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The Psychotherapy Training Institute includes training in multiple disciplines including marriage and family therapy, social work, mental health counseling, community/clinical psychology. The program is now serving six graduate schools across two states. The emphasis is on intensive supervision and a firm grounding in theory as a means of ensuring the development of clinical skill.
The Institute operates from a team-oriented approach with 5 supervising clinicians, whom participate in their own development in supervision regularly in an effort to ensure the most current and up-to-date methods of supervision are being utilized to benefit our supervisees.
Intensive supervision includes multiple components structured and tailored to the individual needs of the student. An intern and a resident group, as well as, weekly individual supervision are mandatory requirements of the program. Supervisees are required to videotape sessions and include those in their supervisory experience. There is great emphasis on being in their own psychotherapeutic process to ensure the well-rounded nature of their practice.
Additionally, as a means of enhancing the supervisory experience we are currently using three area psychiatrists for varying types of group supervision/consultation. One of which is focus on children and adolescents, another on psychodynamic work and another specifically on medication management.
Yearly, the provision of four training modules is incorporated into each student’s experience. The goal of the modules is to provide each intern and resident a comprehensive understanding of the utilization of specific treatment models. One module focuses on handling crisis, suicidality, homicidality and CPS calls, the duty to warn, appropriate documentation and handling of subpoenas. Others include working with families from a structural family therapy perspective; integrative couples treatment and a more in-depth view of family of origin work.
In addition to a required reading list for residents, we have also developed an extensive videotape library and reading resource binders to be utilized as resources for supervision each organized by individual, couple, family and spiritual integration. Each one is broken down into theory; assessment; diagnosis and application/intervention. These are used as resources for supervisees to access as they need or want, as well as a way of creating some uniformity across supervisors and the materials they are referencing.
Unlike many other programs, there are currently two AAMFT-Approved Supervisors on staff equipped to provide the necessary supervision for those specifically seeking licensure in the discipline of marriage and family therapy. Typically, such candidates are contracted as individuals to receive supervision and would need not be participating in the internship or residency at the Institute.
Interns at Samaritan will provide psychotherapeutic services to various client populations under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional. Services are provided to individuals, families, couples and groups. More >
The Residency in Psychotherapy provides recent graduates opportunities to develop clinical skills under concentrated supervision at a nationally accredited Samaritan Counseling Center. More >
Faculty Supervisors
- David Olsen, Ph.D., LCSW, LMFT
- Jenness Clairmont, LCSW, LMFT
- Keli Rugenstein, Ph.D., LCSW, LMFT
- Patty Gillen, LCSW, EMDR II
- Michael Quinn LCSW
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