Each year the Counseling Center takes on one graduate student for practicum training.
Students receive a minimum of one to two hours per week of individual supervision.
Initially the focus is on getting the student up to speed with procedures, ethics, interviewing techniques, treatment planning, and report writing. As students become more proficient, the emphasis is shifted somewhat to helping the student develop his or her own personal therapeutic style. This involves thinking through the philosophical and theoretical aspects of psychotherapy as well as personal and professional development issues. The primary supervisor's orientation is constructive-developmental, but student's are not expected to follow any particular theoretical orientation as a prerequisite for this training experience. For more information contact the Counseling Center Director .