West River Mental Health offers an exceptional Internship Program to provide a community behavioral and mental health internship setting for students who are completing their Master’s level education in Counseling, Social Work, and/or other human service related fields. The worksite setting experience is a fundamental component in the development of a solid basis of knowledge for the intern to move into the professional mental health arena.
With the West River Mental Health mental health internship, the student will benefit from the experience of a professional relationship with a therapist working with West River Mental Health in the student’s specialization through direct, face-to-face supervision for a minimum of one hour per week. Students also gain understanding and appropriate experience related to billing practices utilized by a community mental health center.
West River Mental Health internships for counselors provide a thorough, practical experience that can only be obtained in an agency-based work setting. Our program will provide mental health internship cohorts with the skills necessary to prepare them for the community behavioral health counseling field.
West River Mental Health has been providing behavioral health care in Western South Dakota since 1948 and is the largest, most advanced community mental healthcare facility in the region. The company’s core vision, then and now, is to build positive change among ourselves and the communities where we live, work, and play. West River Mental Health provides exceptional internships for counselors, social workers, and professionals hoping to enter the human service field.