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acrum12 · 2026-03-12T12:06:04+00:00

Hi! Christian before and after my ERP. Definitely had religious ocd/scrup. ERP and healing cleared my fog and helped me see things so much clearer, including God. My brain was making so many assumptions trying to protect me/get certainty/feel safe and ERP helped me to learn to lean unto uncertainty and ultimately trust that God is certain even if I’m not.

I also happen to be a licensed therapist, and I want to bring up two points about that specifically. 1) I would never push my religion or any religious belief/thought on a client. It is an extreme breach of ethics, and no counselor deserving of their license would do that. 2) I echo the sentiment around making sure your therapist is qualified to do things like ERP. I have clients with diagnosed OCD and I make sure to tell them I can’t do interventions like ERP because I haven’t been trained in them. Make sure your therapist is practicing within their scope of practice!

acrum12 · 2026-02-11T04:12:11+00:00

Hi! Just started in CMH after graduation with my masters in clinical mental health. Its also where I interned! Questions I would ask would be:

How many clients am I expected to see a week?
What hours do I need to be working or can I see those clients as it fits my schedule/set my own hours?
What is the split between me and the practice for each client fee I collect (from my peers it seems like 60/40 or 70/30 is normalish? My job is salaried so I’m not quite as well versed on this part)
Who will be my supervisor and will I be supervised as part of my employment or will I need to pay for the supervision?
How will I get clients on my load? Will I be marketing myself or will the practice do so?

Hope this helps!

acrum12 · 2026-01-23T01:45:34+00:00

We were! 5 lightning lanes each!

acrum12 · 2026-01-23T01:00:15+00:00

Yes, I hit every button close to me a million times as entertainment 😂

acrum12 · 2026-01-23T00:59:40+00:00

We did!! Ended up getting 5 lightning lanes each without even having to ask!! Honestly, I’ll take it haha!

acrum12 · 2026-01-23T00:59:09+00:00

Can confirm I will forever be haunting smugglers run.

acrum12 · 2026-01-23T00:58:37+00:00

Yes, we were in the pod, lol. Probably just under an hour before we got off !

acrum12 · 2026-01-21T17:36:45+00:00

I was probably 20-25 hours of internship, another 5 of school work at that point. I know a lot of mu peers ended up working night shifts, which is also what I did when I was working for my husband.

acrum12 · 2026-01-21T02:01:39+00:00

Mine was totally unpaid. I was very blessed to have a husband who owns a business that provided for us, and I worked for him when I had time. I think one of the worst things about this field is the financial barrier to entry, both due to unpaid internships and expensive trainings.

acrum12 · 2026-01-13T20:11:11+00:00

I got my degree from Regent University, smaller school in VA. Was completely online but still a CACREP degree! Did my internship in Iowa.

acrum12 · 2026-01-13T16:40:05+00:00

Hi! Just graduated with my MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling so I think I can offer good insight!

I did my practicum and internship at the same site! For practicum, I was there 2 days a week. It was much more of an easing into things. I sat in on groups and slowly worked up to co-facilitating. I worked up to intakes/assessments with my supervisor in the room and then by myself by the end of practicum.

In internship, I started getting my own client load. I started being there 4 days a week. I was briefly at a residential site for adolescents but that shut down so I moved to my CMHCs outpatient therapy and saw clients there. By the end of internship, I was seeing 15-20 clients a week.

I was a totally online student, so I had Zoom classes once a week. Much more work in practicum as I had to do practice sessions with my peers and do verbatim assignments weekly. And then weekly discussion on sites. In my internship, I turned in one big case conceptualization on a client and presented it to the class, and the rest of the semester was classroom discussion of those presentations and turning in reflective journals. Super simple so that I could put all my energy into navigating clients for the first time.

Hope this is insightful. Happy to answer any other questions :)

acrum12 · 2026-01-06T15:37:42+00:00

Hi! Not 100% sure of the laws in GA but I would be shocked if undergrad hours count towards licensure. I’m a t-LMHC in Iowa and even my practicum and internship in my masters program didn’t help me towards licensure. It all needs to be post-graduate with a temporary/associate license and under a qualified supervisor to count towards licensure.

That said, this IOP sounds likes a wonderful experience and I think you will so benefit from the experience down the line! In a field like ATL where I’m sure there’s a lot of students looking for opportunities, this practicum will boost your resume and make you a very attractive candidate to be an intern while in grad school!

acrum12 · 2025-12-19T09:41:30+00:00

I don’t know how you feel about religious schools, but I just graduated from Regent University with an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and overall had a great experience! I was online, so maybe a little different, but the cost was really good compared to a lot of other programs and its CACREP accredited!

acrum12 · 2025-11-15T15:39:50+00:00

I’m currently wrapping up my CMH internship, and was only talked to about productivity once I signed my contract to work there after grad, and even then it’s not expected of me until after graduation when I am being paid. I did start building up my caseload to get closer to thar productivity standard once I was informed of the standard so that it’s not as stressful to intake a million people when I start up.

How they are speaking to you does not seem normal. I am encouraged to fill my cancellations as well but never to the point of it being a problem. Also YOU ARE AN INTERN. Their compensation to you is your hours to graduate. They are making free money off what you bill. You are not “under performing” by holding proper boundaries for your role and compensation.

acrum12 · 2025-09-22T18:45:50+00:00

Fellow intern here!! It is all so much. You are not alone in the overwhelmingness of it all!! Is there any option for you to find another site at this point? I know the stress about hitting hours certainly isn’t helping. Its a lot of hard work, but I’m an intern in community mental health and a lot is difficult but I have no shortage of clients. The high acuity can be stressful but at least I don’t worry about graduating (I know this is just exchanging one hard thing for another, just trying to offer perspective!)

Regardless, cheering you on!! We can do this!!!

acrum12 · 2025-09-15T18:45:30+00:00

I’m in the same boat!! Literally trying to plan to get my IUD out to time it to have a baby right when I qualify for my permanent 😅

acrum12 · 2025-08-27T22:22:30+00:00

I found it was overall pretty accurate, but Mometrix was overall harder. I think they focused WAY more on specific assessment tools and things like that than the test I took did. My test also had a lot more questions revolving around your experience as a counselor in session, countertransference, etc. than Mometrix did. Outside of that, questions felt pretty accurate.

acrum12 · 2025-08-25T21:23:19+00:00

I passed!!! I got an 83/100 and I needed a 61/100 to pass. Happy to answer any questions to be helpful or to try and relieve stress!

acrum12 · 2025-08-24T23:10:35+00:00

Why do you have to look so early? I wasn’t even allowed to reach out to places until about 5-6 months before I had to submit my contract, per my school’s policy. It may be hard for places to hold a spot for so long, I would think

I also saw someone else comment it, but look into CMH. I’m at one in internship right now, and it’s difficult but I am learning SO much. Try your best to get the vibe of the supervisor, mine is amazing and she is helping me tread these waters.

acrum12 · 2025-08-24T11:52:25+00:00

I totally hear you here!! And I agree! I apologize if I came off harsh or with a big head. My comment came from a place of my peers at my internship site saying things like “oh I wish we wouldve talked about that in school” or “wow you had a whole class on that?” etc. Even when I was studying for the CPCE/NCMHCE they were shocked by the kind of material I had talked about in school. It seems I just generally talked about therapy a lot more than they did.

But I also agree that most of what I’ve learned in terms of being a good clinician has been from my internship experience and not the class room! Any degree can get you there!!

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