Clinical Counselling Graduate Internship

At Family Services of the North Shore, we offer a comprehensive internship program for Master’s-level counselling and social work students who need to complete their practicum and professional registration requirements. The 10-month program gives interns the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience within a community-based counselling agency, while also enabling the agency to continue its tradition of providing in-depth, affordable counselling services to North Shore residents. Under the guidance of an experienced Registered Clinical Counsellor, each intern is fully involved in all aspects of the counselling process and may work with individual adults and/or children and assist in group facilitation. We will be selecting 7-8 interns to form our team.

Focus areas include:
1.
Adult Counselling (individuals, couples, and families)
2.
Gender-Based Violence, Trauma and Abuse Counselling
3.
Child & Youth Counselling
4.

Parenting Counselling

Here’s the overview of what we commit to provide as well as what we expect from interns:
Requirements
Time Commitment
Clinical counselling (individual and group)
7-10 hours per week
Individual supervision
1.5-2 hours per week
Recording review / File Management
3-4 hours per week
Group supervision
5 hours per month
Training seminars
5 hours per month
Video/audio recording
all client sessions

Interns are required to commit 2.5 days per week to manage all client sessions, supervision, documentation requirements, and training hours.
Suite 203 – 1111 Lonsdale Ave.
North Vancouver, BC
V7M 2H4
604.988.5281
www.familyservices.bc.ca

We recognize the continuing contribution of the City of North Vancouver, District of
West Vancouver, District of North Vancouver and the financial assistance of the
Province of British Columbia.

A Virtual Information Session will be held on Thursday, January 15th, 2026 at 6-8 pm, please email internship@familyservices.bc.ca to receive the link for the virtual Information Session.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume by January 31st to internship@familyservices.bc.ca. In your cover letter, please include information about past counselling or related experience and the client population(s) you are interested in working with.
Interviews for selected candidates Interviews for selected candidates will take place starting in February and continue until placements are filled.