Grow into the clinician you want to become.
A full academic year inside a working group practice, with real clients, close supervision, and a team that remembers exactly what this stage felt like.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn · Union Square, NYC · Midtown West, NYC · Telehealth
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The short version. Brooklyn Integrative Psychological Services hosts MSW and MHC interns for a full academic year, or whatever term a graduate program designates. Interns carry their own caseload of adults, teens and couples, with weekly individual supervision from a licensed supervisor and weekly group supervision alongside peers and senior clinicians. A bimonthly practicum runs across the year, and a training stipend is provided for outside modality training. Placements are in Greenpoint, Union Square and Midtown West, plus telehealth. BIPS has hosted interns since 2020 from Columbia, NYU, Fordham, Wake Forest, Prescott, Syracuse, LIU Post and Pace. Applications are rolling.
Structured enough to hold you, open enough to find your own way.
Starting your clinical training is exciting and a little terrifying, often in the same afternoon. We know. Everyone here has been there.
You do not need to know how to be a therapist on day one. What matters is that you're curious, honest about what you don't know yet, and genuinely willing to be taught. A sense of humor goes a long way too.
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You'll have your own clients, and you won't be alone with them
You start seeing clients early, because that's how you learn. Every case has a supervisor behind it, and nobody expects you to have the answer before you've had a chance to think it through with someone.
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Supervision is the center of the week
Individual and group, every week. Bring the session that confused you, the client you can't stop thinking about, the thing you're worried was a mistake. That's exactly what the hour is for.
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We give feedback early, kindly, and often
You won't get to April wondering how you're doing. Feedback here is a normal part of conversation rather than a verdict, and it goes both ways — tell us what you need.
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The year can be shaped around your goals
Caseload size follows your school's requirements, and beyond that we can often customize. Want more couples work, more teens, more experience with a particular modality? Say so in the interview and we'll build toward it.
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You'll be part of the team, not adjacent to it
Group supervision, case consultation, and practicum are where the community actually happens. Interns are in the room for all of it, and their questions change how the rest of us think.
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We take care of the people who take care of clients
Asking for help is normal here. So is having a life outside of work. We'd rather you tell us early that something's hard than push through quietly.
Training isn't squeezed in around billable hours.
Training isn't something we squeeze in around billable hours. It's a core part of what this practice is for, and we resource it accordingly.
Individual supervision
Weekly, with a licensed supervisor who knows your clients and knows you. Not a rotating name on a schedule.
Group supervision
Case presentation alongside peers and senior clinicians. You'll learn as much from other people's cases as from your own.
A caseload built with you
Adults, teens, and couples across a wide range of concerns. Size follows your program's requirements; the mix we can often shape around your interests.
Bimonthly practicum
A curriculum on the parts of the job school doesn't cover: fees, terminations, consultation calls, licensure, finding your footing.
A training stipend
Money set aside so you can pursue modality training that fits the clinician you're becoming.
A place to stay
Over 90% of our interns are offered full-time employment when their internship year ends, with comprehensive benefits and an automatic raise at licensure.
New Yorkers working with New Yorkers.
BIPS is a group practice of more than thirty licensed and pre-licensed psychotherapists, a small administrative team, and interns. We see adults, children, adolescents, and couples across a wide range of clinical concerns, in Greenpoint, Union Square, and Midtown West, and by telehealth across New York, Massachusetts, and Oregon.
Our approach is integrative and whole-person. We work with psyche, culture and identity, environment, social context, and the ordinary reality-based problems that fill people's lives. Therapy doesn't happen in a vacuum, and neither does training.
We're New Yorkers working with New Yorkers — people with full lives, layered identities, and real-world stressors. Our team reflects the communities we serve, and we build it that way on purpose.
We don't train people to sound like us. Every clinician here brings their own authentic self into the room, and the point of your year is to help you find your voice on top of solid clinical fundamentals.
Five things we actually mean.
The mental health system hasn't served every community equitably. Marginalized and underrepresented groups still face real barriers to care, and we don't think naming that is enough on its own.
We aim for transparency and accountability, and we welcome open dialogue even when the conversation is uncomfortable. Growth often lives there.
- Hope — people grow and change, clinicians included. You don't need to arrive fully formed. You need to arrive open.
- Wellness — therapists deserve care too. Support, consultation and community are normal here, never a sign that something's wrong with you.
- Integrity — we hold a high standard, and we give you the supervision to reach it. Transparency runs in both directions.
- Generosity — we spend real time on training. Ask the question. Push back. Think out loud with us.
- Teaching — teaching is central to who we are, not something we fit in around the edges.
- Equity and systemic change — we provide services without discrimination or harassment.
- We treat every client with dignity and respect.
- We hold ongoing conversations about power, identity, and systemic inequity.
- We support personal and professional growth around social justice.
- We build a diverse team on purpose, at every level including interns.
Partner programs
We've partnered with Columbia University, New York University, Fordham University, Wake Forest University, Prescott College, and Syracuse University, and hosted doctoral trainees from LIU Post and Pace University.
You'll be with us for a full academic year, or whatever term your graduate program designates. Interns are integrated into the practice, not parked beside it.
We read every application carefully.
We're looking for fit and potential more than a perfect résumé. We're thinking about your academic preparation, any clinical experience, your openness to learning, how you work with others, and your care for ethical practice.
Applications are rolling for Fall 2026 – Summer 2027.
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Send your materials
Email your résumé, a list of courses you've taken, and a cover letter. Tell us what draws you to this work and what you'd like to get better at — that's more useful to us than a list of accomplishments.
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Hear back within a week
We aim to let you know your interview status within one week of receiving a complete application, so you're not left wondering.
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Interview
In person or virtual, whichever works for you. You may meet supervisors, administrators, and a current intern. These really are conversations: we want to learn about you, and you should be figuring out whether we're right for you.
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Start in the fall
Onboarding, meeting your supervisor, talking through your goals for the year, and then your first clients.
The parts of the job school doesn't cover.
Bimonthly seminars that run alongside your clinical work, covering the practical parts of becoming a therapist. Here's the sequence from a recent year.
Introductions, bios, and branding
Editing your professional bio and clarifying your clinical identity.
Bios and social media
Becoming findable to the clients you most want to work with.
Consultation calls
How to run a first call and talk honestly about fit.
Group supervision and networking
Building professional relationships inside and beyond the practice.
Getting the most from group supervision
Case conceptualization, and what to gather before you present.
Modalities and the training stipend
Choosing training that matches your clinical interests.
Hard conversations, and asking for help
Fees, attendance, holidays, endings — and how to raise something with a supervisor.
Termination
Preparing clients — and yourself — to end well.
Licensure and the post-graduate job search
Planning your hours and figuring out what to look for in a first job.
Closing
Reflecting on the year and what you'll carry forward.
We'd love to hear from you.
If you're fascinated by people, committed to equity, and looking for a place that will both stretch you and take good care of you while it does — get in touch. Please attach your résumé, your courses-taken list, and a cover letter. Questions before you apply are welcome too.