Practicum & Internship Opportunities

Interns develop skills across the full continuum of outpatient clinical care. Students build their caseload gradually with support from their supervisor and the Insight Therapy & Wellness team.

• Provide individual, couples, and family counseling
• Conduct clinical intakes and psychological or behavioral health evaluations
• Develop case conceptualizations, diagnoses, and individualized treatment plans
• Coordinate care with therapists, psychologists, psychiatric providers, and other professionals
• Apply evidence-based interventions and treatment approaches
• Develop strong, clinically meaningful documentation skills
• Participate in weekly individual and group supervision
• Gain exposure to quality assurance and organizational Performance Improvement initiatives

We believe the supervisory relationship is one of the most important parts of clinical training. Counseling interns can choose from 18 available supervisors, while Master of Social Work interns can choose from four board-approved social work supervisors.

Students have a brief meet and greet with potential supervisors and select a strong match based on clinical interests, populations served, treatment modalities, professional goals, and supervisory style.

Throughout the placement, every intern receives weekly individual supervision with a dedicated supervisor and weekly group supervision with licensed providers and fellow graduate students. Throughout the internship, students may request consultation or learning meetings with other Insight providers to explore additional therapeutic modalities, consult on cases with specialists, and gain clinical skills and perspectives beyond those available through their dedicated supervisor.

Interns begin with structured onboarding designed to prepare them for the complete client-care process—from receiving a new referral through assessment, treatment planning, ongoing care, documentation, coordination, and discharge.

Training covers clinical documentation, organizational policies and procedures, emergency preparedness, risk management, and other essential components of outpatient behavioral healthcare.

Students also receive access to our online clinical training platform, with courses designed to strengthen clinical knowledge and practical skills throughout the internship. We regularly share approximately 5–10 free continuing education and professional-development opportunities each week on specialized populations, treatment modalities, interventions, and emerging behavioral health topics.

Strong documentation is an essential clinical skill. Interns receive dedicated training in comprehensive assessment, treatment planning, measurable objectives, risk documentation, continuity of care, and maintaining a clear clinical Golden Thread throughout the record.

Students also gain hands-on quality-assurance experience by reviewing a small number of provider charts—typically two to three providers—using a standardized chart-audit tool. Students are trained in the process and receive ongoing oversight and feedback.

This experience helps interns understand documentation from the perspective of both the treating clinician and the organization, including quality, compliance, continuity of care, and best practices.

Each intern participates in one Performance Improvement project during the approximately 9–12 month placement. With guidance from a dedicated supervisor, students select a project based on their interests and participate in:

• Identifying a clinical or organizational need
• Evaluating trends or opportunities for improvement
• Developing an action plan
• Contributing to implementation when appropriate
• Examining outcomes and lessons learned

Projects may focus on increasing knowledge or use of a clinical intervention, strengthening a workflow, improving documentation, enhancing client outcomes, or addressing another meaningful quality-of-care initiative.

This gives students a perspective that direct clinical work alone cannot fully provide: how behavioral health organizations evaluate services, identify opportunities, implement change, and measure whether those changes improve care.

Because students provide direct clinical care and develop ongoing therapeutic relationships, Insight Therapy & Wellness does not accept students for practicum-only placements. A practicum period alone is generally too short to establish a caseload and provide the consistency and continuity of care that clients deserve.

Students beginning practicum with Insight must be able to commit to the full internship experience, completing Practicum, Internship I, and Internship II consecutively without a full-semester break between placements.

This extended commitment allows students to build and maintain a caseload gradually, develop meaningful therapeutic relationships, work with clients across stages of treatment, and experience the progression of clinical work over time. It also enables students to fully benefit from supervision, training, Performance Improvement, quality assurance, and professional-development opportunities.

The program typically spans approximately 9–12 months, depending on the student’s university requirements. Applicants should consider this commitment carefully before applying because continuity of care is a central priority of the program.

This internship is designed to be more than a place to accumulate required clinical hours. We want students to leave Insight Therapy & Wellness with:

• Experience functioning as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team
• Confidence managing clients from intake through ongoing treatment
• Strong documentation, assessment, and treatment-planning skills
• Meaningful relationships with experienced clinicians
• An understanding of high-quality behavioral healthcare at both the individual client and organizational level

For students preparing to transition from graduate training into professional practice, our goal is to provide the experience, supervision, mentorship, and practical skills needed to make that transition successfully. We offer post-graduate employment opportunities based on standardized criteria. *