Counseling Internships at Soileau Partners Psychotherapy
Interested in doing your Clinical Internship at Soileau Partners Psychotherapy? You are in the right place!
We currently partner with over a dozen graduate counseling programs in Kansas City and beyond and are always open to exploring new partnerships to help facilitate mental health counseling internships.
Check out the frequently asked questions below.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at Partners@soileaupartnerspsychotherapy.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Expectations:
- Facilitate individual and psychoanalytic group therapy sessions. Couples therapy sessions are available for MFT students upon request.
- Participate in one hour of weekly supervision with a clinically licensed professional counselor and certified psychotherapist.
Benefits:
- Opportunities to participate in weekend training experiences, fellowships, and additional clinical consultation groups are available.
- On-call support for any issues that surface during your workday in real-time.
- Opportunities for professional development via blog writing and group therapy development.
- To ensure students are prepared for board exams, board exam study materials and additional flexibility in scheduling during internship two are offered.
Clinical Mental Health students will be provided with a diverse selection of individuals, ranging from adolescents to seniors, and marriage and Family Therapist students will be provided with a diverse selection of individuals, couples, and families.
During the practicum semester, students will not be asked to conduct new patient consultations or work with scheduling new patients. Once students enter their internship, they will be provided training and support to begin conducting new patient consultations and manage their weekly clinical calendar.
If applicants are interested in working with specific types of patients, we ask that this be communicated during the interview process.
All of our interns will be able to help develop and facilitate or co-facilitate group therapy.
We anticipate adding two to three new interns in 2025. If you have additional questions about openings, please contact our Clinical Director, Jon Soileau.
We request that you submit a current professional resume and curriculum vitae. We usually take 3-5 business days to review each applicant's information. Once your information is reviewed, we will contact you to do a brief interview by phone, and based on your responses, you may be contacted for a final, in-person interview.
Most of our student interns have worked full-time during their internship and have had no struggles with exceeding hour requirements for both practicum and internship. We seek to be flexible to meet the needs of our students when special circumstances arise.
During your phone interview, we will discuss days and times available for seeing patients. The requirements are that you have at least 1 (4 hours) evening or weekend available every week, attend the individual supervision meetings, and fulfill all of your graduate program’s hour expectations.
Counseling Internship Candidate
Qualifications
• Working towards a graduate degree and in good standing with an accredited graduate-level Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or Psychiatry program and has completed all requirements for site placement.
• Strong independent learning skills and intentional about personal and professional growth.
• Ability to fulfill graduate coursework and practicum placement requirements without compromising commitment to patient care.
• Committed to ethical values and principles and able to integrate them into clinical services.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to establish rapport with patients.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and under the supervision of licensed counselors.
• Willingness to receive constructive feedback and demonstrate personal and professional growth.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and ethical standards in all aspects of work.
• Naturally analytically inclined with awareness and attunement to relational affect, non-verbal communication and body language.
Responsibilities
• The Counseling Internship Candidate will work directly with patients facing mental health challenges, providing essential therapeutic support.
• The Counseling Internship Candidate will Provide high-quality patient-centered care.
• Under the supervision of a licensed clinical therapist, the Counseling Internship Candidate will provide individual, (some) couples, and group therapies following the intern's skills/training.
• The Counseling Internship Candidate will participate in weekly supervision to complete learning contract requirements.
• This position provides a unique opportunity for Counseling Interns to learn and practice clinical and trauma-informed, attachment-based, psychoanalytic methods in a relational private practice setting.
Benefits
• Clinical supervision and professional mentorship with a psychoanalytically minded and clinically experienced Clinically Licensed Counselor and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
• Clinical experience within a private practice setting specializing in in-depth work using Psychoanalytic, Attachment, Experiential, and Internal Family Systems approaches to individuals, couples, and families.
• Community collaboration with practitioners and interns within our practice.
• Guaranteed direct clinical hours (Individual, Couples, and Group) and professional hours.
• A practice culture rooted in learning, growth, community and compassion for each other.
• Open door policy to your Supervisor and the Practice Clinical Director.
• Telehealth option (7 days a week)
• Business Mentorship for our clinical interns includes assistance with their graduation preparation (board exam study materials, state licensure preparation and planning, in-house clinical supervision, planning for continuing client's continuity of care, etc.) and post-graduation business planning and clinical development (business development and clinical goals, fee structure development, client caseload development/marketing, continuing education recommendations for both development and CE's, etc.).
• Post-graduation career opportunities and clinical supervision within Soileau Partners Psychotherapy. Our organization is committed to continuously investing in business planning, operations, development, growth, and strategic partnerships to ensure industry-leading patient care and position our organization, clinical associates, and clinical interns for a growth-driven, sustainable, and prosperous future.
Counseling Internship applications are underway for 2025.
Counseling Internship Candidate Application
If you're interested in a counseling internship with Soileau Partners Psychotherapy, provide the information below and attach a combined Curriculum Vitae and Updated Resume (as one file). Please note that applications received without a combined Curriculum Vitae and Updated Resume will not be considered.
Soileau Partners Psychotherapy
104 W. 9th Street Ste. 205A, Kansas City, Missouri, 64105