Let’s learn together.

At Little Seed Wellness, we believe becoming a therapist is about more than completing required clinical hours. Our internship program is designed to help emerging clinicians develop their clinical skills, professional identity, confidence, and capacity to provide thoughtful, culturally responsive care.

Our internship is intentionally structured around learning, relationship, reflection, and clinical practice. Interns are welcomed as developing professionals and are given opportunities to learn alongside experienced clinicians while gradually taking on greater responsibility in their clinical work.

Please note: Our next application period opens in Feburary of 2027.

What Makes Our Internship Different?

Our program combines direct clinical experience with structured supervision, consultation, education, and professional development. Interns receive support throughout the year rather than being expected to navigate clinical work independently.

Interns participate in:

  • Individual Clinical Supervision Weekly supervision focused on clinical development, documentation, case conceptualization, ethical practice, risk assessment, and professional growth.

  • Weekly Seminar A dedicated space for interns to learn together, discuss clinical experiences, explore therapeutic approaches, and develop their professional identities.

  • Group Consultation & Case Discussion Opportunities to learn from other clinicians and interns while developing skills in collaborative case conceptualization and treatment planning.

  • Clinical Education Structured learning opportunities that connect classroom knowledge with real-world clinical practice.

  • Professional Development Exposure to topics including ethics, multicultural responsiveness, documentation, boundaries, burnout, professional identity, and the transition from student to clinician.

  • Liberation-Focused Practice Develop a clinical lens that considers how systems of power, oppression, identity, and privilege—including race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, and other lived experiences—shape mental health, relationships, and access to care. Interns are encouraged to explore approaches that support individual healing while also recognizing and challenging the systemic conditions that impact the communities we serve.

  • Mezzo/Macro Practice For MSW students, opportunities to explore how clinical practice connects with groups, organizations, community work, advocacy, education, and systemic change.

A Developmental Approach to Clinical Training

We recognize that interns are still learning. Our goal is not to expect interns to enter the practice as fully formed clinicians, but to provide an environment where they can ask questions, make mistakes, receive feedback, and develop their skills with appropriate support.

Supervision is both a space for accountability and a space for learning. Interns are encouraged to bring uncertainty, difficult cases, emotional responses, questions about identity and culture, and challenges in their clinical work into supervision.

We also recognize that each intern enters training with different experiences, identities, strengths, learning needs, and professional goals. Our program incorporates a multicultural orientation that encourages curiosity about how culture, identity, power, privilege, and systemic factors influence both clinical work and the experience of becoming a therapist.

Learning Alongside a Community of Clinicians

Interns become part of a broader clinical community at Little Seed Wellness. Rather than experiencing internship as an isolated placement, students have opportunities to learn from supervisors, clinicians, other interns, and educators across the practice.

We value curiosity, collaboration, and the belief that clinicians remain learners throughout their careers.

Our University Partnerships

Little Seed Wellness has welcomed interns and developed relationships with graduate programs across the country and in the Chicago area, including:

  • Loyola University Chicago

  • Aurora University

  • University of Chicago

  • Adler University

  • Northeastern Illinois University

  • Colorado State University

  • University of Toronto

We work with students from different academic and clinical training backgrounds and collaborate with universities to support students in meeting their program's field education and professional development requirements.

Who We’re Looking For

We are interested in interns who are curious, reflective, collaborative, and committed to developing as clinicians. We value students who are willing to receive feedback, think critically about their clinical work, engage with perspectives different from their own, and take an active role in their professional development.

You do not need to have everything figured out before you begin. That is what internship is for.

Our Commitment to Interns

We want interns to leave Little Seed Wellness with more than completed clinical hours. Our goal is for each intern to leave with greater confidence in their clinical skills, a stronger understanding of their professional identity, experience navigating the realities of clinical practice, and a clearer sense of the kind of clinician they want to become.

We are committed to creating an internship environment where interns can learn, ask questions, receive meaningful feedback, develop their clinical voice, and grow into the profession with support.

Interested in Interning With Us?

Our internship cohort is typically organized around the academic school year. Applications and availability are announced on this page as positions become available. Our next application period opens in Feburary of 2027.

Questions about the internship program can be directed to:

Patrick Prewit
Internship and Supervision Coordinator
Patrick@littleseedwellness.com

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