Clinical Services
Mission
We realize that you come to the College Internship Program with your own history of setbacks and successes, experiences with education and therapy and expectations for your future.
The mission of the clinical program is to assist you in understanding your past, and your learning differences, and to reframe these into new goals, building upon your assets. This will help you to establish a solid foundation for a fulfilling, productive future.
Support For Success
The counseling program provides essential support and direction for you as you strive to take charge of your life, acknowledge and accept your own strengths and areas to improve in, set clear goals for yourself, and then go forward to accomplish them.
This process is challenging for most young adults. The past and present impact of your learning differences make the task that much more difficult. As a college student, you will participate in individual and group counseling, to help you master this crucial process of personal growth. All therapists are licensed and have extensive experience working with students with learning differences.
Charles Houff, Clinical Director
Individual Counseling
Individual counseling involves a confidential, caring relationship in which you receive support and guidance in dealing with day-to-day challenges and frustrations and then learn more about your ability to shape and manage your life. You will meet with the counselor once a week.
Often there is a coaching quality to counseling. Typical areas of this personal work include: self-esteem and self-confidence, learning about feelings and needs, empowerment and self-advocacy, social functioning, healthy relationships, problem solving and effective communication.
Through links with your advisor, academic, vocational and residential coordinators, your counselor can help you to generalize these skills so that you can assess them in real life situations.
Lis Wheeler, Therapist
Group Counseling
Group counseling provides a safe, supportive setting for you to talk with other students about everyday interests and issues. Part of each session focuses on a general topic selected by the counselor. Since each group includes students from the same apartment(s), the group session also provides a chance to work out any problems of living together.
There is time for members to bring up their own individual concerns as well. In the process of discussing these topics, members give and receive feedback, learn how to support and be supported, improve social and communication skills, and develop healthy relationships.
Consulting Psychiatric Services
Medication can be an important therapeutic support for some students. If medication is a helpful tool for you, a consulting psychiatrist will meet with you to assure that your medication continues to be safe and effective. You will be encouraged to be self-medicating to be at CIP, however, a Medication Coordinator will meet with you once a week to help you keep your medications organized.
Consulting Medical Services
Students are referred to local physicians and specialists for any medical issues. You will utilize your own health insurance or your family will be billed directly for these services.
Supplementary Services:
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Occupational Therapy:
- Individual appointments
- Department consultation
- Sensory integration class
- Bio-Medical: Hyperbarics
- Nutritional intervention
- Neurofeedback
- Auditory Integration Therapy