Music Therapy Intern

Job Description

Are you interested in a Music Therapy internship at Park Nicollet? Come join us and help us make an impact on the care and experience that our patients and their families receive every day.

The Music Therapy Intern provides music therapy sessions for patients in accordance with American Music Therapy Association National Roster Internship guidelines. The music therapy intern, under supervision and consultation of the supervising music therapists and the music therapy internship director, determines and utilizes music therapy approaches, which effectively aid in the restoration, maintenance, and/or improvement in psychosocial, physical, or spiritual health.

The Music Therapy Intern delivers patient/family focused care for assigned patients under the direction of the staff music therapists.

Park Nicollet is part of the larger Health Partners health care system. The Park Nicollet Health Partners internship is a comprehensive medical Music Therapy internship where Music Therapy interns gain experience in many medical settings and populations. The main location for interns is based out of the Methodist Hospital Campus in St. Louis Park (a suburb of Minneapolis). Other part‑time or optional locations extend to Bloomington, St.

Paul and Stillwater.

Park Nicollet’s American Music Therapy Association national roster internship program began in 1998. Over 175 interns from approximately 40 different Music Therapy academic programs across the country have completed their internships at Park Nicollet.

Music Therapy interns will gain experience in facilitating group and individual Music Therapy sessions in a variety of clinical settings across the Park Nicollet and Health Partners health care network, including:

• One inpatient hospital setting:
  Methodist Hospital, Regions Hospital or Lakeview Hospital
• Frauenshuh Cancer Center and/or Regions Cancer Center
• Park Nicollet Home Care Hospice or Health Partners Home Care Hospice
• Struthers Parkinson’s Center
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Harmonicas for Health program

Interns receive feedback and supervision from at least three music therapy internship supervisors, selected from a team of eight board-certified music therapy internship supervisors, who have many years of experience and advanced training in the following:

• Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music
• Music Imagery
• Neurologic Music Therapy
• Hospice Music Therapy
• Music Psychotherapy
• Medical Music Therapy
• Creative Arts Therapy approaches, such as Mandalas

Interns are gradually given caseloads and responsibilities, including documentation in the EPIC electronic medical record, participation in interdisciplinary team meetings, and administrative duties to fully prepare them to function as music therapists. Most of these internship locations are primarily focused on providing care for adults in medical settings, except for Regions Hospital where there are some pediatric and NICU patients.

This posting is intended for those applicants who are seeking internship start dates of January and April 2027. The Final date to receive applications is July 1st, 2026, at 11:59 pm, CST. If seeking later internship start dates, please wait for future postings to apply.

Stipend: A stipend of $1,500 is available and will be paid upon successful completion of the internship.

Meals: Interns receive 1-2 free meals in the hospital cafeteria during each eight-hour workday.

Mileage: Interns are eligible to receive reimbursement for commuting miles between homes or facilities of hospice patients at the official IRS yearly mileage reimbursement rate. Mileage is not provided for miles logged between other work locations, such as travel between the inpatient hospitals, Frauenshuh Cancer Center and Struthers Parkinson’s Center.

Living arrangements: Interns will need to make living arrangements independently. A few community members have made low-cost housing options available to previous interns.

Transportation: Due to the variety of locations for Music Therapy services, it will be necessary for interns to provide their own car.

Hours and schedule: The six-month, 1000-hour full-time internship will…