Interns begin the year working in conjunction with a staff on-call therapist, providing triage as well as conducting evaluations, crisis intervention, and consultations. Provided they demonstrate sufficient competence, interns are generally expected to assume a more independent role in providing on-call services by the second half of the year. Interns will have two primary supervisors, one for each half of the year. Primary supervisors will provide two hours of regular individual clinical supervision per week for intakes, individual psychotherapy, career assessment and counseling, and crisis intervention services. Additional supervision is available as necessary.
Interns have secondary supervisors for group therapy services and outreach.
May. The majority of these seminars are didactic lecture-discussion programs facilitated by members of the professional staff and other mental health professionals. The topics cover areas necessary for clinical practice in a university counseling center. A subset of the training seminars is dedicated to case seminars. These involve formal case presentations by the interns to each other, the Director of Training, and other professional staff. Interns are expected to lead two case seminars per year.