Students in the Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program participate in two clinical experiences, a 100-hour practicum and a 600-hour internship. This professional practice provides for the application of theory and the development of counseling skills under supervision. These experiences provide opportunities for students to counsel clients who represent the ethnic and demographic diversity of the community.
We have a wide range of practicum and internship sites where students are regularly placed. These sites cover a wide variety of settings including: addiction recovery centers, business and industry, K-12 schools, colleges and universities (counseling centers and disability resource centers), mental health clinics (outpatient, partial hospitalization programs, and intensive outpatient programs), corrections facilities, hospitals and medical centers, insurance companies, private practices, psychiatric rehabilitation facilities (residential treatment and social rehabilitation centers), state vocational rehabilitation agencies, Veterans’ Administration agencies, and workers’ compensation agencies.
Current sites include, but are not limited to:
- Carnegie Mellon University CaPS
- Carnegie Mellon University Office of Disability Resources
- Elliot Counseling
- Emerge Therapy
- Forward Wellness
- Hiram G. Andrews Center (HGAC)
- Makin Wellness
- Open Space Counseling, Consulting, & Wellness
- People's Oakland
- Pittsburgh Mercy - Adult Diversion & Acute Stabilization Program
- Pittsburgh Mercy - Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program
- Pittsburgh Public Schools
- Pressley Ridge
- Primary Care Health Services, Inc.
- Re:solve Crisis Network
- ReMed
- Renewal, Inc.
- Sally and Howard Levin Clubhouse
- SHRS Wellness Pavilion
- Tadiso, Inc.
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
- University of Pittsburgh Counseling Center
- University of Pittsburgh, Office of Disability Resources and Services
- Untethered Therapy
- UPMC Services for Teens at Risk (STAR Center)
- UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Bellefield Intensive Outpatient Programs
- UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders (CADD)
- UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Center for Eating Disorders
- UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Services for the Treatment of Early Psychoses (STEP)/Center for Recovery Services
- Wesley Family Services
We are continuously developing new sites based on student interests and needs.