Scarlet Road provides competitive graduate school clinical counseling internships. These placements are meant to provide current graduates with experiential opportunities for professional growth and development with survivors of sexual exploitation. Our hope is to provide an educational, impactful, and fun learning environment that will influence future generations of practitioners. Interns will have the opportunity to learn about the ways sexual exploitation reveals itself within our community, how it impacts our participants, and the best practices for how to best tend to survivors. As part of this process, interns will be expected to facilitate multiple individual therapy sessions each week with participants, engage in weekly one-on-one clinical supervision, attend a monthly case consultation with fellow interns, and facilitate therapeutic groups. Interns will also be expected to attend an orientation and training on how sexual exploitation appears locally and the traumatic effects of survivor experiences.
Scarlet Road is accepting internship applicants currently in a Master’s of Counseling or other practice-oriented degree program. Due to the marginalization, vulnerability, and lack of safety that the survivors of Scarlet Road experience, we seek to provide secure and consistent care to our participants. Part of this care is around continuity and consistency; therefore, interns are expected to commit a minimum of 1 (one) year to walking alongside our participants. Scarlet Road will not take short-term students unless they agree to participate in a project without direct client contact, or in a research project with limited client interaction.
Training Goals/Objectives for Interns:
- Grow in knowledge of the national and local population experiencing sexual exploitation.
- Continue to develop a clinical mind and conceptualization of what client care, health, and wellness can look like.
- Examine internal, worldview, and narrative biases within a secure and safe team
- Further develop clinical skills and conduct oneself with professional integrity.
- Grow a deeper understanding of race, social justice, oppression, and privilege, and the ways these categories could impact survivors.
- Learn how to incorporate self-care strategies into clinical practice.
Relevant Administrative Policies and Procedures:
- Each potential candidate will submit a resume, cover letter, and complete Scarlet Road’s online application.
- If selected, they will participate in an initial interview and possibly be invited to a second interview.
- The candidate will undergo a background check and reference check
- The candidate will participate in Scarlet Road’s volunteer training program and onboarding process.
Expectations of the Student:
- Commit to a 12-month internship placement
- Be timely, reliable, communicative, and commit to professional development and consultation.
- Fulfill duties and responsibilities as outlined by Scarlet Road, the sending graduate school program, and the Washington State Department of Health.
- Uphold ethical and legal requirements and confidentiality.
Expectations of the Supervisor/Supervision:
- Provide trauma-informed clinical supervision
- Provide ongoing professional feedback and guidance to perform tasks and develop as a professional, as well as cover competencies such as note-taking, consultation, etc.
- Guide the student toward the acquisition of specific skills and knowledge related to working with survivors of sexual exploitation.
If you are interested in this internship opportunity, please complete the application by clicking the link below.