The 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 a maximum of 856 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 students receive their practicum training:

• Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
• Coalition of Mental Health Professionals, Los Angeles
• Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center, Culver City
• Dubnoff Center, North Hollywood
• Guidance Center, Long Beach
• Hathaway Children’s Services, Sylmar
• The HELP Group, Culver City
• Intercommunity Child Guidance Center, Whittier
• Jewish Family Services of Long Beach
• Julia Ann Singer Center, Los Angeles
• Kayne Eras, Culver City
• Little Company of Mary/San Pedro Hospital, Torrance and San Pedro
• Los Angeles Child Guidance
• Magnolia Park School, Burbank
• Pacific Clinics, Pasadena
• Phoenix House, Santa Fe Springs
• Ronald McDonald House, Los Angeles
• San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care, San Diego
• Sherman Oaks Partial Hospitalization, Los Angeles
• Vista Del Mar Child Care Services, Los Angeles