🎓 Clinical Internships
📍 Hamden, CT | 🕒 Internship (Hours/Schedule Varies)
Grow Your Clinical Skills While Supporting Youth & Families
The Children’s Center of Hamden is seeking compassionate and motivated Clinical Interns (MFT, LMSW, and LPC track) to join our Clinical Services Department. In this role, you’ll gain hands-on experience providing supervised clinical support to children, adolescents, and families in a mission-driven setting. You’ll participate in assessment, treatment planning, individual and family sessions, and documentation while learning best practices in trauma-informed, culturally responsive care. This internship is an excellent opportunity for graduate-level students working toward licensure who are looking to deepen their clinical skillset, strengthen professional identity, and make a meaningful impact.
Why Join Us?
At The Children’s Center of Hamden, you’ll be part of a collaborative, supportive, and mission-driven team invested in your learning and growth. Our interns receive meaningful clinical exposure, high-quality supervision, and the opportunity to contribute to real work that supports the well-being of youth and families. You’ll gain experience in a setting that values trauma-informed care, teamwork, and professional development—while building hours and skills toward your future career.
📚 Professional Growth & Development – Supportive supervision, training sessions, and exposure to multidisciplinary care to help you build toward licensure.
💙 Supportive, Mission-Driven Culture – Join a collaborative team where your work truly makes a difference for youth and families.
What You’ll Do
As Clinical Intern, you will:
- Provide supervised clinical services (individual, family, and/or group) aligned with program needs
- Support intake/assessment processes and contribute to treatment planning
- Participate in clinical team meetings, case conferences, and consultation
- Complete timely documentation in accordance with agency standards and confidentiality requirements
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary staff to support client progress and continuity of care
- Engage in supervision and professional development activities to build competency and meet program requirements
What We’re Looking For
- Current graduate student in a COAMFTE-accredited MFT program or CACREP-aligned counseling program (LPC track), or CSWE-accredited counseling program (LMSW track),
- Strong interest in working with children/adolescents and families
- Commitment to ethical practice, reliability, and professionalism
- Ability to learn and apply clinical feedback in supervision
- Basic comfort with documentation and use of electronic records (training provided as needed)
Physical & Work Environment Requirements
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, and move throughout the program/site as needed for sessions, meetings, and client support.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced clinical setting with frequent interpersonal interaction and occasional high-stimulation environments (noise, interruptions, or emotional intensity).
- Ability to maintain attention and composure when exposed to sensitive clinical content, including crises or challenging client behaviors (with supervision and support).
- Potential exposure to bodily fluids and other environmental hazards in residential, school-based, or milieu settings.
Join Our Team
If you’re a graduate-level clinician-in-training who is dependable, compassionate, and eager to learn, we want to hear from you. Apply today to build your clinical skills through supervised experience—and help make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, adolescents, and families.
📌 The Children’s Center of Hamden is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Current graduate student in a COAMFTE-accredited Marriage and Family Therapy program, CACREP-aligned counseling program for the LPC track, or CSWE-accredited program for the LMSW track
- Strong interest in working with children, adolescents, and families
- Commitment to ethical practice, reliability, and professionalism
- Ability to learn and apply clinical feedback in supervision
- Basic comfort with documentation and electronic records
What We Do
For more than 190 years, The Children's Center of Hamden has supported children, adolescents, and families through times of need. Today, we are a comprehensive behavioral health, psychiatric, educational, and family support organization serving communities across Connecticut. Our continuum of care helps children and young adults navigate emotional and behavioral health challenges, trauma, substance use, learning needs, and barriers to stability at home, in school, and in their communities. Our Services • Outpatient Services — Flexible behavioral health treatment for children and teens experiencing emotional or behavioral challenges. • Substance Use Treatment & Recovery — Evidence-based support for youth and young adults navigating substance use and recovery. • Extended Day Treatment (EDT) — Structured afterschool and summer behavioral health services for youth who need more support than weekly therapy. • Psychiatric Residential Treatment (PRTF) — Short-term, comprehensive residential care for youth experiencing acute mental health challenges. • Whitney Hall School — A state-approved K–12 special education school integrating academics, behavioral health, and individualized support. • Quality Parenting Center — A welcoming space that helps children and families in foster care maintain and strengthen family connections. Our Approach We provide family-centered, trauma-informed care in safe, structured environments that help youth build skills, strengthen relationships, and move forward with confidence. Who We Partner With We work closely with families, school districts, behavioral health providers, healthcare organizations, state agencies, and community partners across Connecticut because lasting progress happens together. Accredited & Licensed The Children's Center of Hamden is accredited by The Joint Commission and licensed by the State of Connecticut. Whitney Hall School is approved by the Connecticut State Department of Education.
