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Cohort for Fall 2013: Thank you for your interest in the ULM Marriage and
Family Therapy program. The application deadline for Fall 2012 has
passed; therefore, we are no longer accepting applications for the Fall 2012
cohorts. Should you submit an application, please know that your
application will be considered for the Fall 2013 cohort. Acceptance
decisions will not be made until after March 1, 2013.
If you have any questions about the application process, please feel free
to contact our Main Office at 318.342.1208 or our Recruiting Office at
318.342.1251.
|  MINDFEST
(awareness event for mental health) and the Open Houses for the
Community Counseling Clinic and Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic held at ULM on May 3, 2012 is marked as a great success
News coverage included:
The News Star article
The News Star photo gallery
KTVE Morning Show-May 2, 2012-Peggy Buffington appearance at 6:30
am
KNOE Morning Show-May 3, 2012-Peggy Buffington appearance at
6:45 am
KNOE news story
|  The
4th Judicial District Court has become the state's model for change in
the juvenile justice system due to joined efforts of ULM, thought the
$385,000 Models For Change grant funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Jana Sutton, was the Prinical Investiagor on the grant.
Read the News Star article |  MFT Clinic New Location! We want to welcome you to our beautifully renovated clinic now located in
500 Bayou Drive
Strauss Hall #112
Monroe, LA 71209
Contact us for more information at our new number 342-5678
Download our flyer and map here |  Bradford Keeney, Ph.D.,
ULM Professor and Hanna Spyker Eminent Scholars Chair in Education Dr.
Bradford Keeney and Dr. Hillary Keeney,
distinguished visiting
professor, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico, are
featured in the article, "Reimagining Psychotherapy: An Interview with
Hillary and Bradford Keeney", by Paul Gibney. Published in Psychotherapy in Australia (May, 2012), the journal editor writes: "Bradford Keeney, one of the great thinkers of family therapy, and Hillary Keeney,
a scholar of cybernetics and creative transformation, offer a wake up
call to therapists to reinvent their practice, and recognize that models
dumb them down and prevent them from finding their own gifts and
talents." The article concludes that the Keeneys work "might be the frame of psychotherapy’s next evolutionary space."
View news brief |  Dr. Bethany Simmons was a guest interviewer on KEDM. Listen to her conversation about starting out a new year can mean making changes in your life. Dr.
Bethany Simmons, Director of the MFT Clinic, said that improving
relationships can often give that added boost to any resolutions for the
new year...
Listen to the full podcast here | 
PhD in MFT with a non-clinical concentration in creative systemic studies, fully online (GOLD) This is
a non-COAMFTE accredited cohort program of professionals. | |
| Marriage & Family Therapy Programs: ULM is one of approximately a dozen universities in the U.S. offering both a COAMFTE M.A. and
CACREP Ph.D. degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. The
Ph.D. degree program in Marriage and Family Therapy at University of
Louisiana at Monroe prepares graduates for careers as
scholars/teachers, researchers, supervisors and senior clinicians. The
69 credit-hour program integrates systemically oriented philosophy
and theory, clinical practice and qualitative and quantitative research.
The M.A. degree program is an intensive, 60 credit-hour program
requiring two years of full-time study. Graduates of the program meet
academic requirements for licensure as a professional counselor in
Louisiana as well as Clinical Membership of AAMFT and licensure in
other states as marriage and family therapists. The program is
dedicated to educating highly qualified masters level clinicians and
scholars.
Recent graduates from the ULM program have found employment in settings such as:- private practice
- program directors at hospitals
- directors of services at homes for children
- therapists performing a variety of services with a wide range of problems in mental health
Graduates
are also active in family life education and enrichment in a variety of
contexts. Approximately 10-15% of the graduates from the ULM program
have pursued doctorates in marriage and family therapy or related
fields.
Download our program brochure here
For further information and application materials: Main Office:
Strauss Hall #306
700 University Avenue
Monroe, LA 71209
(318) 342-1246
Gail Lane, MFT Recruiter (318) 342-1251
lanebg@warhawks.ulm.edu
Dr. Jana Sutton, MFT Programs Director
-M.A. and Ph.D. programs
(318)342-1208 sutton@ulm.edu
Dr. Marcela Polanco, Assistant Professor
-Ph.D. online program
(318) 342-1349 polanco@ulm.edu |
