My internship at Veteran’s Medical Center Program was a professionally rich experience. There were seminars and supervision in individual psychotherapy, in sex therapy and in cognitive/behavioral therapy. The internship also included an intensive training program in couples and family therapy under the direction of many accomplished therapists. Additionally, I was supervised in group therapy, structural strategic therapy, and in mental health consultation. There was also exposure to milieu therapy and geriatric and adult inpatient rotations.

After completion of academic requirements, I went to work for the State of Arizona’s Mental Health System. The staff was a friendly, relaxed group that specialized in providing mental health services to the seriously mentally ill and their partners. I was closely supervised on cognitive restructuring modalities, types, solution focused interventions and techniques of symptom monitoring and reduction. I also developed and led therapy groups.

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