FSWC interns offer services using a sliding scale that ranges from $20 – $60 per session. The first session is a flat $20 regardless of household size and family income, which allows you and your therapist to evalute if they are a good fit for you. 

FSWC interns offer daytime, evening and weekend appointments, with both in-office and virtual scheduling options. 

FSWC Interns receive supervision for up to 3 hours per week with an experienced, licensed clinician(s) who have formal training in supervising new therapists.  Unlike licensed clinicians, intern therapists are directly accountable to their supervisor for ensuring they provide evidence-based care tailored to each client on their caseload. This means your intern therapist will be talking regularly about your situation with an experienced clinician, putting their heads together to come up with effective interventions to help you reach your therapy goals. In other words, you get two therapists helping you instead of one. 

FSWC interns hold small caseloads (5-12 clients per week) in order to ensure that they have ample time to process, plan, consult, and gather information/materials for each unique individual, couple or family they are working with. Each session is carefully thought out, with time to reflect afterwards. Smaller caseloads = more individualized attention!

While all clinicians are required to take continuing education courses, therapists-in-training are in their prime when it comes to knowing the latest research, learning and utilizing empirically supported interventions, and being informed of the most up-to-date best practices in the field of psychotherapy. 

FSWC interns have successfully completed many years of schooling and have met all educational prerequisites to FINALLY get in the chair and start doing what they love.  After all, they got into this field to work with people, and now they finally get to do it! With all of the knowledge they have acquired fresh in their minds as they prepare to launch their new career, the energy and passion they bring to each client / each session is contagious and refreshing. 

Being new to the field, an intern may be encountering your set of symptoms, experiences or challenges for the first time. Don’t let this alarm you (remember the above themes of passion, knowledge, and supervision)! Interns bring a thoughtful and unassuming curiosity since they have not had hundreds of similar clients across the years.

While it’s important to note that all therapists do their best to maintain that new-therapist curiosity, it can be easier to do so when you are, in fact, a new therapist. And by staying curious, your therapist is able to ensure that you feel heard and understood as a unique individual navigating your own unique journey through life.