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Overview:
Our practicum/internship involves a 15-20 hr/week commitment for 12 months. Students participate in varied clinical activities and receive regular training and supervision.
Eligibility:
- Master's level internship
- Doctoral student practicum
Professional activities include:
- Co-lead the evening Intensive Outpatient Program Groups (Experiential group, DBT/Life skills group, and Process group)
- Co-lead outpatient support groups for eating concerns
- Provide individual, family and couples therapy for eating disorders
- Co-lead Family & Friends Information night
- Weekly IOP team meeting - group supervision (2 hr)
- Weekly individual supervision (1 hr)
- Monthly experiential methods/ psychodrama training
- Regular consultation with psychiatrists, nutritionists, and physicians
Skill Enhancement:
- Understanding of psychological & physiological aspects of disordered eating
- Diagnosis and treatment planning
- Group facilitation/ co-facilitation
- DBT for ED (mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance etc)
- Insight-oriented/ interpersonal group process
- Experiential therapies (role-play, psychodrama, movement/body connection, art)
- Appetite Awareness Training/ Intuitive eating
- Psycho-education skills
- Individual therapy/Couple/Family therapy
- Understanding of working as part of multidisciplinary treatment team
- Understanding of private practice/managed care issues
- Collaboration with outpatient treatment providers
About La Luna Center:
La Luna Center is an outpatient treatment facility that serves individuals (adolescents and adults) struggling with disordered eating, body image and exercise concerns. We provide individual therapy, nutrition therapy, couples/family therapy, weekly support groups, and an Intensive Outpatient Program. This IOP program is group based, starts participants at 9 hours a week of group therapy, in addition to individual & nutrition therapy. The IOP is appropriate for medically stable individuals with a history of significant eating disorder concerns.
Treatment Team:
Our treatment team consists of psychologists, master’s level therapists, registered dieticians, and practicum students/interns. We collaborate regularly around client treatment in both informal consultation and formal supervision.
Treatment Philosophy/Approach:
At La Luna Center we recognize that eating disorders serve as coping tools for underlying emotional issues. We describe our approach to treatment as feminist and integrative; meaning that the treatment process is collaborative between therapist and client and that we integrate treatment tools and techniques from varied theoretical perspectives including CBT, DBT, ACT, interpersonal, psychodynamic, client-centered, experiential etc.
Locations and start dates for 2012/2013:
Boulder:
- 2 positions per year
- Interviews begin in March 2012
- Start in either May/june or Aug/Sep
- 12 month commitment
- 15-20 hours week
Fort Collins
- 1 Position available for 2012
- Start in January
- 12 month commitment
- 15-20 hours week
How to apply:
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