Pre-Doctoral Therapy Practicum

 

The Minnesota State Mankato Counseling Center provides a range of psychological services to the Minnesota State Mankato community (enrollment 15,000+).  Services include short-term counseling, individual assessment, crisis intervention, referral, outreach, consultation, training, and service on university committees and task forces.  The Minnesota State Mankato Counseling Center is accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS), one of only five IACS-accredited centers in Minnesota and one of less than 200 accredited in the nation.  Our center has provided training to over 30 psychology doctoral students since 1992.

 

Full-time and part-time students currently enrolled at Minnesota State Mankato are eligible to use the services of the Counseling Center.  The population served by the university's counseling center is diverse and includes traditional-aged and nontraditional-aged students, undergraduate and graduate students, and international students from over sixty countries.  As a large public institution, we encounter a wide range of presenting problems, diagnoses and levels of functioning.  Many clients present with depression, anxiety, relationship and family-of-origin issues.

 

Staff:  The Counseling Center professional staff is composed of five psychologists, plus trainees.  The staff represent a variety of theoretical orientations.  We typically have several practicum students annually.

 

Goal:  The goal of the practicum is, first and foremost, to provide high quality training and supervision in the provision of outpatient psychotherapy, with an emphasis on consolidating psychotherapeutic competencies generalizable to a variety of mental health delivery settings.

 

Supervision:  Two-day per week psychotherapy practicum students receive two hours of individual supervision per week.  In addition, practicum students attend the center's weekly Case Conference.   

 

Internship Mentoring:  We understand that during the fall of the therapy practicum year, many doctoral students will be applying to internship sites for the following year.  To assist with this often stressful process, an optional internship mentoring component is offered to help our practicum students with the process of selecting and applying to internship sites.

 

Dates: Academic year.

 

Location: Mankato is a community of about 60,000, located 80 miles southwest of the Twin Cities, less than a 90-minute drive from the Twin Cities.   

 

Application:  Address inquiries to and/or send curriculum vitae, statement of interest, unofficial transcript, and the names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three references [including previous clinical supervisor(s)] to:

 

Counseling Center

Minnesota State University, Mankato

245 Centennial Student Union

Mankato, MN 56001

Telephone: (507) 389-1455

 

Application Deadline:  Applications will be accepted until the available practicum positions are filled.