Opal
Careers
Note: If you do not see the “right” job here for you but you believe you have a value alignment with Opal’s work and would like to bring your gifts, passion, and lived experiences to Opal, please email careers@opalfoodandbody.
Opportunities available:
-Intake Specialist
-Milieu Support Specialist
-Mental Health Intern
Intake Specialist -- Part Time or On-CaIl
Opal is hiring a part-time Intake Specialist!
Join our Intake Team and bring your experience working with the public, strong organizational skills, and commitment to helping people access mental health care. Intake Specialists play a vital role at Opal — guiding clients through the admissions process with clarity and compassion, often during times when they are struggling the most. This role offers meaningful client connection along with opportunities for clinical learning and professional growth.
Qualifications: BA/BS required, Licensed therapist or dietitian preferred
Milieu Support Specialist -- Part Time or On-Call
We are hiring on-call and part-time Milieu Therapists. Milieu Therapists offer direct client care for our Partial Hospitalization clients-- supporting clients during meals, snacks, breaks and by co-leading therapy groups of all types. Opportunity includes interdisciplinary collaboration with mental health and medical practitioners that leads to professional learning and growth around eating disorders, weight-inclusive care, RO-DBT, and exercise+sport. Those interested are encouraged to apply at the link below. Please send any questions to Careers@opalfoodandbody.com
Mental Health Counseling and Psychology internship---- Now accepting applications for 2026-2027
Opal: Food+Body Wisdom is looking for mental health counselor and marriage+relationship therapist students for our internship program. Our internship provides excellent supervision and training in the treatment of eating disorders and co-occurring disorders (such as OCD) in a partial hospitalization/intensive outpatient setting from a health at every size perspective. Opal's theoretical orientation is eclectic with an emphasis on radically open dialectical behavior therapy and exposure and response prevention for OCD. Opal specializes in the treatment of athletes and has a stellar exercise and movement program. Interns will receive training in group, relationship and individual therapy for clients in short-term higher level of care. Interns must be in graduate school and actively enrolled in a practicum/internship course. Opal typically begins accepting applications for internship the fall prior to the beginning of placements. Group interviews for internships are usually scheduled for February with final placement offers extended by the end of March. Internships at Opal are one year, 20 hours/week and start and end at the end of Sept each year. We typically have about 3-4 interns at a time.