Applications are In!

Hi friends! You may have been wondering where I have been for the last few weeks. Probably not, but I'm going to tell you anyway.

Since my last post, my life has consisted of practicum work and internship applications. I took all my sad/frustrated/disappointed energy and thrust it into work. Internship applications are no joke, let me tell you. I saw my friends from my old cohort laboring over them last year and submitting things at 11:59pm when they were due at midnight and I swore I would not be in that position this year. And I wasn't! I submitted every single application early! For someone known for procrastinating, this is a huge accomplishment! I feel confident in my essays and cover letters, as well as my recommendation letters, which two of my supervisors shared with me. (On a side note, it's really nice to know that my supervisors think I'm a "natural" therapist and had such positive things to say about me.) Now, I just have to hope that the internship sites actually READ my applications. Having the process online is, in a lot of ways, a huge relief. On the other hand, training directors can search and screen you out based on any number of factors, without ever having read your cover letter or recommendations. For instance, if they decide they want someone with at least 10 integrated assessments, my application will never be looked at and they won't have the opportunity to decided that despite that, I am actually a great applicant. So, I'm just hoping that the sites read my application because (at least for some of them) I think if they read my cover letter and see how passionate I am about their site, they might just want to interview me. I don't know that I'm the greatest interviewer, as in I don't necessarily say all the right answers, but I do know that I'm nice and personable and I am extremely excited and passionate about the work done and the training opportunities at some of these places. I just need the chance!

You would think that I would feel a sense of accomplishment and relief now that my applications are all in, but I actually just feel anxious. My whole life is going to change in a few short months, and uprooting and moving somewhere new is extremely stressful to think about and really hard to do at my age.

In case you want to know where I am applying, below is the list in alphabetical order. I don't want to rank-order them just in case a training director finds my blog. I have googled myself and gone to google blogs and nothing comes up, so I think I'm okay, but you know, just in case. Here is my list of 24, and I will update as I get interviews/rejections:

Community Healthlink, Worcester, Massachusetts

Family Services and Guidance Center, Topeka, Kansas

Franciscan Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts

Harvard Medical School/The Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Institute for Child and Family Health, Inc., Miami, Florida

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital / Children’s Health Council, Palo Alto, California

Marin County Health and Human Services, San Rafael, California

The Milton Hershey School, Hershey, Pennsylvania

Morrison Child and Family Services, Portland, Oregon


The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, New York, New York

Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

Riverbend Community Mental Health Inc., Concord, New Hampshire

Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center, Santa Monica, California

Suffolk University Counseling Center, Boston, Massachusetts

University of California, Santa Cruz CAPS, Santa Cruz, California

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas

University of Maine Counseling Center, Orono, Maine

University of Miami Counseling Center, Miami, Florida

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Clinical Child, Albuquerque, New Mexico

University of Notre Dame Counseling Center, South Bend, Indiana

University of Virginia CAPS, Charlottesville, Virginia

The Village for Children and Families, Hartford, Connecticut

WestCoast Children’s Clinic, Oakland, California

Western Youth Services, Orange County, California


Cross your fingers, people!

Update: I'll cross out those I get rejected from and bold those I get interviews at.