No salary listed — similar Counselor roles pay ~$74k (median of 300 jobs)

7.2/10 work-life score · Top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,658 active roles in this specialty

INTERN - THERAPIST

Counselor Top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling)Internship
Posted 5mo ago

About the Role

Internship for counseling students. Work with youth ages 12-17. Guaranteed hours for degree completion. Learn therapeutic treatment on-site.

Join Methodist Children's Home as a Therapist Intern – Counseling Student in United States.

Work Schedule

  • Internship position.
  • No explicit call, weekend, or night shift information provided.

Apply to join Methodist Children's Home as a Therapist Intern – Counseling Student.

Key Responsibilities

The counseling intern will assist in providing individual and group therapy sessions based on treatment plans developed by the assigned therapist. This role is designed for learning therapeutic treatment methods while working directly with clients.

Requirements

The applicant must be an empathetic, passionate, and caring counseling student intern seeking guaranteed hours towards degree completion. The role involves working with clients aged 12 to 17 years old.

Key Skills

EmpathyPassionCaringTherapeutic TreatmentIndividual TherapyGroup Therapy

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates INTERN - THERAPIST at Methodist Children's Home a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,658 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 52% are remote, 22% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Louisiana is 88.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.8% of Louisiana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Position Insights

AI ANALYSIS

This role scores 7.2/10 on work-life balance for Counselor roles.

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