Qualifications

This is an advanced clinical internship open only to final-year master’s students. 

We are especially interested in applicants who are deeply committed to anti-oppressive therapy and willing to engage in this work with intentionality, humility, and care.

Ideal candidates will meet the following criteria:

• Completion of all academic requirements necessary for clinical placement (as outlined by your graduate program)

• Flexible availability, including:

  • Wednesday mornings (required team meetings)

  • First Fridays of the month (community events)

  • Some evening availability for client sessions

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)

• Capacity for self-direction and accountability

• Willingness to engage in ongoing self-reflection

• Cultural responsiveness and the humility to work across lines of difference with curiosity and respect

• Prior clinical experience

• Relevant lived or professional experience aligned with our values

• Openness to questioning and critically engaging with what you’re learning in your graduate program as part of the work of decolonizing therapy, recognizing that even the most progressive institutions remain embedded in white supremacy

Program Highlights

Resilience is committed to supporting students in meeting their graduation requirements.

• Time commitment: 15+ hours/week (direct and indirect hours)

• Training year: August through June

• Supervision and Consultation:

• Weekly individual supervision (50 hours)

• Biweekly team-wide group consultation (25 hours)

• Monthly anti-racist consultation group (10 hours)

General Overview

Interns participate in a rigorous training experience designed to support the development of trauma-informed and anti-oppressive clinical skills. Our goal is to train therapists we’d be excited to welcome as full-time team members after graduation.

We do not currently set universal hour requirements for our internship program. Instead, we work closely with each partner university to support their specific expectations.

We recognize that each school defines "practicum" and "internship" differently, with varying timelines, hour requirements, and levels of client responsibility. Rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all model, we meet students where they are, ensuring our training aligns with their academic progress and learning goals.

As we continue to strengthen our program, we intend to align our structure with ACEPT standards to support future accreditation and clarity across placements.

Interns also benefit from:

• Monthly community-building events centered on:

• Trauma-informed care

• Anti-oppressive practices

• Access to a diverse team of clinicians with a wide range of identities, lived experiences, and specializations

Responsibilities

• Attend and participate in:

• Weekly individual supervision

• Biweekly group consultation

• Monthly team-wide town halls

• Monthly anti-racist consultation groups

• Monthly community-building events

• Manage a consistent clinical schedule

• Maintain timely and complete clinical documentation

• Collaborate and communicate regularly with the Resilience team

A Note on Internships

At Resilience, we understand that internships are exploitative and outdated, and reflect systemic oppression within the mental health field. While we make an effort to be compliant with graduate program expectations, we also believe it’s essential to name the harm embedded in those systems. The expectation that students pay tuition to provide labor (to institutions generating millions in revenue) reinforces a broader pattern of extracting care work without compensation, particularly from working-class, BIPOC, first-generation, disabled, and other historically marginalized students.

While we believe deeply in disrupting this model, small private practices like ours are not reimbursed adequately by insurance companies to sustainably fund paid training positions. Until there is large-scale systemic change, we do what we can within our limitations. Although we are unable to provide stipends at this time, we are committed to offering high-quality, values-aligned training in a supportive, anti-oppressive environment, while continuing to advocate for a field that compensates all labor, including that of emerging therapists.

A Note on Compensation

Resilience invests in your training in meaningful and tangible ways. We believe in being transparent about how we support our interns, not just through supervision and clinical experience, but through material resources that reflect our values of equity and care.

Our financial investment includes:

• Paying your clinical supervisor a monthly sum for weekly individual supervision

• Covering the administrative and licensing costs of credentialing you with insurance panels

• Paying for online marketing, such as your listing on Psychology Today and other relevant directories

• Providing a practice-issued phone and email to support clear boundaries between personal and professional time

• Providing a fully furnished office space for in-person client sessions

These expenses are part of how we support your development as a therapist-in-training, while also ensuring your services are accessible to our community.