Learn the work by doing the work.

Graduate school teaches you a lot.

Internship is where it starts to become real.

At Chapter & Page Counseling, we want interns to leave feeling more confident, more competent, and more prepared for the realities of clinical practice than when they arrived.

That means you won’t spend your entire internship watching from the sidelines.

You’ll have opportunities to build clinical skills, work with real clients, learn from experienced clinicians, receive supervision, and understand how a modern behavioral-health practice actually functions.

We take training seriously.

Who We Work With

Chapter & Page Counseling serves children, teens, adults, couples, and families.

Our clinicians work with concerns such as:

• Autism
• ADHD
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Trauma
• Emotional regulation
• Family conflict
• Parenting concerns
• Executive-functioning difficulties
• Social skills
• School concerns
• Life transitions
• Relationship difficulties
• Neurodivergence across the lifespan

Depending on your program, placement, training level, and supervisor, interns may have opportunities to work with a variety of populations and clinical concerns.

More Than Traditional Talk Therapy

If you want to work with children and families, you need more than a chair and a list of questions.

Our practice uses a wide range of developmentally appropriate and experiential approaches, including:

• Play therapy
• Sandtray
• Therapeutic games
• Creative and expressive interventions
• Family-based work
• Parent support
• Neurodiversity-affirming approaches
• Executive-functioning support
• Social-skills interventions
• Group work

Interns may also have opportunities to observe or learn about psychological testing, autism services, medication management, school advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration depending on their role and training plan.

We Expect You to Learn

We know interns are still learning.

That is the point of internship.

You are not expected to walk in knowing everything.

What we do expect is curiosity, professionalism, openness to feedback, follow-through, and a willingness to grow.

You should be able to ask questions.

You should be able to say, “I don’t know.”

And you should have supervisors who help you figure out what comes next.

Supervision Matters

Good supervision should be more than:

“Any crises this week?”

We want supervision to help you develop your clinical judgment.

Depending on your discipline and placement, supervision may include:

• Case conceptualization
• Treatment planning
• Ethics
• Documentation
• Diagnosis
• Boundaries
• Family dynamics
• Play therapy
• Sandtray
• Neurodiversity-affirming care
• Countertransference
• Clinical decision-making
• Difficult conversations
• Professional identity development

We want interns to understand not only what they are doing, but why they are doing it.

Clinical Experience

Internship placements may include opportunities for:

• Individual counseling
• Child and adolescent therapy
• Family counseling
• Parent consultation
• Group counseling
• Social-skills groups
• Play-based interventions
• Intake assessments
• Treatment planning
• Progress notes and documentation
• Case consultation
• Community outreach
• Interdisciplinary collaboration

Specific responsibilities depend on your graduate program requirements, scope of practice, experience, supervisor, and site needs.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Training

Chapter & Page works extensively with autistic and ADHD clients and their families.

We do not teach interns that the goal of treatment is to make neurodivergent people appear more neurotypical.

We focus on understanding the person.

That means considering:

• Communication differences
• Sensory needs
• Executive functioning
• Emotional regulation
• Autistic burnout
• Anxiety
• Social connection
• Family systems
• Individual strengths
• Accessibility
• Client-defined goals

If you want experience working with neurodivergent children, teens, adults, and families, this can be an important part of your training here.

You’ll Learn the Business Side, Too

Clinical training matters, but therapists also need to understand how behavioral health actually works.

Interns may gain exposure to:

• Intake workflows
• Scheduling
• Documentation standards
• Insurance processes
• Ethical billing practices
• Referral coordination
• Community partnerships
• Group development
• Professional marketing
• Practice operations

You don’t have to become a practice owner.

But understanding how care gets delivered makes you a stronger clinician.

Who Might Be a Good Fit?

You may be a good fit for Chapter & Page if you are:

• Enrolled in an eligible graduate counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or related behavioral-health program
• Looking for meaningful clinical experience
• Interested in children, adolescents, families, or neurodivergent populations
• Open to supervision and feedback
• Reliable and organized
• Comfortable asking questions
• Willing to learn
• Able to communicate professionally
• Interested in being part of a collaborative team

Experience with play therapy, autism, ADHD, or children is welcome but not always required.

We can teach skills.

We cannot teach someone to care about the work.

Internship Is a Professional Role

Our interns are part of the clinical team.

That means we expect professionalism.

Interns are expected to:

• Protect client confidentiality
• Maintain appropriate boundaries
• Complete documentation on time
• Attend supervision
• Communicate when they need help
• Follow ethical and legal requirements
• Respect clients, families, coworkers, and supervisors
• Follow through on commitments

You will be supported while you learn, but you will also be given meaningful responsibility.

Your Internship Should Help You Become a Better Clinician

We want you to leave with more than completed hours.

We want you to leave with:

Clinical confidence.

Better judgment.

Stronger case conceptualization skills.

Experience working with real people and real families.

A clearer professional identity.

And hopefully, a much better idea of the kind of clinician you want to become.

Interested in Interning With Us?

We accept internship inquiries based on current supervision capacity, program requirements, placement needs, and available clinical opportunities.

If you are interested, please send us:

• Your résumé or CV
• Graduate program and university
• Degree you are pursuing
• Required internship/practicum hours
• Expected start and end dates
• Any university/site requirements
• Populations or specialties you are especially interested in
• A little about why Chapter & Page interests you

Apply for an Internship Email: info@chapterandpagecounseling.com

Come Learn With Us.

You don’t need to be a finished therapist yet.

You just need to be ready to become one.