SARP Clinical Internships

The Survivor Advocacy, Response & Prevention Center (SARP) offers clinical training opportunities for graduate students studying social work and mental health counseling fields.

Our training program welcomes students from diverse educational backgrounds, including:

  • Clinical Social Work interns in their 2nd year placement
  • Mental Health Counseling students in their year-long placement

Counseling Internship

As part of SARP’s robust clinical training program, each intern receives:

  • Full academic year placement (mid-August to mid-May)
  • 2-week training at the end of August before providing client services
  • 24-hour-per-week schedule (all in-person hours)
  • Primary and secondary clinical supervision
  • Weekly individual supervision with their primary supervisor and weekly group supervision with their secondary supervisor
  • Monthly professional development on various clinical topics (e.g., ethical decision making, anti-racist survivor services, working with trans survivors of dating violence, etc.)
  • Connection to a network of additional clinical interns within other SHS departments, including Counseling & Psychiatric Services (CAPS) and Health Promotion & Prevention (HPP)

The Clinical Experience

Trainees’ core clinical work will focus on:

  • Providing trauma-informed individual and group counseling, including mental health assessments and treatment planning
  • Advocating for survivors of violence, including safety assessment and planning
  • Accompanying students to court hearings, police interviews, or other appointments related to their trauma
  • Providing daytime triage to students who have recently experienced a trauma, most frequently as survivors of sexual & dating violence
  • Participate in crisis support (e.g., community death, community tragedy), including client outreach by phone, message, and email

Additional opportunities include:

  • Assist SARP professional staff on department projects (e.g., program evaluation, inter- and intra-university committees)
  • Collaborate with SHS providers including Counseling & Psychiatric Services (CAPS), Primary Care and Athletic Training
  • Join outreach and mental health education efforts across campus

Application Information

Applications open in the Fall semester for the following academic year. If you are interested in gaining meaningful, hands-on experience in college survivorship, please send your resume and a cover letter to sarp@bu.edu.