Externship

• Externs carry individual caseloads averaging 8-10 client hours per week.  This might include conducting initial same day sessions, engaging in short term individual therapy, or facilitating group therapy. 
• Externs will lead psychoeducational groups each semester.  As opportunities become available, externs may choose to co-lead a therapy group with a staff member or doctoral intern. Externs who co-lead therapy groups will be provided with additional supervision. See the Counseling Groups page for examples of groups offered at the Counseling Center.
• Externs will be involved in facilitating outreach programs. Examples of outreach and consultation programs might include student development workshops, orientation workshops, and programs with the residence halls and the Center for Student Diversity.

Senior staff provide one hour per week of individual supervision and one hour of group supervision to externs in the fall semester. Senior staff and doctoral interns provide two hours of individual supervision per week in the spring semester. Supervision includes discussion of case management, assessment and treatment issues, and general issues pertaining to each extern’s Counseling Center experience. Rotation of supervisors occurs at the half-year mark. Matching of externs and supervisors will attempt to take into account the special training needs of individual externs.

Externs meet as a group once a week for one hour for extern seminar. Seminar time includes case conferences, presentations by senior staff and doctoral interns on topics of special interest to externs, and discussions of general externship issues.