Personal Growth & Identity
A feeling many interns experience when they doubt their abilities despite evidence of competence.
What is imposter syndrome?
If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen—this essential practice protects both you and your client.
What is documentation?
Tangible supports that help students and families meet basic needs like food, housing, or services.
What are resources?
This approach focuses on meeting clients where they are with empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard.
What is client-centered (Rogerian) therapy?
A required document to submit in order to receive your final stipend payment.
What is a timesheet?
A key skill most interns strengthened this year through consultation with Task Supervisor, Intern Coordinator, and increased experience working with with clients and families
What is confidence?
A structured way to create clear, measurable, and achievable client goals.
What are SMART goals?
Work that focuses on influencing policies, systems, or communities beyond individual clients.
What is macro-level work?
This modality helps clients explore ambivalence and strengthen motivation for change.
What is motivational interviewing
A type of group many interns initially feared facilitating but ultimately succeeded in leading.
What is a grief group?
A structured Career Pipeline tool that guides interns on required activities and learning goals throughout the year.
What is the roadmap/workbook?
Language used in notes and sessions that must always be developmentally, culturally, and age appropriate.
What is clinical language?
Issues such as racism, poverty, and inequitable access that impact client outcomes.
What are systemic barriers?
This approach teaches skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
What is DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
A major milestone achieved by all interns by the end of May.
What is completing their first or second year of grad school (or graduating)
A mindset clinicians must foster in both clients and themselves, especially during challenging times.
What is hope?
This helps prevent burnout by defining limits around time, energy, and emotional investment.
What are boundaries?
Current climate impacting clients, families and communities due to policy changes and resource access.
What is the current state of affairs?
This therapy helps clients identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts to change emotions and behaviors.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
This phase of the therapeutic process focuses on preparing clients for closure, reviewing progress, and supporting a healthy ending to the relationship.
What is termination?
Conversations that require vulnerability and skill when addressing difficult or sensitive topics with clients or colleagues.
What are courageous conversations?
These internalized attitudes or stereotypes can impact clinical judgment if not actively addressed.
What is implicit bias?
The stages groups typically move through: forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning.
What are the stages of group development?
This model views the mind as made up of “parts” and focuses on healing internal systems and wounded subparts.
What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Who are the most incredible interns of the 2026–2027 cohort?
Who are Rainer, Kayla, Michelle, Dalila, Isabella, Patti, Cassie, and Allison?