Graduate Clinical Intern

Restored; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 25,000 - 29,000; Part time

Job summary

Restored Life Counseling in Glendale/North Phoenix, AZ, is offering a paid practicum/internship for graduate students in counseling, marriage and family therapy, or social work. The role provides supervised clinical hours, a real caseload, and documented supervision with feedback.

You will be introduced to clients, sign notes as a graduate intern under supervision, and participate in case consultations while practicing within your program’s scope and the practice’s Christian faith-based

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled and in good standing in a accredited master's or doctoral program in counseling, marriage and family therapy, or social work.
• Practicum or internship placement approved by your academic program, with written confirmation from your program.
• A faculty or program-director reference.
• Able to work in person in the Phoenix metro (telehealth allowed, not fully remote).
• Able to affirm and work within the practice's Christian statement of faith.

Responsibilities

• Carry a caseload of individual, couples and family clients under supervision, in person and by telehealth, built up as your competence and your schedule allow.
• Write your clinical documentation and submit it for your supervisor's review and co-signature, within the practice's timeliness standard.
• Meet with your clinical supervisor on a scheduled basis, and be observed.
• Participate in case consultation with the clinical team.
• Practice within the scope your program and supervisor set for you, bringing anything outside it to your supervisor.

Education

Master's or Doctoral program in counseling, marriage and family therapy, or social work

Job description

Restored Life Counseling · Glendale / North Phoenix, Arizona
Employment: W-2, hourly, non-exempt · paid placement
Reports to: Your assigned clinical supervisor

Our mission

Restored Life Counseling provides affordable, quality, distinctively Christian mental health care to the Phoenix metro. Each of those three words is a commitment, and each one costs something.

Affordable. We take insurance, and we keep a sliding-scale and scholarship lane, so that cost is not the reason someone goes without care.

Quality. We measure outcomes rather than assume them. Supervision here is real supervision, and documentation is written to a standard that survives review. We pursue specialty certification from the bodies that set the standard in their fields (IITAP, EMDRIA, ICEEFT), so that a clinician's judgment is supported by more than their own accumulated experience.

Distinctively Christian. Not a label applied to otherwise ordinary care, but a clinical model that proceeds from a Christian understanding of what a person is, what has gone wrong, and what healing means. Our faith is the fuel for our service, not a prerequisite for anyone's care. We serve every client, inside the faith and outside it, with the same excellence and the same respect.

Where this is going

Affordable care that rests on goodwill is fragile. It lasts exactly as long as the donations do. So we are building four things that feed each other, and the point of building them is to put affordability on something sturdier than a fundraising cycle.

Care at scale. Enough clinicians, credentialed with enough payers, that someone who needs help can be seen in days rather than months, and that the sliding scale is a real door rather than a short waiting list.

Research. A practice that produces findings rather than only consuming them. Clinical work raises the questions; research answers them in a form other clinicians can act on.

Professional training. Training that carries a credential, so that the clinician who finishes it can demonstrate a competence rather than claim an interest, and where the standard is set high enough that the credential means something to people outside this practice.

Publishing for ordinary people. Resources for the person who will never sit in a therapist's office, written plainly, in language they already speak, about the things that are actually wrong.

These are not four items on a list. Each one feeds the next. Clinical work generates the questions. Research answers them. Training turns answers into competence other clinicians can acquire. Publishing puts them into ordinary hands. The clinicians that training reaches and the readers that publishing reaches come back through the front door as colleagues and as clients. And the revenue from the middle three is what holds the first one's price down.

Christian fidelity runs through all four. A secular organization could build every one of these, and several have. What makes this one different is that the clinical model, the research questions, the training curriculum and the published resources all proceed from the same convictions, and are held to them when it would be easier not to be.

Most of that is not built yet. Today this is a clinical job. Your pay is what the compensation section describes and nothing else. Nothing in this section is a promise of additional income, now or later. It is here because you should know what you would be joining, and because the people we want are the ones who find it worth building.

This is a role for a Christian clinician-in-training

You must be able to affirm and work within our statement of faith. That is a requirement of this placement, not a preference, and it carries through to the pastoral and spousal references described under References below. Read that section before you apply.

Our faith is the fuel for our service, not a prerequisite for anyone's care. We serve every client, inside the faith and outside it, with the same excellence and the same respect.

The position

We are hiring a graduate student in counseling, marriage and family therapy, or social work for a paid practicum or internship placement.

The placement gives you:

• Supervised clinical hours that count toward your program's requirements, in a practice that keeps the records to prove them.
• A real caseload. You carry clients, not paperwork about clients. Your hours come from clinical work.
• Documentation reviewed and co-signed by your supervisor, with the feedback that comes with a real read.
• Direct observation of your clinical work, and supervision that is scheduled and protected rather than fitted in.

You are paid for this. Every hour you work here is a paid hour.

What you will do

• Carry a caseload of individual, couples and family clients under supervision, in person and by telehealth, built up as your competence and your schedule allow.
• Write your clinical documentation and submit it for your supervisor's review and co-signature, within the practice's timeliness standard.
• Meet with your clinical supervisor on a scheduled basis, and be observed.
• Participate in case consultation with the clinical team.
• Practice within the scope your program and your supervisor set for you, and bring what is outside it to your supervisor rather than working it out alone.

Your title here

You will be introduced to clients and will sign your notes as a graduate intern under supervision. You are accountable for knowing the title standard Arizona sets and practicing inside it.

Hours and schedule

Hours are scheduled to the caseload that exists, and they grow as it grows. We schedule with your program's hour requirement and your class schedule in view, and we will tell you where your hours stand as you accumulate them.

Compensation

• $18.00 per hour, W-2, paid every two weeks, non-exempt, for every hour you work: sessions, documentation, supervision and consultation time alike. Overtime at time and a half over 40 hours in a week.
• You do not pay us for supervision, and supervision time is not unpaid time.

There are no benefits: no health insurance, no retirement plan, no paid vacation. You receive what Arizona law provides: earned paid sick time, accrued at one hour for every 30 hours worked, and workers' compensation coverage.

Required qualifications

• Currently enrolled and in good standing in an accredited master's or doctoral program in counseling, marriage and family therapy, or social work.
• Practicum or internship placement approved by your academic program, with written confirmation from your program.
• A faculty or program-director reference.
• Able to work in person in the Phoenix metro. Telehealth is part of the practice; this is not a fully remote placement.
• Able to affirm and work within the practice's Christian statement of faith.

References

• A pastoral reference, from a pastor, elder, or spiritual leader who knows you well enough to speak to your character rather than your résumé.
• A spousal reference, if you are married. The household you go home to is part of how you will sit with the households that come to us (1 Timothy 3:4-5). If you are not married, nothing is required here.
• A faculty or program-director reference, together with your program's written confirmation that this placement is approved.

Preferred

• Coursework or prior experience in couples and family work, trauma, or addiction.
• Experience in a nonprofit or insurance-based setting.

Working conditions

• Mixed in-person and telehealth. In-person work is in the Glendale / North Phoenix area.
• Scheduling is collaborative and built around your class schedule.
• Supervision time is scheduled and protected.
• The practice uses TherapyNotes for documentation and scheduling.

Equal opportunity

Restored Life Counseling is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or Arizona law. As a religious nonprofit we do consider religion in hiring, as Section 702 of the Civil Rights Act permits. The statement of faith and the pastoral and spousal references described above are bona fide religious requirements of this role. We provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities on request at any point in the process.