Internship Positions Available

Description

Offering office space, supervision, training and client opportunities for fee split. Looking for qualified MFT Interns or PsyD students interested in both eating disorder treatment and group psychotherapy. Working with children/adolescents and their families, as well as adults and couples. Begin to build your private practice and develop your specialty.

Education/Experience Requirements

Registered Intern number and professional liability insurance. Prior experience in co-leading groups a plus. Interest in working with complex diagnoses and treatment applications. Desire to work in a treatment team, coordinating care with other therapists, doctors, psychiatrists, and nutritionists. Motivation to network and build marketing plan for private practice.

Position Requirements

Minimum one year contract commitment. Available to co-lead 1-2 weekly evening therapy or support groups. Videotaping of client sessions and live supervision within both individual and group supervision settings. Commitment to attending local professional organizations and training opportunities. Weekly work schedule: 10 hours per week minimum.

Contact

Send your cover letter and resume to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call for Susan at 805-987-3162 ext.5.

Interns

Kim Young, M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy, MFTI # 57642

Kim Young is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern at New Beginnings Counseling Center. At New Beginnings Counseling Center Kim works under supervision of Susan Richter, MFT, CEDS providing therapeutic services for clients struggling with issues including, but not limited, to eating disorders, trauma, anxiety, and depression. Kim also co-facilitates a free eating disorder support group with intern Kimberly Harley. Kim is passionate about helping people face the challenges and struggles in their lives for their own personal growth process. She has an in-depth knowledge of the struggles specific to addictions and the twelve step principles. Her passion and long-term goal is to incorporate equine assisted psychotherapy into her work as a therapist. Kim is certified as a mental health professional and equine specialist through EAGALA, Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association.

 Kim obtained her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy at Pepperdine University and is registered with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. During her time at Pepperdine, she provided individual and group therapy for adult men and women at an inpatient drug and alcohol treatment center. After completing her Masters Degree she worked as the primary therapist in the women’s shelter working with domestic violence in addition to seeing clients at the community counseling clinic and children in the elementary schools. Her experience includes working with drug and alcohol addictions, eating disorders, PTSD and trauma, anxiety, and depression.

 “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

            -Henry Ford

Kim Young

805-235-5959

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Kimberly Harley is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern at New Beginnings Counseling Center.  Kimberly has her Masters of Education and Psychology from Pepperdine University and is registered with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.  During her graduate studies, Kimberly provided counseling services to students through the Pepperdine Student Counseling Center.  Kimberly then spent three years with Interface Children and Family Services providing low cost therapy to children and families of Ventura County.  Her experience includes working with youth on probation, victims of crime, providing parenting education and therapy and working with families dealing with grief and trauma. 

At New Beginnings Counseling Center, Kimberly works under the supervision of Susan Richter, MFT providing therapeutic services for clients struggling with eating disorders, depression, anxiety and more.  She provides individual, family and group therapy services. Kimberly also co-facilitates a free Eating Disorders Support Group and an Eating Disorders Skills Group with supervisor Susan Richter.  Her passion is to provide excellence in therapeutic services starting with the therapeutic relationship. 

“Reaching out is the first step.  I look forward to working with you.”

Kimberly Harley, MFTI 50268

(805) 338-8192