Practicum Information
The Marital and Family Therapy program contains two separate traineeships which are contracted by the department to meet the educational, geographic, and specific interests of the student. The first year traineeship consists of sixteen hours per week while the second year traineeship involves twenty hours each week. In both settings on-site clinical supervision and art therapy supervision are provided and the student is able to accumulate up to 840 hours with 420 direct client contact hours toward licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Individual, family and group therapy are included in the training experience. These traineeships are designed to foster student growth by allowing for the development and practice of clinical skills.
Supervisors work under contract with our department to closely monitor and support the clinical training of our students while they are gaining their trainee hours in the practicum setting.
Supervisors are chosen from both our alumni and the staff of agencies where our students are placed for traineeships.
Selected list of agencies where past students have received their practicum training:
- Aviva Child and Family Services, North Hollywood
- Bay Area Addiction, Research and Treatment, Los Angeles
- Carmelitos Housing Authority of Los Angeles, Long Beach
- Casa Youth Shelter, Los Alamitos
- Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
- Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center, Culver City
- Dubnoff Center for Child Development, North Hollywood
- Exceptional Children Foundation--Kayne Eras Center
- Exodus Recovery Inc, Los Angeles
- Gay and Lesbian Community Service Center, Hollywood
- Guidance Center of Long Beach
- Hathaway- Sycamores Child and Family Services, Los Angeles
- The H.E.L.P Group, Sherman Oaks
- Huntington Hospital Outpt Services, Pasadena
- Los Angeles Child Guidance Center, Los Angeles
- LAUSD School Mental Health Family Resource Center, Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Youth Network, Hollywood
- OPICA, West LA
- Orange County Department of Education ACCESS Program, Orange County
- Pacific Clinics, Pasadena
- Pacific Lodge Youth Services, Woodland Hills
- Partnership to Uplift Communities, Los Angeles
- Phoenix House, Los Angeles,
- Sherman Oaks Hospital, Sherman Oaks
- Silver Lake Medical Center, Rosemead
- Star View Services, South Bay
- Sylmar Health and Rehab Center, Sylmar
- Tarzana Treatment Center, Long Beach
- Venice Family Clinic
- Ventura County Department of Behavioral Health
- Vista Del Mar Community of Services, West Los Angeles
- The Whole Child
- Wise and Healthy Aging