Internship Supervision Index Page

Internship · Practicum · Post-Graduate Supervision

Internship, Practicum & Supervision Resources

Everything in this section, grouped by how it is used. Read the group heading before you use anything, because a clinician reference and a client handout are not interchangeable.

How this index is organized

Each group below is colour-coded, running red to violet down the page. The colour tells you who the page is written for.

  • Placement & program — how supervision works here and who to contact.
  • Required before you see clients — complete these first. Not optional.
  • Training modules — staged learning with worksheets, group facilitation, and a completion assessment. These earn indirect hours.
  • Clinical reference — working references for the therapist. Not written for clients and not intended to be handed out.
  • School collaboration — IEP, Section 504, and special education, for clinicians who attend school meetings.
  • Client psychoeducation — plain language, for clients and families. Work through in session, assign between sessions, or send home.
  • For the clinician — your own sustainability. Yes, it counts.

Start here — the placement itself

Placement & program

Rashonda Clay-Douthit, MSW, LCSW is Internship Director. Beth Wodzenski, MA CMHC, NCC, APC is Internship Coordinator and the first point of contact for applicants, at B@orchardhumanservices.org.

Submit Application Apply for a practicum, internship, or post-graduate supervised placement. Clinical Supervision Agreement The agreement between the supervisee, the Orchard clinical supervisor, and the university. Complete and sign online before client contact begins. Intern / Practicum Student MOU The memorandum of understanding between Orchard and the supervisee, setting out placement terms and expectations. Internship & Practicum Program Program overview: what placements are available, who we accept, and how the year is structured. Institutional Review Board Required reading before any research, program evaluation, or data collection involving clients.
Your supervision team
Rashonda Clay-Douthit, MSW, LCSW Internship Director. Dr. Darleen Claire Wodzenski, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS Clinical Director. Supervision philosophy, approach, and background. Beth Wodzenski, MA CMHC, NCC, APC Internship Coordinator and first point of contact for applicants.

Required before you see clients

Complete first

Work through all of these before your first independent session. Your supervisor will confirm completion before assigning you a caseload.

New HIPAA & FERPA Part A covers HIPAA and is required of every supervisee. Part B covers FERPA and applies if your caseload includes students. Part C covers the one place they meet. Confirm your pathway with your supervisor. New Disclosures: What We Tell Clients Before They Tell Us Anything The limits of confidentiality, diagnosis, records requests, safety disclosures, and how to state your own licensure and supervision status. Complete the HIPAA & FERPA module first. New Consultative Collaboration & Notification to Outside Parties How documents reach schools, employers and physicians — we send them to the client, who approves and forwards. When direct contact is warranted instead, and what you owe a client once they sign a release. New Play Complete before your first child or youth client. Child-led play and Theraplay, what play reveals, online safety, and vetted games and resources. New TeleMental Health Preparation and reference for the six-hour board-required training. Rule 135-11-.01, jurisdiction, consent, client privacy and safety, the Orchard risk response protocol, and safety planning. Clinical Supervision Agreement Signed by you, your Orchard supervisor, and your university faculty supervisor. Must be complete before you see clients. Intern / Practicum Student MOU Your memorandum of understanding with Orchard. Complete alongside the supervision agreement. Georgia Licensure, Board Rules & ACA Ethics Four-page summary: the APC to LPC path, what practicum and internship require, the Board rule chapters, mandated reporting, and the ACA code. Crisis Support Resources Know these before you need them, not while you need them. Hotlines, emergency contacts, and escalation pathways. Operations Manual Orchard’s operating policy. Section C sets out the disclosures every clinician makes at the start of care; Section D covers documentation in Theranest, assessments, and risk assessment. Tele-Mental Health How telehealth is delivered here, and the practice standards that apply to supervisees working remotely. Client Forms — Adult Intake and consent paperwork for adult clients. Know what your clients have signed. Client Forms — Minor / Under 18 Intake and consent paperwork for minors, including the parental consent provisions.
On the HIPAA and FERPA module specifically: the two federal trainings it links to are free but are hosted by outside agencies and take about two hours combined. Start them early rather than the week you need the sign-off.

Training & assessment modules

Indirect hours

Staged learning with worksheets and a completion assessment. Work through these in order within each module, and log your time per your supervision agreement. Some modules include group processing and the opportunity to lead a psychoeducational processing group.

