The internship program at Southern Utah University Counseling & Psychological Services (SUU CAPS) offers a wealth of training and clinical opportunities, a supportive environment, and the flexibility to tailor your internship experience. Interns are an integral part of CAPS. They provide individual, group, and couple’s counseling, psychological assessment, crisis intervention, outreach, and consultation. Interns may pursue additional training/experience in a variety of other areas such as career counseling, biofeedback, teaching, and cross-campus collaboration.
SUU CAPS consists of a small team of diversely credentialed and experienced professionals, each of whom are involved in training. We put great effort into supporting interns as they hone generalist skills and also grow specialist skills related to collegiate and rural/underserved mental healthcare. Southern Utah is a beautiful and remote place to live. Cedar City is nestled against tall mountains and is near multiple National and State Parks. If you like hiking, mountain biking, skiing, or sitting mindfully in the wonders of nature, this is a great location to spend a year.
We employ a developmental-mentorship-practitioner training model. The guiding principle is that learning is a developmental process that is dependent on support, challenge, feedback, and role modeling. Staff members serve as mentors to interns as they cultivate, curate, and consolidate their professional identity. The practitioner orientation of the internship program emphasizes the importance of applying existing knowledge and skills. Learning is continual, and accumulates through reflective clinical practice during the internship year.
The overarching goal of CAPS’ internship program is to prepare interns for competent entry-level psychological practice. Upon completion of the internship, many pursue positions in university counseling centers, private practice, or other outpatient mental healthcare settings.
We invite you to learn more at: https://www.suu.edu/caps/internship/