Internships with a Stipend or Share of Client Fees

San Francisco

Access Institute
Two year internship training in psychoanalytic therapy or psychotherapy with elders.
Stipend: $6,000/year.

Aids Health Project - (San Francisco)
The counseling internship program provides comprehensive clinical training to mental health students seeking experience in the practice of Brief Psychotherapy and includes training in Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy, couple's work, and group facilitation. Trainees work primarily with gay and bisexual men and address issues including HIV and other health-related concerns, intimacy, gay identity, communication, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. The traineeship requires a 20-hour per week commitment from July though June of the following year. Applications are due in February.
Stipend: $100/month.

Balboa Teen Health Center
Call (415) 469-4512 for the general line.
Balboa Teen Health Center is a free clinic for adolescents, funded by the Department of Public Health. It is located in Balboa Public High School, in the Excelsior district of San Francisco. Clinicians provide individual, family, and group psychotherapy especially around substance abuse and mental health issues.
Stipend depending on experience.

Creative Health Services
Each intern will serve as a Mental Health Consultant in after-school programs at two
SFUSD elementary, middle, or high school sites in San Francisco’s Richmond District.
This internship carries an annual stipend of $3000.
16 hours/week.
Interns can expect to accrue approximately 500 children’s hours towards MFT licensure.
For more information contact Craig Garfinkel, Ph.D.
Director, Creative Health Services
creativehealthservices@gmail.com

Edgewood Center for Children and Families
Edgewood has a number of different internships doing family and child therapy. They generally take applications in the Fall and early Winter. They have no listing of internships on their site but if you contact them and ask human resources they should point you in the right direction.
Stipend: $4,000/year

Holos Institute - (San Francisco and Oakland)
Training in ecopsychology while seeing clients in psychotherapy. You can also facilitate group vision quests and shamanic journeying I think. They rent out blocks of time at their center and you keep some or all of the fees from your clients.

Oak Creek Counseling Center - (San Francisco, Berkeley, Pleasant Hill)
They give you office space to see clients for psychotherapy. You pay for training and supervision and they take a portion of your client fees. You work pretty autonomously.

St. Anthony's Foundation
Internships available doing individual, child, and family therapy. Working with the homeless and those in drug and alcohol rehab among others. Also there's a pre-masters practicum and an expressive arts internship available. You may have to email someone to get the internship description.
Stipend: $1,000 per semester for a second year graduate counseling psychology student or $1,000 per six months for a post-graduate registered MFT intern.

San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
Part time internship with an adult focus or a child focus. Interns do play therapy or individual therapy, counsel on a parent talk line, and drop in counseling. Has a reputation for providing great training and being a great organization to work for. The website has no mention of the internship so you have to contact someone there.
Stipend: around $300 a month.
Review: "Two thumbs up."

San Francisco Unified School District
Working with K-12 graders in underperforming STAR schools. There are probably other internships within SFUSD but I found their website difficult to navigate.

USF Center for Child and Family Development
Interns act as counselors through the school year in SF/Bay area schools. 1 1/2 to two days a week. 10 client hours a week. Took 1 and a 1/2 school years for one intern to get their hours. I'm not sure if there is a stipend or not. "Quality seems to vary w/school assignment. Quality of group supervision good. Don’t expect good facilities though – being a self-starter valuable. May or may not include family hours."
Review 1: "Recommended: Yes!"
Review 2: "Wasn’t great but had some advantages."
Review 3: "8 out of 10."
Review 4: "Not an ideal container for therapy and little access to families, but a good way to get hours quickly. (7 out of 10)"


East Bay

Alameda Family Services - (Alameda County)
Formerly Xanthos, inc. Non-profit agency puts people in schools in Alameda. Ten hours a week/2 days a week. People who worked at AFS were very helpful. Good supervision. Decent work experience. Flexible, not a lot of requirements.
Stipend: full-time internship is $7,200.
Review: Recommended.

Ann Martin Center - (Piedmont)
Two year part-time or full-time internship doing play therapy with children. Very comprehensive psychoanalytic training and supervision. Lots of writing and reading involved. Has a very good reputation for training solid child therapists. Most of the interns are from doctoral programs but they do accept MFTs.
Stipend: $9/client hour for the first year. $13/client hour for the second year.
Review: "Highly recommended."

Blue Oak Therapy Center - (Berkeley)
The website does not have any information on their internship program but I saw a flier saying interns get paid some for each client hour. You provide brief and long-term psychotherapy and can take clients with you into private practice.

City of Berkeley: Mental Health - (Berkeley)
Two different training programs: a family, youth, and children program and an adult program. I heard it pays but I couldn't dig up any information about whether it paid a living wage or a stipend.

Earth Circles Counseling Center - (Oakland)
Psychotherapy with individuals, couples, groups, families, and children. They have no details about the internship on their site but I was told they do pay something.

Family Paths - (Oakland, Hayward, Fremont)
One year 15-20 hour/week internship/practicum working with children and families.
Stipend: $1250/year for interns, $750/year for trainees.
Review: I'm a trainee there (From the [CIIS] EXA program) and am loving it...I'm continuing on as an intern next year despite the very small stipend! I work with kids, adults, and sometimes families or couples in the TIPS program on an outpatient basis.

Holos Institute - (Oakland and San Francisco)
Training in ecopsychology while seeing clients in psychotherapy. You can also facilitate group vision quests and shamanic journeying I think. They rent out blocks of time at their center and you keep some or all of the fees from your clients.

Horizons Family Counseling - (Livermore)
Horizons Family Counseling is offering a new, expanded Internship program.
We are opening up our Internship to MFT and Social Work Trainees as well as
post-graduate Interns. They are placing Trainees/Interns in the five middle schools in Livermore. They don't say if there's a stipend or not.
Contact: Ileana Soto, MFT and Clinical Supervisor
Livermore, CA 94550
925-371-4747; isoto@ci.livermore.ca.us

The Link to Children - (Oakland)
Two year part-time internship doing play therapy with 0-5 year olds, parent and teacher consultation. Interns are trained in attachment theory, systems theory, behavioral interventions, and cross-cultural competency.
Stipend: $910/month.

Touchstone Counseling Services - (Pleasant Hill) 
Private practice internship with opportunities to work with children, adults, couples, and families.

Women's Therapy Center - (El Cerrito)
A 2-year program training MFTIs and PsyDs in psychodynamic, relational therapy with women. This internship has been recommended by a former employee.

North Bay

Novato Youth Center - (Novato)
Mostly child therapy, a little family work. Poverty/crisis related issues. Mixed white, A-A and latino population. Low income, on site at youth center. (Medi-cal). Dark building. Transpersonal element to training. Pays $15 per client hour.
Review: Supportive wonderful staff. Got almost all hours in that year. 10 client hours a week, 17 hours total. Definitely recommended if living in Marin.

South Bay

Adolescent Counseling Services - (Palo Alto)
Positions in adolescent substance abuse treatment program and an on-campus counseling program.

The Process Therapy Institute - (Los Gatos)
PTI has a mirror training program for which you must pay a monthly fee, and lets you set up your own private practice internship under their auspices. They take a portion of your clients fees and you keep the rest.


Teen and Family Counseling Center - (Campbell)
A part-time practicum and internship site working with teens and children.