Opal
Careers

We are seeking professionals who have a passion to be a part of a collaborative team approach to eating disorder treatment in the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient levels of care.   
We are a center that was founded on Health at Every Size®, aims to be athlete friendly, and utilizes Radically Open Dialectical Therapy throughout our treatment.
Opal has a long range commitment to work against systems that breed eating disorders. Therefore, we are seeking to hire individuals that are wanting to make incremental changes in alignment with Opal’s values. 
 
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.com with your interest and career ideas. 

Want to work at Opal?

Opportunities available:

-Part Time Milieu Therapist

-Mental Health Intern

Part Time Milieu Therapist

We are hiring 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 Steph@opalfoodandbody.com

Mental Health Counseling and Psychology internship---- Now accepting applications

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.

We do not offer dietetic internships at this time.