Mental Health Counselor Relationship Intern Unpaid

Job Title: Mental Health Counselor Relationship Management Intern
 

Department: External Relations / Outreach
 

Location: Remote

Duration: 4 Months, 5 Hours a Week (Flexible schedule around midterms and finals)

Compensation: Unpaid / Academic Credit Available
 

What You’ll Be Doing:
 

Connect directly with therapists, counselors, and mental health organizations across the country. Our goal is to pass federal legislation through the U.S. Congress that funds emotional education in schools and creates free public counseling programs for local communities.
 

You will reach out to mental health professionals to share our mission, build strong partnerships, and bring their expert voices into our national movement to prevent school violence, reduce youth depression, and teach healthy emotional habits early in life.

Key Responsibilities:
 

• Contact mental health professionals, counseling centers, and advocacy groups across the nation to introduce our organization and explain our proposed legislation.
• Help create strong, long-term relationships with therapists and mental health advocates who want to see national policy changes.
• Collect insights, ideas, and stories from practicing counselors to help show lawmakers why funding school emotional education is urgent.
• Track contact details, email replies, and meeting notes in simple spreadsheets so our team can follow up reliably.
• Help organize online meetings, surveys, or outreach campaigns aimed at getting more mental health advocates and experts involved in our movement
   

Qualifications:

• Current or incoming college student interested in psychology, counseling, social work, political science, public policy, any kind of communications, nonprofit management, or related fields
• At least 18 in compliance with volunteer laws
• Strong, clear communication skills with a friendly and respectful tone when speaking to healthcare professionals.
• High attention to detail and good organizational habits 
• Comfortable using basic tools like Google Sheets or Excel
• Phone etiquette
• Can reliably commit to contributing 5 hours a week for 4 months (exceptions for Finals and Midterms) 
• Can commit to consistently checking messages across your email and company software account