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:
-Mental Health Therapist
-Psychiatric Provider
-Mental Health Intern
Mental Health Therapist -- Full Time
We are hiring a full-time Mental Health Therapist for our Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient eating disorder treatment program. Come join a collaborative team of mental health practitioners, aiming to free our clients from diet culture and food, body, and exercise concerns.
In-person required.
License in Washington state required.
See below for details about the FreeBird program, special perk for Opal Clinical Staff.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner -- Part Time
We are hiring a part-time Psychiatric Provider. Main duty is medication management for clients in Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient eating disorder treatment program. Come join a collaborative team of mental health practitioners, aiming to free our clients from diet culture and food, body, and exercise concerns.
We are aiming to hire an in-person provider 3-4 days a week, totally 20+ hours per week. Virtual option available. In-person preferred.
License in Washington state required.
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.
We do not offer dietetic internships at this time.
Freebird Program
Opal offers a Freebird program to clinical employees as an added benefit.
The Opal Freebird Program was developed to support Opal clinical staff who wish to maintain a private practice while working at Opal.
Purpose
- To support staff in their interest to build or sustain a private practice while working at Opal.
- To promote collaborative care for clients stepping down from PHP/IOP to outpatient, or stepping up from outpatient into Opal’s higher level of care.
Office space
Employees can use Opal office space to see private practice clients.
Supervision
Supervision done as a part of employment at Opal can include discussing private practice clients.
Referrals + Promotion
Freebirds can promote their private practice to current Opal clients and have a smooth referral process between Opal and private practice.