Practicums & Internships

We hold our trainees the way they learn to hold their clients — with warmth, attunement, skill, and support.

Mobile Mama prepares graduate counseling students to provide trauma-informed, evidence-based therapy for perinatal clients through specialized training, supervision, and hands-on clinical experience.

Mobile Mama Clinical Practicum Overview

Please note: We accept applications from individuals pursuing practicum as part of the Mobile Mama Clinical Counseling Internship pathway.

This is a 100-hour, Master’s-level practicum in Perinatal Mental Health designed for 2–4 graduate counseling students. Practicum students begin developing foundational clinical skills in perinatal mental health counseling through therapy, intake assessments, documentation, consultation, and clinical training. Students complete their practicum by providing a hybrid of in-person and telehealth therapy for Medicaid-enrolled perinatal clients, while receiving onboarding, supervision, and support designed to prepare them for their Mobile Mama clinical internship.

Practicum students will:

  • Provide therapy for 4–5 perinatal clients per week
  • Participate in weekly individual and group supervision
  • Attend monthly PMH training and consultation
  • Complete approximately 10 hours per week

Perinatal Mental Health Training

Both practicum students and interns participate in specialized training in perinatal mental health counseling.

Training topics include:

  • Transition to motherhood and parenthood
  • Perinatal depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, and OCD
  • Psychosis and safety planning
  • Traumatic birth and perinatal loss
  • Fertility challenges
  • The impact of sexual abuse on the perinatal period
  • Sex and intimacy
  • The art of therapy with the perinatal population

Mobile Mama Clinical Counseling Internship Overview

This 600-hour, Master’s-level Internship in Perinatal Mental Health is designed for 2–4 graduate counseling students. Interns provide intake support, assessments, and therapy for Medicaid-enrolled perinatal clients across Whatcom, Skagit, and San Juan Counties, providing a hybrid of in-person and telehealth therapy while also receiving extensive supervision, consultation, and specialized perinatal mental health training. The internship is designed to help students develop the clinical knowledge, skills, and confidence to continue their work in perinatal mental health post-graduation.

Intern will:

  • Provide therapy for 10–12 clients per week
  • Participate in weekly individual and group supervision
  • Attend Level One training of Lifespan Integration
  • Attend 10-week, PMH training with Perinatal Support WA
  • Attend monthly UW Perinatal Psychiatry consultation series
  • Receive Mobile Mama monthly advanced PMH consultation and training
  • Participate in monthly Internship Seminar with cohort
  • Help to facilitate Tender Transitions: A Mobile Mama Group
  • Complete approximately 20 hours per week
  • Receive a $1,600 monthly stipend

Who Should Apply:

This program is designed for graduate counseling students interested in specializing in perinatal mental health counseling who reside in Washington State, ideally within driving distance of Whatcom County.

  • Practicum/Internship start dates range from August to September.
  • Applications for the 2027–2028 cohort open January 1, 2027.

How to apply:

If you are interested, please email Michelle@MobileMama.com with “Mobile Mama Internship” in subject line. Please include a cover letter describing your interest in a practicum and/or internship with Mobile Mama and current resume.

Please call with any questions (360) 393-5114.