Saturday, February 23, 2008

Unpaid Internships

Stepping Stones Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Inc. - (Multiple Locations)
Most of the clientele are between 18 months and 22 years of age. With the recent implementation of family and individual therapy in the program, family and individual adult hours will be possible. Clients are located in the South Bay, Peninsula, East Bay and North Bay. Part-time and Full-time intern positions are available on an as needed basis. If you are interested in finding out more about our MFT supervised internship program, please call Jerred Jolin or Roxane Tuason at (650) 357-0571.

San Francisco


California Pacific Medical Center - (San Francisco)
1) Integrative Health Services
Call Kate Rose Kriner at (415) 600-3788 for more info.
This placement is part of CPMC's Institute of Health and Healing. They provide a holistic complementary approach to the treatment of breast cancer in women. They use are, dance and music in a traditional group therapy setting. Co-lead therapy group for women with breast cancer
2) Post-Acute Services
Call Craig Garfinkel the training coordinator at (415) 600-2537 for more info.
The Activities Department at CPMC provides individual and group expressive arts therapy to hospitalized medical patients and their families and caregivers. The average stay at the hospital is two weeks. Please refer to agency file for additional information and how to apply.Great opportunity to work with an Expressive Arts Team, who is actively developing an approach to therapy that includes somatics and the transpersonal.

C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco - (San Francisco)
Their James Goodrich Whitney Clinic is apparently now taking MFT interns for their two-year program. On the website it says they accept only to doctoral students but someone emailed me and said she's heard from two sources that they're taking MFTIs.

Haight Ashbury Psychological Services
- (San Francisco)
HAPS has lots of clients and lots of rooms available to use. They are also a practicum site for pre-masters trainees.

Marina Counseling Center - (San Francisco)
This counseling center is in a relatively wealthy part of town and has a good reputation for helping interns get enough clients to move into private practice afterwards. You pay for the first year of training and in your second year you can keep some money from your clients.

New Perspectives Center for Counseling
- (San Francisco)
Counseling center that trains you in DBT, Hakomi, EMDR, and expressive arts among others. You pay for training the first year and in your second year you can get money from your clients.


San Francisco Therapy Collective
- (San Francisco)
We are offering the opportunity to participate in an exciting and fast growing LGBTQI focused mental health practice, two hours of group supervision a week as well as a small stipend. We are looking for a year commitment and a 10 hour/week time investment, as a minimum.

Seton Medical Center Outpatient Clinic - (Daly City)
Work with acutely mentally ill patients. I've heard they have an internship but I could not find any info on their website. Also, not sure if there's a stipend or not.

Sutter VNA Hospice Bereavement Program - (San Francisco)
Part-time internship doing bereavement counseling with relatives of people who've died in the hospice. Good training. Call Aimee Tomzak at 415-600-0467 if interested in their San Francisco program.

East Bay

Crisis Support Services - (Alameda)
Unpaid internship with the opportunity to work on a crisis line, with seniors, with grief clients, with children in schools, and to lead groups.

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. Horizons Family Counseling has been in existence for 37 years. Our agency is in partnership with the Livermore Police Department. We handle crisis situations when needed; we work with families as they face a range of challenges, from a youth who is beyond parental control, running away,
truant, etc., to a first grader encountering socialization issues.

Mythago Child and Family Guidance - (Alameda)
One year training (or longer) for graduate and post graduate students who are placed two days each week in schools in the East Bay. We utilize many approaches in our work with children and are broadly based theoretically. This includes but is not limited to Jungian, Archetypal, Modern/Post-Modern Analytic, Somatic, Transpersonal, Cultural and Sociological points of view. Please send resume and RSVP if interested to Anthony Guarnieri at aguarnieri@ciis.edu

The Pacific Center - (Berkeley)
Primarily working with people in the LGBT community. 20 hours per week.

Native American Health Center - (Oakland)
Native American Health Center is a holistic health care for Native Americans providing medical, mental and substance treatment. Clinical strategies attempt to understand problems from a non-pathological viewpoint. American Indian cultural healing includes prayer, singing, drumming and other spiritual ceremonies. Please see agency file for more information.
Interns perform assessments, psychosocial treatment plans and individual case managment and outpatient counseling. Primary population is Native American. Provide intake assessments, attend trainings and supervision. 10-15 hours per week.

The Psychotherapy Institute - (Berkeley)
A two-year post-masters internship centered around psychodynamic therapy.

We Care Services for Children - (Concord)
They offer a variety of unpaid college internships working with children. Home of the Autism Family Support Project.

North Bay

Community Institute for Psychotherapy - (San Rafael)
Psychodynamically oriented internship requiring two-year commitment. Also a pre-doctoral internship.

Family Service Agency of Marin - (Marin)
15-20 hours/week internship with several different tracks to choose from: child, adult, and family counseling; suicide prevention; childhood trauma pregnancy and early parenting; school-based programs.
Stipend: only for bilingual interns.

Family Works - (Marin)
Training in many different therapy modalities while doing adult, couple, child, family and group psychotherapy.

Hospice of Petaluma - (Petaluma)
Working with children around bereavement/terminal illness.
Review: Great work environment. Very good training and supervision. 9 out of 10.

The International Center for Attitudinal Healing - (Sausalito)
Running groups with children around bereavement, living with illness, hospice work counseling children who are dying.  Very good supervision and training.
Review: 9 out of 10.

Napa Valley Unified School District -- (Napa Valley)
We train students to provide individual and / or group psychotherapy to K-12 students with mild to moderate emotional or behavioral challenges in exchange for training and supervision (individual and group).  It is unpaid, 1-3 days/week, for the duration of the school year (August - June). Trainees can log up to 10 client hours / week, interns up to 20.
Email Pam Walton, MFT at pam_walton@nvusd.org for more information.


South Bay

Adolescent Counseling Services(ACS) - (Palo Alto)
Adolescent Counseling Service’s (ACS) provides school based therapy and substance abuse treatment for teens.

Bay Area Family Therapy Training Associates (BAFTTA)
BAFTTA offers a 9 month long field placement training. Interns provide a wide range of services to local schools in exchange for supervision, consultation and training in narrative therapy.

College of San Mateo Office of Psychological Services
- (San Mateo)
Submitted Review: This is a site that is influenced by Rogers and carry on a humanistic tradition. You'd do the internship approximately 10 other interns and have weekly group check-ins and training. You're on site at CSM about 16 hours a week. The trainings are poor but you get a decent diverse caseload, you also get to sign off on at least 5 client hours each week when you're the counselor on call. Contact Makiko Ueda at (650) 574-6125 if interested.

The Community Health Awareness Council - (Mountain View)
CHAC's primary focus is working with kids in the Mountain View and Los Altos area schools.

Youth and Family Enrichment Services - (San Carlos)
Work with youth and families.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

RE: UCSF AIDS Health Project --
The AIDS Health Project does offer a $100 per month stipend for our clinical trainees. The applicationo deadline for our 2009/2010 training year is February 6, 2009. Applications can be down loaded from our website: www.ucsf-ahp.org
If you have any questions, please feel free to call: Stephan Ouellette, LCSW Interim Traineeship Coordinator at 415-514-3229.
Best wishes.

Unknown said...

Unpaid private practice internship available for MFTI with interest in eating disorders. Located in San Francisco.

You would see 2-5 clients per week.

Contact Angela Harmon at
tippno@Yahoo.com please forward your CV and letter of interest.

Sara said...

Moving to the SF Area and looking for Counseling centers in the city with available MFT intern positions. This was an amazing resource!! Thank you!