Shine a Light Counseling Center.

What it is

The organization, from its own site.

A nonprofit counseling organization operating Central Coast offices in Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Watsonville and Monterey, plus New Perspectives Center for Counseling in San Francisco. Its own pages describe an organization built substantially around trainee and associate clinicians.

Its site: shinealight.info.

What its site publishes about training

A program its own pages describe.

Each statement below is what the organization’s own site said on 20 August 2026, with the page it said it on. A program existing on a page is not a seat existing today — the page is where you check.

Its internships page states that it provides employment and supervision for MFT, PCC and MSW associates and trainees and accepts practicum and post-graduate internship inquiries. The page that says so →

The Central Coast internships are in person, not telehealth-only. The organization says it is particularly interested in Spanish-speaking therapists. The page that says so →

Its support page publishes 73 intern therapists, 6–22 clients per intern per week and a $53,000 average annual part-time intern salary. Those are organization-wide published figures, not a promised offer for every role. The page that says so →

Before you write to anyone

The three questions that protect your hours.

A trainee cannot count hours from a private practice or a professional corporation — § 4980.43.3 draws that line, and the trainee rules page walks all seven of the rules that decide whether a placement counts. A registered associate has a wider map; both start from the same three questions: who signs the supervision paperwork and on what schedule, which settings the hours would come from, and — for a trainee — whether your program’s site agreement exists yet, because § 4980.42 puts that agreement on your school, not on you.

The whole search method — whose job the search is, the order that saves cycles, and the paper trail to keep — is on the how-to-find-a-practicum-site page. This profile is one shelf of it; the full Bay Area shelves are the practicum-sites directory and the associate-employers directory.

Where every figure came from

Sources.

This profile records what the organization’s own site published on the read date, and nothing else. It is not a statement about today, it is not an endorsement, and it is not legal advice. Sites change; the links above are where to check.