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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Couple and Family Therapy, at Council for Relationships (CFR), is a comprehensive experience, bringing together course work, clinical practice, and supervision at one of the nation's pre-eminent couple and family therapy centers. Council for Relationships continues to be a leader in the field, providing a broad range of clinical services, conducting clinical research and advancing the professional literature in the areas of couple and family therapy.

Our affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University, the intermingling of our mental health and clergy training tracks, the sex therapy program and our multi-disciplinary faculty, provide a stimulating and diverse learning environment.

Highlights

• Established in 1948, the couple and family therapy Training Program is one of the oldest and most respected training programs in the nation.
• Accredited by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy since 1972
• Specialized tracks for mental health professionals and clergy
• Sex Therapy Certification
• An experienced, diverse, multi-disciplinary faculty
• All faculty are full time clinicans
• Intensive live and videotaped supervision
• Supervisors are licensed mental health professionals
• LMFT supervisors are also AAMFT approved supervisors
• Cases provided at our main office and satellite locations
• Full-time (one year) and part-time (2-4 year) training options available
• Post Graduate Program has the flexibility to address work schedules and geographical considerations
• All academic courses and workshop offer CE credits approve by APA (American Psychological Association)

 Program Options

The program is designed to fulfill a variety of training needs for clinicians and clergy.

• Completion of the AAMFT certification program in couple and family therapy (meets all academic requirements and partial clinical requirements for AAMFT membership)
• Completion of AAMFT certification program in couple and family therapy meets all academic requirements and partial clinical requirements for licensure as MFT in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
• Completion of individual didactic courses for clinicians who want to extend their knowledge of systems-oriented therapy (graduate-level credit available through Widener University)
• Ongoing supervision options

Our Treatment and Training Approach

The treatment and training model that guides our approach to couple, sex and family therapy is the Intersystem Model. This model, developed by Council for Relationships' training faculty, is an integrated multi-systems approach that attends to individual, interactional, intergenerational and larger systems dynamics.

Faculty

The Training Program is staffed by a highly experienced and distinguished team of over 20 AAMFT-approved supervisors, all of whom maintain active clinical practices and provide a wide range of expertise in the field of couple and family therapy. Many faculty members have clinical appointments with the Department of Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University, Widener University and other colleges and universities throughout the region, and have significantly contributed to the professional literature in the field.

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