New HIPAA & FERPA Three separable parts. HIPAA for all supervisees; FERPA if you serve students; the intersection if records cross to or from a school. Free federal trainings from HHS and the Department of Education, a co-facilitated process group, and a part-divided assessment. New Disclosures What we tell clients before they tell us anything. Limits of confidentiality, diagnosis, records requests including subpoenas, safety disclosures, and stating your own licensure and supervision status. Includes scripts to rehearse aloud. New Consultative Collaboration The client as agent of their own best interest, expressed as policy. Client-routed letters and excuses, planning a release request, the two Orchard release forms, working with prescribers and schools, and closing the loop you opened. New Play Child-led play and Theraplay, Erikson’s stages and scaffolding in the ZPD, what play reveals about a child, online safety, and vetted games, movement, and bibliotherapy resources. New Showing Up Whole — Person-Centered Approach The way of being in the room that sits underneath whatever model you work from. Congruence and using yourself as the instrument, emoting within range, heart rate variability as a trainable target, holding opposites, scaffolding in the ZPD, and widening a field that has narrowed to two options. Includes a six-case group workbook. New TeleMental Health Georgia requires six CE hours before any licensee delivers clinical TMH, and nine before supervising by TMH. Ten sections and twenty-three worked cases: the law and jurisdiction, intake and consent, platforms, therapy on screen, crisis and risk, online dangers and the client’s room, the Counseling Compact, and ACA, NBCC and APA ethics. New Learning, Literacy & Academic Success Academic struggle arrives as anxiety, avoidance, and school refusal. How to build familiarity before formal study, get a stuck client started, rebuild competence after math phobia, and use graphic organizers. White paper, strategy chart, and success contract. When a Diagnosis Doesn’t Match the Presentation Six stages plus a capstone. Differential reasoning, case conceptualization, and collaborative consultation when the record and the client do not agree. Worksheet packet and twelve-item assessment. Mental Status Examination — Training Staged training in conducting and documenting a mental status examination. Continuing Education Catalogue Approved continuing education offered through Orchard, NBCC ACEP #7260. Some courses are open to supervisees. Water Keeper — AI Ethics CE Course Ethical use of artificial intelligence in mental health care. Topics for Training & Self-Exploration A menu of areas you can pursue independently and bring into supervision.

Clinical reference for the counseling room

Therapist only

Working references for clinicians. These are not written for clients and are not intended to be handed out.

Georgia Licensure, Board Rules & ACA Ethics Keep this one to hand. Hour requirements, scope limits while unlicensed, reporting thresholds, and crisis numbers. MSE Clinician Reference Quick reference for conducting and documenting a mental status examination. Assessments — PHQ-9, GAD-7, CSRS Screening instruments with administration and scoring guidance. Screening results inform a clinical picture; they do not establish a diagnosis. Medication Tapering Reference on discontinuation, withdrawal, and rebound. Tapering decisions belong to the prescriber; this page supports informed collaboration, not counselor-led change.
Clinical white papers
Dissociative Identity Disorder Presentation, differential considerations, and treatment framing. Bipolar Disorder Diagnostic considerations and common points of confusion. Thyroid Dysfunction & Mental Health Medical contributors to presentations that look primarily psychiatric. Lipedema & Mental Health A frequently missed condition with substantial psychological consequences.

School collaboration — IEP, Section 504 & special education

Clinician reference

Orchard clinicians attend school meetings, write letters that enter education records, and advise families navigating eligibility. Read these before your first meeting, and read the HIPAA & FERPA module before you write anything that will be sent to a school.

Alphabet Soup of Special Education The acronyms, decoded. Start here if school meetings are new to you. Individualized Education Program (IEP) What an IEP is, what it contains, and where a clinician’s input fits. The IEP Process Referral through eligibility through implementation, and the timelines that govern each stage. Section 504 Planning Eligibility, accommodations, and how Section 504 differs from an IEP. Understanding Section 504 Plans Plain-language companion suitable for sharing with families. Response to Intervention (RTI) The tiered support process that often precedes a special education referral. EIP vs. IEP Two similar acronyms, two very different things. Families confuse them constantly. IEP, Section 504 & Your Child Family-facing overview you can work through with parents.
Before you attend a school meeting: confirm you have a current release naming the school and the purpose, and remember that what you say is likely to become part of the education record. Stay inside your scope. Eligibility is a team determination, not a clinical opinion you can supply.

Psychoeducation to use in session and share with clients

Client-facing

Written in plain language for clients, parents, and families. These can be worked through in session, assigned between sessions, or sent home.

Neurodevelopment & learning
ADHD Resources A different way of being. For adults and children, at home, at school or university, in the community, and at work. Neurodiversity A strengths-based frame for autism and neurodevelopmental difference.
Relationships, parenting & communication
Parenting Guidance for parents on connection, regulation, and responding to behavior. Growing Together Couples workshop for new and established relationships. Safe Connect Pathway to effective communication, with therapist and client modules. Socially Effective Communication Modules supporting an online adult social skills group, with therapist workbook and instructions.
Nutrition, energy & the body
Nutrition for Mental Health How eating patterns affect mood, attention, sleep, and regulation. Whole Foods Nutrition An introduction to whole foods for overall wellbeing. Energy & Vitality Explains mitochondria and how we can support energy production for mental and physical health. Mito Energy Why energy and mitochondrial health deserve real attention, including medical conditions that affect mitochondria such as MCAS, EDS, and POTS.
These pages are educational. They do not replace assessment, diagnosis, or medical care, and nothing here should be used to guide changes to prescribed treatment.

Supervisees: discuss in supervision before assigning a resource to a client for the first time.

For the clinician

Your own sustainability

Holding what clients tell you has a cost, and a placement year is when the habits that either sustain or exhaust you get set. Use these, and bring what surfaces to supervision.

Showing Up Whole Your own regulation is the instrument. Paced breathing before a hard session, staying settled while emotionally engaged, and noticing where your own edge is. Learning & Study Strategies Printables to use with clients: the six-step pre-read, body math, the success contract, and graphic organizer templates. Self-Care Guide Practical rather than aspirational. Written for people who are already tired. Purple Cape Hope Orchard’s digital wellness resources, for you as much as for clients. Crisis Support Resources For clients, and for you. Listed twice on purpose.

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Questions about a placement, or about any training module: B@orchardhumanservices.org
Beth Wodzenski, MA CMHC, NCC, APC, Internship Coordinator.
Questions about applying a module to a specific client belong in supervision.

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Index last updated September 2026.

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