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Internships

Lahai Health’s counseling program seeks to provide a private practice model of therapy within a community mental health setting. Our twofold mission is to train graduate students within a clinical environment and to provide quality mental health counseling to an underserved population. For interns we introduce them to a diverse client population with quality clinical supervision, smaller case loads and help them begin to counsel from a psychodynamic modality. To clients we are one of the few community mental health programs in the region that provides sustained, weekly counseling within psychodynamic approach, with professionally trained, graduate level counselors.

Description of Sites

The Lahai Health is an interdisciplinary clinic providing low-cost medical, dental and counseling services to the community. We have two counseling clinic locations in Lynnwood and North Seattle. Our clients tend to be adults who struggle with basic mental health disorders and common social concerns. Our counseling department stems from a psychodynamic orientation and limits the number of clients in order to provide sustained weekly counseling (typically 6 months to a year in duration). Interns at the clinic work with their clients in ongoing weekly sessions but also gain the experience of working alongside our medical staff in coordination of their clients. Interns are supervised in group and individual supervision. We are not a crisis clinic so our clientele are those who are generally suited for weekly therapy. Robert Deeble / Folktown Counseling LLC is a private practice in Ballard contracted by Lahai Health to create, run and supervise their counseling program. Folktown utilizes a psychodynamic/relational modality and supervises from that perspective.

Coordination of Sites

The Lahai Health internship occurs in Lynnwood hosted at the Community Life Center and in North Seattle hosted by North Seattle Church in Haller Lake. Both sites have onsite medical clinics that allow an agency setting for interns with access to our medical staff.

Hours: Interns at the clinic serve Total 10-15 hours at the clinic per week. This includes (5-10 hrs) direct client hours per week which includes (1 hr) supervision group and (1 hr) individual supervision hour, a (1 hr) pre-clinic meeting with our medical team and admin and documentation (3-5 hrs) per week.

Internship Supervision

Interns receive both group and individual supervision on a weekly basis. Supervision is provided by Robert E. Deeble LMHC and Kelsey Law LMHC (both alumns from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and a state approved clinical supervisors (per WAC 246-809-234) he has been in private practice since 2006. Supervision criteria is in accordance with State law (WAC 246-809-221) with additional areas of study that cater to the specific intern settings. These areas of study are listed below. Supervision of interns at Lahai Health includes the following criteria:
  1. Assessment/diagnosis.
  2. Ethics/law.
  3. Counseling individuals and families.
  4. Psychopathology/abnormal psychology.
  5. Multicultural concerns.
  6. Substance/chemical abuse.
  7. Abusive relationships.
  8. Case management, social work and community resources
  9. Notes and clinical records
  10. Counseling individuals and couples.
  11. Transference / counter-transference observations and utilization in therapy.
  12. Observation of client attachment styles within a sustained therapy environment.
  13. Observation of developmental psychology as it might apply to adults.
  14. Assigned readings.
  15. Billing & Insurance

Intern / Extern Schedule

Our counseling department structures its operational hours around the medical clinic. This allows counselors more access to medical staff in order to discuss concerns they are having with their clients. While there is some flexibility for counselors to manage hours around various work schedules we ask that they try to build their hours around the following time frames. Counselors plan on being at the clinic between 15 hours a week. Hours are flexible with the exception of the following

Haller Lake on Tuesdays

8 am -8:30 pm Pre clinic meeting
Group Supervision Meeting 9:00 am – 10:30
Individual Supervision: TBA 11-5pm
Individual Client hours TBA 11-5pm (per your client assignments).

North Seattle/Lynwood Wednesdays

Pre-clinic Meeting 4:00 pm (optional if you already attend the Lynwood pre clinic meeting)
Individual Client Hours 9-6:00 pm (hours are flexible based on your client assignments)

To apply: Send cover letter, resume and references to: Robert Deeble, 1900 Dock Pl., Suite 3, Seattle WA 98107
or at Robert@folktowncounseling.com