Training Opportunities
In addition to providing professional counseling services, La Vie is a training facility for Psychological Assistants, Marriage and Family Therapy Interns and practicum students.
La Vie Counseling Center is a non-profit corporation established to serve the community by providing counseling, education, and training. La Vie seeks to offer the best from the psychological sciences in an effort to treat the whole person: body, mind, spirit, and relationships. While we welcome clients of all faith backgrounds and practices, we are uniquely qualified to offer Christian clients a sophisticated integration of spiritual and emotional issues. We train both pre- and post-doctoral psychological assistants and MFTs at both the practicum (pre-degree) and intern (BBS registered) level. Our goal is to develop skilled Christian professionals who demonstrate genuine compassion and ethical integrity as well as therapeutic excellence.
La Vie trainees and interns are exposed to a culturally diverse client population and collaborate with colleagues from other mental health disciplines, including clinical psychologists and clinical social workers. Our training program provides psychodynamic family systems supervision with a distinct psychoanalytic bent. Our staff also features therapists with significant training and experience in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) and Intersubjectivity Theory.
Trainees, interns, and psychological assistants are hired throughout the year depending on availability of spaces.
Trainees must:
- be qualified by their master’s program to enter practicum
Interns must:
- possess a valid California intern number
Interns, trainees, and psychological assistants must:
- be available Wednesdays for supervision and training;
- be available Fridays and Saturdays to work with clients;
- be explicitly interested in developing a private practice
La Vie is particularly interested in those who:
- have meaningful experiences with personal therapy
- bring life experience to the field
- have worked in business or other professions
Please submit a full resume to Joanne Weidman, MFT (MFT trainees) or Mark Baker, Ph.D (PAs and MFT interns). Please include all work experience, not just experience relevant to the counseling profession.