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Our Internship program is for Psychology graduates wanting to apply to HCPC recognised Psychology Doctorates (or BABCP accredited CBT Courses)
Start date: October each year
Duration: 1 year
Number of places: 1-3 places per year
Time commitment required: 4 hours per week
Location: Working from home or our offices in Ireland (depending on your preference).
Our internship is a highly sought after program where we receive a large number of applications from candidates wanting to gain valuable work experience in a private psychological therapy clinic. It is a mutually beneficial program where you will gain valuable experience while helping out with important tasks at the clinic. We appreciate that you might have some questions regarding what you would be doing as an intern at the clinic, therefore the following page contains information regarding what to expect if you are offered a place on our honorary internship program.
Success rate: We have a 100% success rate at getting individuals who complete our internship program on to a Postgraduate training program in the UK. Since our internship started we have helped 7 individuals get on to Doctorate programs in either Counselling Psychology or Clinical Psychology and 1 individual get on to a BABCP accredited CBT Postgraduate program.
This internship role is designed as a stepping stone to a Doctoral Program in Psychology (leading to HCPC registration), a PGDip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (leading to BABCP accreditation) or other relevant Postgraduate Postgraduate programs which lead to a UK accreditation as a Psychologist or Psychological Therapist. This role will allow you to gain training, experience and supervision in the two main therapy models – CBT & Psychodynamic therapy. You will gain face to face experience providing clients with psychological assessments and psychological therapy using evidenced based techniques and the gold standard protocol. This junior Therapist role will involve encouraging individuals who are interested in therapy to engage in the services we offer and helping them receive the very best service from the clinic. The role will involve guiding people to the right type of therapy and you will be provided with full training. You will interact with people who have anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addictions, relationship issues, low-self esteem and many more conditions.
As an intern you will receive training on how to speak with the numerous new clients that call and email in on a daily basis, through either our scheduled 15 minute free telephone consultations or ad hoc.
When clients call in you will be expected to present both a professional manner, representative of a private clinic, and a warm, comforting demeanour, representative of a therapeutic clinic. This duality is particularly important, as you will be the first contact for new enquiries, many of which will be coming from people that have mental health issues and are turning to us for help.
Your role over the phones can often be to offer empathy and sometimes just information about particular assessments or how the therapeutic process works. As such, you must exhibit exemplary listening skills.
Once you have gained an understanding of our systems, you will then be able to book clients in to see our senior Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychotherapists – your training and line manager will give you the confidence to know which is the correct practitioner.
Speaking with existing clients can be a large proportion of the role. This can be assisting in administrative tasks, such as, changing appointment days/times, scheduling new appointments, handling general client queries and complaints, etc.
Seeing clients is something that we take very seriously, with great care and consideration going into the decision of allowing an intern to do so. As such, it is not a guaranteed part of the role for all interns – this is judged on a case-by-case basis.
At the clinic we offer a low-cost therapy service provided by Psychological Counsellors, this assists us in our motto of never turning someone away for therapy. As an intern, provided you are registered or able to register with a professional body, you will have the opportunity of seeing clients face-to-face.
As a part of seeing clients, you will be required to see a supervisor individually who will assist you in your client interactions. You will be able to select your supervisor from our internal practitioner team, provided they agree.
We also offer group supervision whereby you can discuss your cases with your peers and with a senior member of the Therapists. Along with varying topics to better your knowledge in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other Psychotherapeutic approaches.
How we will ensure you get face to face client experience through this program:
In order to take your application to the next stage, we ask you to send through your CV and record a brief 2-5 minute self-filmed video.
What to include in the video
Introducing yourself:
We don’t mind about the picture quality of the video. The video is for recruitment purposes only and will be destroyed after recruitment and will not be shared anywhere. The video will determine whether you are invited to the next stage of interviews.
There can be a bit of a delay in between recruitment as we only have a limited number of interview slots available, therefore please be patient with our response as we will get back to successful candidates in due course.
We encourage interested candidates to check out our Podcast/Youtube channel where individuals are interviewed about their life stories. In these podcasts/videos you will see examples of how Psychologists tend to interview individuals in order to gain insight along with examples of active listening.
Please send internship applications here.
