Master-Level Clinical Internship

Aspire Health and Community Services • Quincy, MA

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About The Position

Aspire Health and Community Services is seeking dedicated and compassionate graduate students pursuing clinical field placement hours toward a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling, Social Work, Music Therapy, or Speech-Language Pathology. Interns gain hands-on experience alongside experienced clinicians in a community-based behavioral health organization serving individuals and families across the South Shore. Interns can develop clinical skills, deepen their understanding of integrated behavioral health services, and contribute to the care of clients.

Clinical internships are offered in several programs. Crisis Services includes Mobile Crisis Intervention, which provides emergency psychiatric assessment, intervention, and stabilization for people of all ages experiencing behavioral health crises, and Adult Community Crisis Stabilization, a 10-bed short-term inpatient program for adults providing intensive psychiatric support and therapeutic services as an alternative to hospitalization. These programs accept master’s students in social work and mental health counseling.

The Outpatient Clinic provides urgent and ongoing mental health and substance use services through a centralized Community Behavioral Health Center, serving individuals and families throughout the South Shore. It accepts master’s students in social work and mental health counseling. Discovery Day Treatment is an adult psychiatric day treatment program offering therapeutic group treatment and care coordination through an interdisciplinary behavioral health team; it accepts master’s students in social work.

Adult Community Clinical Services supports adults referred by the Department of Mental Health who have severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or complex health needs. Services focus on rehabilitation, recovery, and skill development to support community living and independence. The program accepts master’s students in social work and mental health counseling.

Step One Early Intervention is a family-centered, community-based program for children ages 0–3 with developmental needs. It partners with families to assess strengths and needs, create individualized plans, and provide developmental, educational, and family support services. It accepts master’s students in social work, mental health counseling, music therapy, and speech-language pathology.

In-Home Therapy provides family-centered behavioral health services using a family systems approach. Services are delivered in the community and focus on improving family communication and functioning, safety planning, skill-building, and coordination across community, educational, and medical supports. It accepts master’s students in social work and mental health counseling.

Aspire’s mission is to support recovery, resilience, and hope through inclusive, community-based behavioral health services. The organization is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and equal opportunity, and seeks to create an environment where individuals feel respected, supported, and valued.

Requirements

• Be a graduate student pursuing clinical field placement hours toward a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling, Social Work, Music Therapy, or Speech-Language Pathology.
• The degree discipline accepted varies by program: Crisis Services, Outpatient Clinic, Adult Community Clinical Services, and In-Home Therapy accept social work and mental health counseling students; Discovery Day Treatment accepts social work students; Step One Early Intervention accepts students in social work, mental health counseling, music therapy, and speech-language pathology.

Responsibilities

• Gain hands-on clinical experience alongside experienced clinicians.
• Develop clinical skills and deepen understanding of integrated behavioral health services.
• Contribute to services supporting individuals and families in the community.
• Depending on placement: provide or support psychiatric assessment, intervention, and stabilization; therapeutic services; group treatment and care coordination; rehabilitation, recovery, and skill development; developmental, educational, and family support; or family-centered behavioral health services, safety planning, and coordination of care.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern