Graduate Clinical Intern

Restored Life Counseling
· Glendale / North Phoenix, Arizona
Employment: W-2, hourly, non-exempt
· paid placement
Reports to: Your assigned clinical supervisor

Restored Life Counseling provides affordable, quality, distinctively Christian mental health care to the Phoenix metro. Each of those three words is a commitment, and each one costs something.

Affordable. We take insurance, and we keep a sliding-scale and scholarship lane, so that cost is not the reason someone goes without care.

Quality. We measure outcomes rather than assume them. Supervision here is real supervision, and documentation is written to a standard that survives review. We pursue specialty certification from the bodies that set the standard in their fields (IITAP, EMDRIA, ICEEFT), so that a clinician's judgment is supported by more than their own accumulated experience.

Distinctively Christian. Not a label applied to otherwise ordinary care, but a clinical model that proceeds from a Christian understanding of what a person is, what has gone wrong, and what healing means. Our faith is the fuel for our service, not a prerequisite for anyone's care. We serve every client, inside the faith and outside it, with the same excellence and the same respect.

Affordable care that rests on goodwill is fragile. It lasts exactly as long as the donations do. So we are building four things that feed each other, and the point of building them is to put affordability on something sturdier than a fundraising cycle.

Care at scale. Enough clinicians, credentialed with enough payers, that someone who needs help can be seen in days rather than months, and that the sliding scale is a real door rather than a short waiting list.

Research. A practice that produces findings rather than only consuming them. Clinical work raises the questions; research answers them in a form other clinicians can act on.

Professional training. Training that carries a credential, so that the clinician who finishes it can demonstrate a competence rather than claim an interest, and where the standard is set high enough that the credential means something to people outside this practice.

Publishing for ordinary people. Resources for the person who will never sit in a therapist's office, written plainly, in language they already speak, about the things that are actually wrong.

These are not four items on a list. Each one feeds the next. Clinical work generates the questions. Research answers them. Training turns answers into competence other clinicians can acquire. Publishing puts them into ordinary hands. The clinicians that training reaches and the readers that publishing reaches come back through the front door as colleagues and as clients. And the revenue from the middle three is what holds the first one's price down.

Christian fidelity runs through all four. A secular organization could build every one of these, and several have. What makes this one different is that the clinical model, the research questions, the training curriculum and the published resources all proceed from the same convictions, and are held to them when it would be easier not to be.

Most of that is not built yet. Today this is a clinical job. Your pay is what the compensation section describes and nothing else. Nothing in this section is a promise of additional income, now or later. It is here because you should know what you would be joining, and because the people we want are the ones who find it worth building.

You must be able to affirm and work within our statement of faith. That is a requirement of this placement, not a preference, and it carries through to the pastoral and spousal references described under…