Intern (Therapy/Counseling) – Therapy/Counseling

Job Description

Intern (Therapy/Counseling) | Monte Nido

The Tone:
This is an internship at Monte Nido & Affiliates, available across various facilities in the United States. Monte Nido & Affiliates is a leading organization with over two decades of experience in delivering specialized treatment for eating disorders. The company offers a distinctive treatment model that combines medically sophisticated care with a personalized, evidence-based approach for adults and adolescents. This internship provides a crucial opportunity for graduate students to gain hands-on clinical training within a multi-disciplinary team setting, contributing to comprehensive care that integrates medical, psychiatric, nutritional, and clinical strategies in intimate home-like environments. The role directly supports Monte Nido’s mission to save lives and empower individuals to achieve their healthy selves.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Part-time
• Location: In-person, United States

• Team: Multi-disciplinary treatment team
• Mission: Save lives while providing the opportunity for people to realize their healthy selves.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Facilitate: Lead or co-lead group therapy sessions to provide essential clinical support and therapeutic interventions for clients.
• Support: Deliver direct meal support and contribute to milieu support, fostering a therapeutic environment for clients in various program settings.
• Engage: Conduct individual client check-ins, offering personalized interaction and monitoring client well-being and progress.
• Participate: Engage in required meals and snacks with clients, utilizing these moments for therapeutic interaction and modeling healthy relationships with food.
• Commit: Maintain a minimum commitment of a full school year and dedicate at least 16 hours weekly to internship duties.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Must be currently enrolled in a graduate program focused on Mental Health Counseling, Professional Counseling, Clinical Social Work, or Marriage and Family Therapy, or a closely related field of study.
• Experience: Actively working towards fulfilling required internship hours for their current graduate program, indicating readiness to apply theoretical knowledge in a clinical setting.