Clinical Internship

Hands-on clinical experience coupled with intensive individual and group supervision to ensure a high level of clinical competency.

The clinic offers students the opportunity to work with a diverse number of client populations. An integral part of The Family Institute, the Bette D. Harris Family and Child Clinic is committed to offering quality, affordable treatment to individuals, couples and families regardless of their ability to pay.

1. Students gain hands-on clinical experience under the close supervision of highly experienced marriage and family therapists.
2. Students begin seeing clients in November of their first year and continue seeing clients until they graduate, accumulating a minimum of 500 hours of face-to-face contact with clients, including at least 250 hours with couples and families.  Students will obtain more than 250 hours of group and individual supervision over the 2 years.
3. Supervision is conducted weekly. Supervision methods include live supervision and videotape/audiotape recordings of students’ therapy sessions.

Build your future on a solid theoretical and clinical approach

Systemic, integrative family therapy, pioneered at The Family Institute, addresses emotional, behavioral and relational problems in the context of both familial and extra-familial relationships. The influences of biology, psychodynamics, gender, socioeconomic status, culture and life cycle are used to help clients understand and address their problems.

For further review of Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks, see Pinsof (1995) Integrative problem centered therapy and Breunlin, Schwartz, and MacKune-Karrer (2001) Metaframeworks.