’s values. We hope that after their time at FTC, they will carry these values into their practce.
With clients and the public, we practice being:
Safe
We cultivate a physically and emotionally safe environment in which we stay responsive to client feedback and clearly communicate the plans, boundaries, and limitations of our work. We elicit feedback from clients regularly.
Skilled
All clients meet their therapeutic goals within a reasonable time frame. Therapists practice multiple models well and remain flexible in our work in order to meet clients in a way that will be most effective for them.
Warm
We meet and depart with clients in a positive, friendly manner. We ask about and follow up on important life events–sharing in joy and sorrow.
Responsive
We view our work in a solution oriented way. We provide promised resources, follow up, and responses to calls and emails within one business day.
Invested
We teach self-advocacy and provide space for it within our work with clients. We remain highly focused during session and adjust our approach as needed to help clients to our best ability. We uphold the hope that change in possible and all can live joyful, connected lives.
As a team, we honor:
Growth
We remain responsive and open to feedback from each other. We are provide with and seek out opportunities to grow as a professional and diversify our skill set. We believe that regular consultation is vital to our professional lives.
Connectedness
We make an effort to say Hi and check in with each other as often as possible. We prioritize time with fellow staff throughout the day. We follow up with each other on life events and cases.
Joy
We bring play and fun into our work and interactions. We engage regularly in enjoyable activities with each other.
Trust
We are intentionally vulnerable with one another. We follow through on promised support and tasks. We live with integrity– having our actions aligned with our values.
Whole Person
We publicly and privately recognize the good work of our staff. We value flexibility and emphasis engagement in our outside of work lives.