Graduate Counseling - Marriage and Family Therapy

Indiana Wesleyan University seeks to develop the highest quality of professional competence upon entering Marriage and Family Therapy practice. The 60-hour MFT program is interpersonal in focus and holistic in approach, emphasizing family systems within each student's Christian worldview context. Evidence-based approaches in the field are given high priority in the curriculum. Students learn to engage with classic systemic models as well as more contemporary and postmodern approaches. Students benefit from our strongly interpersonal approach, and enjoy close interaction with faculty members. Marriage and family therapy becomes an intimate community, a source of shared faith, knowledge, and friendship.

Through our new state-of-the-art therapy and research center, MFT students are exposed to regular video recording and monitoring of their own and classmate's therapy sessions, supervision with video recordings, live supervision through two-way mirrors, and numerous research opportunities. Students are also exposed to a variety of learning environments through the classroom, practicum experience, and internship placements.

We anticipate that our graduates will become leaders and public servants who thoughtfully address contemporary challenges such as troubled marriages, child concerns, single parenting, divorce, reconstituted families, and so forth. MFT students are trained to work with individual clients in a manner that is consistent with their own budding philosophy of marriage and family therapy. Emphasis is placed on each student grappling with their own understanding of why therapy is successful, i.e., what is one's own theory of change within the therapeutic context?

Marriage and Family Therapy students must complete 100 practicum hours and 900 internship hours (1000 hours total).The 60-hour program curriculum is designed to meet the academic requirements for licensure as a marriage and family therapist in the state of Indiana.

To learn more about the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Indiana Wesleyan University or to apply for admissions call or email the Graduate Admissions Office at 1-800-895-0036 or graduate@indwes.edu.