Clinical Internship

We provide short-term, sexual trauma-focused, individual, couples, family, and group counseling with licensed clinicians and trained counselors for survivors of sexual violence and their families and friends. We work with survivors and their loved ones to find their strengths, to understand the impact of trauma on their lives, to build and use coping skills, and to explore ways to heal and thrive.

• Students must be in the second year of their program.
• A 40-hour training is required to be completed prior to the beginning of the internship. Candidates must be able to attend week-long summer intensive training Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. held in August. Dates to be announced.
• Must provide clinical services to BARCC from beginning of September to beginning or middle of May (depending on completion of requirements).
• 24 hours in the office per week.
• 1 evening a week is required (until 8:00 p.m.) to see clients, the nights available for late coverage are Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
• No recording of clinical sessions are allowed.
• Attend mandatory weekly Clinical Disposition meetings on Tuesdays from 1:00–3:00 p.m.
• Attend mandatory weekly Intern Group Supervision. Group Supervision meetings are held on Tuesdays 9:30–11:00 a.m.
• Weekly written process recordings are required (2 process recordings a week to be handed to your supervisor 48 hours before your supervision meeting)

Intakes

Interns are responsible for completing psychosocial intakes for the counseling program as scheduled, required to complete two intakes weekly (more intakes if the assigned client sessions are less than 10 sessions in a week). Interns will be responsible for completing a write-up for each intake, to be signed and approved by their clinical supervisor.

Counseling

Each intern will have the opportunity to work with individuals, couples, families, as well as groups.  The number of clinical hours will vary [from 10-14 hours a week] depending on the requirements of each program and the clinical needs of the agency.  Interns will be responsible for maintaining all corresponding notes, paperwork, collateral calls, etc. for each assigned client. All paperwork will be approved and signed by the intern’s clinical supervisor. All paperwork is due in a timely manner. All clinical interns are required to do 2 process recordings of a counseling session each week to be turned into the clinical intern supervisor 2 days (48hrs) before supervision for review by supervisor (A process recording is a written account of the interaction between intern and client.). The recordings are to be done during the intern’s “down time” at the office or in the interns off time. The time to do these recordings does not replace the time the intern is to be seeing clients or doing intakes.

Supervision

Each intern will be expected to:

• Meet with their primary supervisor for one hour (60min) each week.
• Attend mandatory weekly Clinical Disposition meetings on Tuesdays from 1:00-3:00pm.
• Attend mandatory weekly Intern Group Supervision. Group Supervision meetings are held on Tuesdays  9:30am-11:00 (interns must complete one formal case presentation 1st semester and one formal case presentation 2nd semester)
• If an intern facilitates a group, they will attend supervision for that group.

Administrative Tasks

Interns will be assigned weekly administrative tasks as well as possible year long projects that provide insight into agency, such as grants and funding through gathering and research of data or collecting and organizing resources.

Interns will check request for services line and dispatch requests when client services coordinator/navigator are out of the office.