Clinical Internships at Ignite Counseling
Ignite Counseling Colorado offers graduate students a comprehensive practicum and internship experience. Our program provides hands-on clinical training in a supportive, trauma-informed private practice setting, with opportunities for both in-person and telehealth services. Interns gain valuable experience in individual, couples, and group counseling while working with diverse populations.
Thank you for your interest. Our internship positions are currently full, and we are not accepting new applications at this time. Please feel free to check back later for future openings.
Now accepting applications for Spring 2027 internships (January 2027 start):
Practicum-to-Internship Position Summary
Throughout their time at Ignite, students will be expected to perform supervised co-facilitation of group counseling, intake and individual counseling sessions, and community outreach. Students will also perform duties including intakes, assessments, and appropriate referrals, and may perform other related tasks that are a part of the practice’s operation. All practicum and internship positions are unpaid with an emphasis on clinical work going towards graduation from an accredited program.
Work is supervised by professional staff, and individual clinical work is supervised by a licensed clinician and Approved Clinical Supervisor.
Practicum-to-Internship Position Summary
Requirements & Qualifications
- Note: We currently only take students from Regis University
- Full practicum through Internship commitment.
- Minimum of 10 clinical hours per week (Internship).
- Must be open to work both in person and via telehealth
- High interest in treatment of OCD and trauma
- Co-facilitate, administration, and prep for group therapy and workshops
- Conduct intakes for groups and counseling services
- See individual clients
- Keep track of hours as they accrue, per the requirements of the academic program
- Participate in consult, supervision, training, and presentations provided
- Provide valid driver’s license and other forms of identification
- Must pass a background check
- Must adhere to HIPAA and field ethics, regulations, and rules
- Other operational and clinical duties as assigned
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Knowledge and basic skills in counseling practices and methods
- Ability to plan, implement, evaluate and report activities conducted
- Effective communication in writing and preparing written and electronic documents
- Ability to communicate orally, both in person, video, and telephone
- Ability to travel to counseling sites
- Strong desire to actively participate in growing caseload
- Ability to establish rapport with others as a requisite for healthy and therapeutic relationships
- Ability to present oneself in an appropriately personable and professional manner to clients, vendors, and staff
- Ability to receive and utilize constructive feedback regarding performance, presentation, and relationships with others
- Ability to be flexible as circumstances warrant
- Ability to effectively weigh and evaluate personal needs, client needs, and the aims and policies of the practice and to respond and negotiate these competing needs as appropriate
- Ability to remain calm and supportive in psychological emergencies and/or crises when provided with appropriate supervision and direction
- An enhanced level of self-awareness as to how you relate to others and an ability to effectively modulate this personal style as conditions warrant
- Ability to communicate via computer email and online
What Ignite Offers the Intern
- Top-notch specialized supervision from highly qualified Supervisors.
- Access to free nationally-accredited CEUs through Mindfully Academy, as well as internal training from Ignite clinicians.
- Opportunity to learn in-demand skills not acquired in graduate school, including specialized modalities for treating OCD and trauma.
- A beautiful, professional healing space, HIPAA-compliant online counseling platform, email address, electronic health record, marketing support.
Cohort Application Dates:
Fall 2026 (August 2026 start):
Thank you for your interest. Our internship positions are currently full, and we are not accepting new applications at this time. Please feel free to check back later for future openings.