Internship Opportunities
We’re dedicated to shaping the next generation of clinicians through expert training and hands-on experience. Our lead clinicians provide top university students with guidance rooted in clinical expertise and state-of-the-art research. Together, we create a learning environment that benefits both our clients and future professionals.
Levels of Practice
We provide each intern with opportunities to grow their expertise across all levels of human interaction.
Specialty Populations
Our interns apply their chosen specialty area to one of our specialized populations, using their specialist knowledge to inform their practice and using practice experience to inform their specialist knowledge.
LGBTQIA+
Gender, romantic, and sexual minorities and their loved ones.
BIPOC
People of color - particularly transracial adoptees and families.
Adoption-Adjacent
Folks impacted by adoption, foster care, donor conception.
Transitional Age
Teens & individuals aged18-25 navigating increasing life pressures.
Skill Domains
We teach our interns skills through three broad domains that are intended to practice, enhance, and demonstrate professional excellency and specialist knowledge.
Specialization Areas
Through specialized training, hands-on experience, and expert supervision, we the rare opportunity for every intern to graduate with both specialist and generalist capacities. We're able to support specialization in these five areas.
Post-Adoption Support
Post-adoption support addresses the lifelong needs and challenges that arise after an adoption, including identity formation, grief, attachment, and family dynamics. Interns learn to support adoptees, first families, and adoptive families with sensitivity, understanding the complexities of adoption.
Supervision
Interns receive ongoing supervision and training from adoption competent clinicians who are adoptees.
Training
Interns receive training in adoption competency, youth liberatory perspectives, genograms, relational trauma, attachment theory, and more.
Thanatology
Thanatology is the study of death, dying, and bereavement, focusing on the emotional, psychological, and social aspects of loss. Interns learn to support youth, individuals, and families facing grief and complicated losses, with particular focus on non-death and non-finite losses and traumatic grief.
Supervision
Interns receive ongoing supervision and training from Certified Thanatologists.
Training
Interns receive training in grief counseling, youth and child grief work, and suicidology. We provide support and mentorship for students seeking thanatology credentialing.
OCD & Anxiety
Our OCD and anxiety specialization focuses on understanding and addressing intrusive thoughts, compulsions, and overwhelming worry. Interns learn evidence-based approaches like ERP and CBT, gaining the skills that helps clients reduce symptoms, build resilience, embrace spontaneity, and reclaim their lives.
Supervision
Supervision is provided by therapists experienced in treating OCD, in addition to consultation groups.
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One intern per year receives a scholarship that allows them entrance into the THRIVE values-based intensive training program for OCD and under the tutelege of Dr. Danielle Henderson, PsyD, LPC and Meghin Lisi, LMFT.
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Our narcissistic abuse recovery specialization focuses on helping clients heal from the traumatic impact of antagonistic relational stress. Interns learn to recognize patterns of abuse, address the impact on self-worth and boundaries, and provide trauma-informed care that empowers clients to reclaim their sense of self.
Supervision
Supervision and training are provided by Certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinicians (NATC).
Training
Interns receive training in "Cluster B" personality disorders, antagonistic relational stress, attachment and relational trauma, the impact of parental and romantic partner narcissistic abuse, and treatment techniques.
Codependency
Our codependency specialization focuses on helping clients break free from patterns of over-reliance, people-pleasing, and enmeshment. Interns learn to support clients in setting healthy boundaries, and cultivate self-worth and autonomy, empowering them to build more balanced and fulfilling relationships.
Supervision
Supervision and training are provided by clinicians with certificates in codependency treatment.
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Interns receive training in identifying codependency patterns, boundary-setting, relational trauma, radical acceptance, emotional autonomy, and related treatment techniques.
Intersectionality
We take a thoughtful, personalized approach to therapy, grounded within integrative, anti-oppressive, and intersectional practice. People’s lives are shaped by a mix of identities, experiences, relationships, and social and political realities. We teach interns to blend the art of therapy, numerous evidence-based techniques, and a nuanced understanding of client care through an intersectional approach to all of our specialty areas and populations.
We're an EPIC Practicum Site
We are an approved EPIC program practicum site through West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Masters of Counseling and Masters of Social Work students who wish to work with transitional age young people through internships at TCTG or other EPIC practicum sites can apply for the EPIC program and receive additional training and a $10,000 grant.​ The EPIC program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Behavioral Health Workforce and Education Training.