I don’t miss those days. My condolences to her. When I was a student the rule was you had to do a year in community mental health type setting during school as

I don’t miss those days. My condolences to her. When I was a student the rule was you had to do a year in community mental health type setting during school as an internship prior to graduation. I forget the exact hours requirement. It was supposed to be a learning experience but almost all of us were just put to work with a full caseload from day 1, paid $0 and hour, and the agency billed on our behalf. It was very burnout inducing to be making nothing working in the setting you describe. Then you’d graduate and get to have the honor of making $15-25/hour, the low end of which was offered over at target. It’s also why I don’t understand how those programs struggle so much. AFAIK the practice continues to this day and it means they have a sea of interns providing free labor. The interns don’t get the same session rate as a fully licensed therapist but at the same time they literally cost $0/hour, they are slave labor. Medicaid and the community mental health system is built on it. It’s why low SES individuals are by default used to never having the same therapist for more than a few months or so; the turnover is crazy