Lacamas Counseling – Intern Program
Lacamas Counseling’s mission is to provide transformative, high-quality counseling that empowers our clients and strengthens our surrounding community in Camas, WA. We are seeking graduate student interns with diverse specialties who are eager to partner with us in that goal.
Position Overview: We are looking for graduate student interns who can provide services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, families, and groups for the clients of Lacamas Counseling.
About: Lacamas Counseling was established in Camas, WA in 2016. We are known in the community for providing competent, high-quality, and transformative mental health counseling. We also are fully invested in creating a healthy, sustainable, and enjoyable environment for all of the counselors who work with us. Our passion has been to create a work environment that supports each other personally and professionally.
Our Values
Lacamas Counseling is seeking graduate student interns who align with the following values:
Professional – It is our belief that counselors need to demonstrate a professional standard in how they present themselves, their timeliness to appointments, their responsiveness to clients, and their follow-through on all clinical documentation. We want counseling interns who show a commitment to continuing to deepen their clinical knowledge, specialties, and competence.
Integrity – It is our belief that counselors need to be full of integrity and be trustworthy to their clients, the community, and colleagues. Counseling interns need to demonstrate a commitment to practice in their areas of competence, seek supervision and consultation when needed, and follow-through on all professional tasks in a timely and respectful manner.
Collaboration – It is our belief that collaborative counselors have the humility, eagerness, and interpersonal skills that are necessary to provide the most thorough client care. We want counseling interns who value collaboration with their clients, providers within Lacamas Counseling, and other trustworthy professionals in the community for coordination of care or appropriate referrals.
These values are integral to what we believe we should be modeling and teaching our clients as characteristics of wholistic well-being.
Requirements:
• Ability to operate independently
• Willingness to do self-marketing recommendations (e.g. free marketing profiles, online counselor communities and forums, networking)
• Alignment to Lacamas Counseling values: Professional, Integrity, and Collaboration
To Apply: Email resume and application questions to priscilla@lacamascounseling.com.
Application Questions:
- What are the terms/dates for your practicum and internship?
- What is your counseling experience (e.g. setting, clientele, specialties)?
- What is your vocational experience (e.g. school, work, trainings, transferrable skills)?
- What life experience has prepared you for this role?
- How do you model the value of being professional (e.g. presentation, timeliness, responsiveness, follow-through, eagerness to increase clinical knowledge and competence)?
- How do you model the value of having integrity (e.g. trustworthy, respect, consultation, commitment)?
- How do you model the value of being collaborative (e.g. interpersonal skills, humility, connection, referrals, coordination of care)?
- What are your ideal counseling interests (e.g. caseload, clientele, specialties)?
- What is your ideal schedule and availability?
- What are you looking for in a supervisor?
- What training and support do you need in order to work with your ideal clientele?
- What are your career goals (i.e. 5 year business plan, dream work environment, professional growth)?
We Provide
Group Practice Electronic Health Record system:
All client care is coordinated through the group practice shared Electronic Health Record (EHR) (i.e. scheduling, client demographics, billing, payments, insurance, out-of-network superbills, clinical assessments, treatment plans, progress and psychotherapy notes, HIPAA compliant client communication, and electronic storage of additional documents). Lacamas Counseling client record management is completely electronic; no paper files are kept on site. The centralized EHR also allows Lacamas Counseling to provide administrative support to streamline and simplify client care for all providers.
Business of Counseling:
We support intern counselors in learning how to run a counseling business and private practice.
Lacamas Counseling Branding, Marketing, and Messaging:
Logos, branding, and group marketing will be available to all intern counselors. We also provide business emails that allow for HIPAA compliant communication between Lacamas Counseling providers, fax, and Lacamas Counseling business cards.
Furnished Office:
All offices are furnished, ADA accessible, and have regular office cleaning service. There are shared office supplies and shared printers/scanners.
Client care:
Furnished and clean waiting room with children’s area, check-in kiosk to notify clinicians of client arrival, water services, resource library, and community referral wall.
Clinical Templates:
We have templates available for clinical assessments and client care.
Administrative Support:
We assist with the administrative aspects of your work so that you can focus on counseling and client care. This optional administrative support can assist with incoming client calls, referrals, scheduling, billing and payments, out-of-network questions, group marketing, onboarding, daily questions and troubleshooting, mail, faxes, scanning, and client records.
Clinical Consultation:
Weekly scheduled clinical supervision is provided. We also offer an optional twice a month group consultation and have created a culture that values spontaneous clinical and peer consultations. We value warm, open, and collaborative professional work that encourages clinical and peer consultations in order to provide the best client care. We want you to be successful.
Trainings:
Optional trainings will be made available as the Leadership Team is able to create and organize opportunities.
Warm and Collaborative Office Culture:
We are intentionally promoting and creating opportunities for relationships, connection, and collaboration amongst all the counselors at Lacamas Counseling. We believe that healthy, warm, and enjoyable collegial relationships allow us greater capacity to meet the needs of our clients. We want intern counselors who also value this collaborative and warm environment. Our kitchen and breakroom are set up to allow for communal breaks and shared meal times.
Room for Autonomy and Individualized Businesses:
Lacamas Counseling allows intern counselors autonomy to create a work-flow and balance that best represents their intentions, values, and style. Each intern can collaboratively decide their hours and schedule; pursue the trainings and certifications that are relevant to their professional interests, passion, and clientele; customize clinical documents; and versatility in deciding how you want to offer client care (i.e. in-office, online, groups).
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