UIMH Internship Program
At the Urban Institute of Mental Health (UIMH), our internship program is driven by a clear and unwavering commitment: to educate mental health professionals in the ethical delivery of effective, non-biased, non-discriminatory, anti-racist, and culturally appropriate mental health services. We understand the ongoing struggle to provide meaningful care to BIPOC communities and the importance of destigmatizing and decolonizing therapy.
UIMH is dedicated to equipping clinicians with the tools and training necessary to guide people of color on their journey to healing, fostering empowerment and resilience. Our program is intentionally designed to be thorough and rigorous because we are serious about developing clinicians of excellence. We strive to ensure that each intern is prepared to uphold the mission of UIMH in their own clinical practice, becoming advocates for mental health equity and pioneers in providing compassionate, competent, and culturally responsive care.
As An Intern Here at UIMH:
1. You will have a work experience that is different from most other organizations you have worked with.
2. You will be challenged in ways that will facilitate both professional and personal growth in ways unimaginable.
3. Regardless of your licensure status, you will receive supervision and consultation as well as wrap-around support. You will be part of a tribe.
4. You will have the ability to participate in a mission that is bigger than ourselves and work with populations whom are typically overlooked and underserved.
5. Most importantly, you will have the ability to learn from both your clients and colleagues in ways that will likely transform your clinical practice.
UIMH Clinician Commitments
As a clinician here at UIMH, you will be expected to do the following:
1. Clinicians must be in a space in their own healing journey where they are slow to offense and inspiring to learn from and teach others for the empowerment of BIPOC clients and the field as a whole.
2. If something that is said in your session moves you to any emotion that does not sit well with you, you must be open to the idea of embracing the emotion and reflecting on what was triggering about the content. Once realizing what triggered you, you must challenge yourself to use that information to enlighten your therapy practice.
3. Clinicians must be open to questioning everything that they have ever automatically and unconsciously believed and have been taught; most specifically as it pertains to mental health clinical practice and techniques.
4. If you are a person who has been born into privilege in any area of your life (race, sex, gender orientation, sexuality, etc.) You must commit to hold yourself accountable for the beliefs and behaviors that contribute to upholding colonized beliefs and systems of oppression. Even if your behaviors were unconscious and unintentional. Once you become aware of these beliefs and behaviors, you must commit to positive change.
5. Clinicians will be expected to hold space for clients and colleagues who may be new to the decolonization of their minds. If someone offends you unintentionally, it must be addressed in supervision and made to be an opportunity to learn and grow.
The Foundation of Our Internship Program
Using the link below, explore all aspects of our internship program and what you will be learning and expected duties.
Apply For Our Internship Program
Use the link below to complete the Internship Candidacy Questionnaire for the Urban Institute of Mental Health (UIMH)
