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Now Accepting Spring 2025 Internship Applications!
As a Therapist Intern you'll be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing a comprehensive care program for clients receiving behavioral health services at Southwest Center (SWC). The SWC Behavioral Health Program is designed to empower clients to develop healthy choices and continue to live well irrespective of a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or HIV status. The Behavioral Health Program serves all people with general behavioral health outpatient service while also offering a special focus on outpatient treatment for members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community as well as for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Under the direction of the Director of Mental and Social Wellness, you will address the behavioral health needs of SWC clients, specifically using psychotherapy for the purpose of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals, couples, families, and groups.
What your day will look like at Southwest Center:
- You'll provide psychotherapy services for SWC clients, including initial assessment and treatment.
- You'll create treatment plans, identify areas to be addressed, and work with clients to develop short- and long-term goals.
- You'll provide individual, family, and group psychotherapy to facilitate the changes clients desire or need.
- You'll provide crisis intervention as needed.
- You'll consult and collaborate with other professionals both within and outside the agency.
- You'll maintain mental health reports and records in a timely manner.
- You'll participate in community outreach to identify prospective clients and/or community needs and facilitate the satisfaction of those needs.
- You'll participate in mental health planning meetings and supervision with a clinical supervisor.
Requirements
Who we're looking for:
- You're currently enrolled in a behavioral health related graduate degree program (counseling, social work, psychology, or nursing).
- You're willing to learn and engage in new techniques.
- You're proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) software applications.
- You have demonstrated cultural competency to professionally and respectfully serve the LGBTQIAS+ communities.
- All agency interns must be able to work effectively in a mission-driven agency whose clients and staff exhibit significant diversity with respect to race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, nationality, and religion.
By first day of internship you must be able to present:
- A valid level one fingerprint clearance card from the State of Arizona.
- A current CPR/BLS certification.
- Vaccination records for Hep-B.
- A negative/ clear tuberculosis (TB) test from the last 12 months.
- A vaccination record for the current flu vaccination.
We'd love to see you apply if you have these preferred qualifications too:
- You're actively enrolled in a behavioral health related graduate degree program and in the last internship placement of degree program.
- You're bilingual in Spanish and English.
Environmental Factors, Physical Requirements, and Compliance
- Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.
- Office environment, exposure to computer screens for lengthy periods of time.
- Extensive use of computers using a standard computer keyboard.
- May require evening and occasional weekend work.
- While performing the duties of this internship, the intern is regularly required to walk, sit, stand; use hands, talk, and hear. The intern is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.
- This position may require the intern to occasionally climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, bend, or crawl.
- Requires operating standard office equipment (i.e., telephone, computer, fax machine, copier, etc.)
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Southwest Center is an equal opportunity employer and we value a healthy work environment free from harassment and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. The Southwest Center provides an inclusive and respectful working environment that represents a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, identities, and experiences. We attract applicants who have the cultural awareness to navigate and celebrate these differences.
Our employees and interns are Individuals who have respect for the communities where they live and work and are committed to utilizing culturally and linguistically appropriate strategies and skills in a collaborative environment.We welcome all applicants with personal, direct and/or indirect knowledge of the lives and experience with but not limited to: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); LGBTQIA2S+/Queer individuals; those affected by HIV, people living with disabilities; people with diverse religious beliefs, and other marginalized Individuals that are at the intersections of those identities/experiences. We also encourage those from historically underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
Reasonable Accommodations
Applicants requesting a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the interview process for this internship should email hr@swcenter.org.
