Helping children, youth, young adults, and their families find their path to healing and hope is at the core of our work. We can only achieve this by striving for excellence and providing an array of services that are needed and wanted by the community we serve. We are continuing to expand our programs and locations where we provide services with therapists in more schools and social service agencies. As we expand to serve more than 800 children, youth, and young adults each month – regardless of payer, gender identity, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, or place of origin – we do so with the intention that we would want our own families to use these services should they need them.  Read more about our services at www.ryther.org/services.

Ryther offers a broad continuum of services for young people experiencing disordered eating. Our ED Inpatient Services include a Partial Hospitalization Program and a new Residential Treatment Program opening in Fall 2024. Our Outpatient ED programs include Intensive Outpatient and general outpatient services. These programs utilize evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E).

Potential learning activities at the micro level:
-Provide milieu management and behavioral support
-Provide meal support
-Provide individual and family therapy with a variety of outpatient clients (Advanced standing, clinical MSW only)
-Gain experience with in-person and virtual therapy
-Sharpen your skills through individual and group supervision weekly

For a full description of this practicum placement, go to: https://www.ryther.org/ed-inpatient-learning-pathway

Potential learning activities at the mezzo level:
-Co-facilitate psychoeducation and therapeutic groups
-Collaborate at weekly team support team meetings
-Learn from weekly clinical consultations, including psychiatric and nutritional consult meetings
-Participate in agency committees related to equity and social justice

Potential learning activities at the macro level:
-Explore application of human rights, anti-oppression lenses, and research to clinical work via group supervision
-Apply macro theories to community mental health organization context as relevant to clinical work

Strong interested in working with eating disorders is necessary. No specific experience required but experience working with young people and/or disordered eating in some capacity is an asset.

Additional requirements include:
-Available to attend required team consults as follows:
Bachelor’s and first year/generalist master’s students must attend in-person Thursdays 1:15-2:15
Clinical/advanced master’s students must attend meetings on Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 (in-person) and Fridays 8:30-11am (virtual)
-Successfully complete CBT-E and meal support trainings (provided by Ryther)
-Available mostly for in-person work at our North Seattle campus. Occasionally virtual meetings, trainings, and supervisions will be available virtually.

Read more about Ryther's practicum programming and apply at www.ryther.org/learning.