Therapist Internship * Unpaid*

At First Steps Recovery, we don’t just offer jobs — we offer purpose. As a leading, accredited behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment facility, our work changes lives daily. If you're driven by compassion, grounded in integrity, and thrive in a supportive, recovery-focused environment, you're exactly who we’re looking for.

When you join First Steps Recovery, you become part of a tight-knit, multidisciplinary team that values empathy, growth, and evidence-based care. Whether you’re working directly with clients or behind the scenes, every role here matters — and every day is an opportunity to make a difference.

POSITION SUMMARY

**Unpaid Therapist Internship**

Therapists are responsible for coordinating and providing individual, group therapy and biopsychosocial assessment services to patients as well as group, individual and family counseling for patients within the facility. The Therapist provides development of client resources, vocational counseling, discharge/continuing care planning, and placement of clients. The therapist works with the treatment team to plan and coordinate the client’s progress through the continuum of care.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions:

• Uphold and enforce First Steps Recovery standards, policies and procedures, client rights, and professional code of ethics and conduct.
• Ability to utilize agency comprehensive assessment tools in KIPU (Biopsychosocial, Initial Treatment Plan, Individual Therapy Note, Transfer Note, Discharge Planning upon admission).
• Identify and prioritize individual needs and problems of the patient.
• Prepare comprehensive interpretive clinical summaries (as seen in KIPU).
• Develop person-centered care plans, including prioritized problem lists, SNAP, client-reported goals, measurable and achievable objectives, and interventions.
• Provide individual and group therapy sessions utilizing Evidence Based Practices.
• Document client progress toward treatment plan goals and objectives in SOAP progress notes.
• Prepare effective care level step-down Transition notes.
• Develop solid discharge plans and summaries for assigned caseload.
• Prepare clinical documentation accurately and within agency time frames.
• Intervene during crisis intervention situations.
• Cooperate with health insurance clinical utilization reviews by providing detailed Clinical Notes to assist with UR’s.
• Participate in weekly Clinical Treatment team meetings with other team members.
• Participate in the agency’s Orientation training, staff meetings, and in-service training.
• Provide accurate assessment and referral when appropriate. Provide information to Probation Officers, Lawyers and Spouses/Family Members on the client’s behalf.
• Provide appropriate treatment interventions relative to the specific needs of each client.
• Provide for discharge planning, contacting referring agency as needed.
• Adhere to code of ethics, legal aspects of clinical practice, professional standards, duty to warn, abuse and neglect reporting policies and procedures, and exercise professionalism at all times.
• Exercise awareness in cultural competency, client satisfaction, quality of services, client needs, and overall health and safety staff and clients.