Students will learn evidence-based approaches for treating individual, couple, and family concerns such as (the below list is not exhaustive):
  • Individual: Depression, anxiety, bi-polar, trauma (child, adolescent, adult), ADHD, eating disorders, substance abuse, grief, stress associated with life transitions, anger, and conduct problems.
  • Couple: Relationship satisfaction, communication and conflict resolution skills, recovering from an affair, treating couples where domestic violence is prevalent, sexual and intimacy concerns.
  • Family: Behavioral issues with children/teens, parent-child relationships, parenting skills, family communication and conflict resolution skills. 

THERAPY APPROACHES LEARNED ​

General Therapies
·     Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
·     Dialectical Behavior Therapy
·     Motivational Interviewing
·     Cognitive Processing for the Treatment of Trauma
·     Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
·     Narrative Therapy
·     Bowen Family Therapy
·     Structural Family Therapy
·     Strategic Family Therapy
·     Experiential Family Therapy
·     Attachment-Based Family Therapy
·     Common Factors Approach
Couple Therapies
·      Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
·      Integrative Couples Behavioral Therapy
·      Gottman’s Method of Couples Therapy
·      The Infidelity Model for couples recovering from an affair
·      Discernment Counseling for helping couples deciding whether to end
​       a relationship
·      Helping couples with Intimate Partner Violence
·      Sex Therapy Approaches
Play Therapies
·      Sandtray Therapy
·      Filial Play Therapy
·      Theraplay
·      Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
·      Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral
​       Therapy with Children and Adolescents