Clinical Intern - Behavioral Health; unpaid

Clinical Intern - Behavioral Health (unpaid) at Summit Stone Health Partners summary:

This internship position at Summit Stone Health Partners offers hands-on experience in behavioral health clinical services, including assessment, diagnosis, therapy, crisis intervention, and case management for clients with mental illness and substance use disorders. The role involves collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and documenting treatment plans in compliance with agency and regulatory standards. It is designed for undergraduate or graduate students pursuing degrees in counseling, psychology, or social work seeking pre-professional, unpaid field placement experience.

Overview

Summit Stone Health Partners seeks Clinical Interns to help us in our endeavor to build the healthiest community in the nation … one person at a time.

The Mission:

At Summit Stone, we strive to foster trust, empower recovery, and inspire hope to strengthen and enrich our Northern Colorado community.

We need your help to make this vision a reality.

We are building a team who believes in providing crucial services at crucial times, helping the people in our community at their most vulnerable — particularly those who are often overlooked and underserved.

We Embrace Our Diversity

Come As You Are:

A core value here at Summit Stone.

We want you to be your authentic self while at work, so we welcome and actively seek team members of different backgrounds, identities and experiences. Summit Stone is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment, honoring each individual's whole-self by embracing differences in race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic status, language and the inherent intersections of many different identities.

We invite everyone to share our journey and are proudly an equal opportunity employer.

Experiences and Backgrounds We Look For

If this sounds like your calling, then we want to help you succeed, grow, and thrive at Summit Stone.

• Location and hours : variable based on internship requirements
• Dates : 2026 - Winter/Spring Semester

What You’ll Do:

Interns provide services to Summit Stone for the specific purpose of gaining pre-professional experience and knowledge in accordance with the requirements of a higher education institution. Interns are seeking to successfully complete their field placement from an undergraduate or graduate behavioral health program in a co-occurring clinical setting offered through Summit Stone Health Partners without compensation. Interns may provide on-going clinical assessment, diagnosis, individual, family, and group therapy, crisis intervention, and case management services for both child and adult clients with mild to severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or disabilities.

Participate in weekly supervision, which consists of a minimum of 1 hour per week. Develop, document, and monitor treatment plans. Monitor and document treatment services, interactions, and progress. Ensure that documentation and maintenance of client charts meet agency, state, federal, etc. audit standards. Collaborate with internal (i.e. medical, psychiatric, clinical, case management, peers, etc.) and external (i.e. referral agencies, family, friends, etc.)

treatment team members and/or supports around a client’s treatment plan goals, treatment, and treatment progress. Coordinate with collaterals and/or partner agencies during and after a client’s treatment to ensure sustainable support and step-down services are in place.

Essential duties:

• Provide direct clinical services to clients as assigned by Administrative/Clinical Supervisor via telephone, video, or face-to-face.
• On-going assessment and treatment of client mental health and substance use disorder symptoms in a variety of situations.
• Facilitate a wide variety of individual, family, and group therapy, crisis, and case management services with the purpose of psychoeducation and ameliorating mental health and/or substance use disorder symptoms and meeting client treatment plan goals. Further, prevent deterioration, decompensation, and/or hospitalization.
• Implement a wide variety of evidence-based…