For additional requirements for the Integral Health emphasis see the admissions section following the description of that emphasis. The Clement Counseling Center is a professional training facility for students at CIIS who are pursuing a Somatic orientation in their therapeutic work. As a community service the center offers affordable psychotherapy based on an integral perspective. Using didactic and experiential training sessions and group process exploration, the center provides students with an opportunity to integrate a body-oriented psychotherapy approach with other therapeutic modalities. Each student counselor works with a specified number of clients in individual, couple, family, or group counseling situations.
Students work at the center for at least three consecutive semesters.
Licensed counselors and psychotherapists from the professional community and Institute faculty provide supervision. The Integral Health Education Emphasis is designed to train graduate students to apply principles, values, and knowledge of integral health in various health and educational settings. By combining Counseling Psychology courses and requirements for the Integral Health Education certificate, the emphasis provides a way for students to bring Integral Health Education, Somatics, and Counseling Psychology perspectives to their work with clients and communities. Students are trained to act as agents of change-as health educators and counselors who increase options for health in individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. An Integral Approach to Health Education and Counseling The concept and practice of Integral Health challenges and expands the Western scientific explanatory model of health and healing by integrating Indigenous, Asian, and alternative or complementary Western philosophies and by acknowledging the mental, emotional, and spiritual realms of health.