Clinical Internship & Practicum Positions in Colorado

Virtual or In-Person – Open on a Recurring Basis, Year-Round

Virtual internships for students in Colorado and New Mexico. In-person internships in Lafayette, Colorado.

About This Internship & Practicum Placement

Intuitive Life Wellness is open to graduate-level or practicum interns to join our clinical team. This is a paid, W-2 internship – not an unpaid placement or a 1099 arrangement – designed to give you real, supervised clinical hours toward licensure while contributing meaningfully to client care.

This position is open on a recurring basis, year-round – there is no fixed cohort start date, and I bring on interns whenever the fit is right.

Minimum commitment: This internship requires a minimum 6-month commitment. I do not offer preceptorships or other short-term placements – every intern who joins us is expected to meet this minimum so I can invest fully in your training and you can see cases through.

About the Practice & Approach to Therapy

To help you assess fit before applying, here’s how I work clinically. My approach is holistic and integrative with a strong mind/body/spirit focus – we don’t work from a single manualized protocol, but draw on multiple frameworks depending on the client in front of us. You have the freedom to explore modalities that you have trained in or are interested in learning as you are working with clients. I also practice within a psychedelic-informed, harm-reduction lens, and our clinical relationships are trauma-informed, person-centered, relational, and humanistic at their core – the therapeutic relationship itself is treated as a primary vehicle of change, not just a container for delivering techniques.

Primary Modalities

Psychedelic-assisted therapy
Preparation and integration
Mindfulness and meditation
Acudetox
IFS/parts work
Transpersonal therapy
Motivational interviewing

My Specialties

ADHD, AuDHD & Neurodivergent-affirming care
Addictions & Substance Use
Co-Occurring Disorders
Treatment-Resistant Depression
Anxiety
Grief and Loss
Spiritual Emergence

Compensation

You are paid an hourly wage for both direct client work and required administrative/documentation time.

• Clinical hourly rate: Clinical (client-facing) hours are paid hourly, and rates adjust each January. Your rate depends on the state where you live and work:
  • Colorado interns: The minimum wage for the location where you work. As of January 1, 2027, that is $15.71/hour under Colorado’s statewide minimum, or the higher local rate where one applies (for example, $19.84/hour in Denver and $18.17/hour in the City of Boulder).
  • New Mexico interns (virtual): $15.71/hour as of January 1, 2027 – the same as Colorado’s statewide rate, and well above New Mexico’s $12.00/hour state minimum. If you live and work in a New Mexico city with a higher local minimum (for example, $17.50/hour in Santa Fe in 2027), you are paid that higher local rate.
• Admin hourly rate: Administrative/documentation hours (notes, treatment plans, coordination): paid at the same rate as clinical hours. Admin hours are paid at 30% of your client hours (i.e. 12 client hours per week = 3.6 admin hours).
• Admin time: Paid admin time scales with your caseload rather than being capped at a flat number of hours per week, so your documentation time keeps pace as your client load grows.

Most internships run closer to a full year, though the required minimum is 6 months, to allow for a complete, well-rounded training experience.

Benefits

As a W-2 employee, you’re covered by the required employee protections of the state where you live and work. These differ between Colorado and New Mexico, so read the section for your state below.

At a Glance: Colorado vs. New Mexico

Colorado Interns

• Paid Sick Leave (Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act): You accrue paid sick leave (one hour for every 30 hours worked, up to 48 hours per year) that you can use for your own health needs or to care for a family member.
• Paid Family & Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI): Colorado’s paid leave insurance program, funded through payroll contributions, provides paid time off for a serious personal or family health need, bonding with a new child, or certain safe-leave situations. Eligibility is based on wages earned, not how long you’ve been with us – most interns become eligible within the first few months of the internship.

New Mexico Interns (Virtual)

• Paid Sick Leave (New Mexico Healthy Workplaces Act): You begin accruing paid sick leave on your first day – one hour for every 30 hours worked – and can use up to 64 hours per year. Unused sick leave carries over to the next year. You can use it for your own or a family member’s illness, injury, or medical care (including preventive care), for certain safe-leave situations related to domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking, or for meetings at a child’s school or place of care related to the child’s health or disability.
• Paid Family & Medical Leave: New Mexico does not currently have a state paid family and medical leave insurance program. Colorado’s FAMLI program and its payroll contributions apply only to interns working in Colorado.

Internship Requirements & Expectations

This is real clinical work with real accountability. Interns are expected to:

• Academic enrollment: Interns must be in a graduate level program and have an undergraduate/bachelor degree in a related mental health field, or hold equivalent job experience.
• Academic standing: Meet all requirements set by your graduate program for this placement, including maintaining good academic standing, carrying current professional liability (malpractice) insurance as required by your program (and if not required by the program, it is required by the practice), and completing any site-agreement paperwork between your school and the practice supervisor.
• Client population: Accept and carry a caseload that includes sliding-scale clients, Medicaid clients, and other insurance clients as assigned – this is a core part of the training experience and how we serve our community.
• Documentation & practice standards: Complete same-day documentation and meet documentation standards, maintain client confidentiality (HIPAA), and follow all clinical, ethical, and legal standards set out in the practice handbook and your professional code of ethics.
• Clinical scope: Conduct intake, biopsychosocial assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing therapy/counseling for both individual and group adult clients. Please note, this practice does not serve children or adolescents.
• Group leadership: Design and lead at least one therapy or support group of your own – virtual or in-person – with supervisory support.
• Supervision: Participate in weekly individual clinical supervision, plus any additional supervision or consultation sessions required by the practice.
• Additional requirements: Comply with the mandatory reporting laws of the state where you practice (Colorado or New Mexico), complete required onboarding/training, and use our EHR system for all clinical documentation. Comply with all practice policies and agreements.
• Marketing participation: Participate in practice marketing to support your own caseload growth, including providing a professional-looking headshot and bio, creating or sharing social media or marketing content for yourself, maintaining a profile(s) in relevant online directories, and being listed as a provider on our website.

Perks & Professional Development

• Real supervision: Weekly at a minimum, virtual or in-person individual supervision.
• Diverse clinical experience: Real-world experience across individual therapy, group therapy, and diverse client populations.
• Group facilitation ownership: Design and run your own group from the ground up – a resume-building leadership experience most interns don’t get until after licensure.
• Flexible scheduling: A hybrid mix of in-office and telehealth work with flexible scheduling for when you see clients.
• Training stipend: Opportunity to learn new or more specialized training in an area of interest.
  
• Reference & recommendation: A letter of recommendation and professional reference upon successful completion of the internship.
• Pathway to employment: Strong performers are considered first for paid Pre-Licensed Clinician positions once they graduate and begin post-graduate supervised practice.
• Private-practice business skills: Train in a private-practice setting for increased flexibility and building foundational business-development skills – marketing, branding, and caseload-building – alongside your clinical training.

How to Apply

Please send your resume, a brief cover letter describing your training goals, and your graduate program’s internship/practicum requirements to jessica@intuitivelifewellness.com. We review applications on a rolling basis and will follow up to schedule an interview.

Based in Colorado

Licensed in NM and CO