⚠️ Please read carefully before proceeding. You will not be able to save the application and complete it at a later time once you begin, so please have the following prepared before starting the application:
1) Resume (doc, docx, pdf)
2) Reference Information
3) Your personal statement (doc, docx, pdf)
4) Your clinical summary (doc, docx, pdf)
Reference Information - 3 total (Someone from your profession, one of your professors, someone of your own choice)
You'll be listing their names and contact information and sending them the reference form. They'll complete the reference and return directly to us.
Personal Statement: Your personal statement should not be more than 3 single-spaced typed pages, and should address the following:
1. A brief autobiography, including what you believe to be the most significant formative experiences in your life.
2. Your spiritual history.
3. Ways your personal history is a resource and/or a challenge for you as a therapist.
4. Your reasons for making application for this training, including why spiritual formation and theological integration are important to you in your work as a therapist.
5. Any special interests you hope to address or develop during this training.
6. Anything else you believe it is important for us to know about you.
Clinical summary: Your clinical summary should be a two-page (single-spaced) summary of your work with a client.
Include the following: client identifying information (other than name), presenting issue, number of sessions, clinical diagnosis, spiritual assessment of the client, the theoretical perspective that helped you work with the client, summary of the therapy, how working with this client affected you (personally, spiritually, educationally, etc.).
If you have not worked in a context that allowed you to do counseling, upload a two-page (single-spaced) summary of a situation in which you were in the role of helper. Include as much of the information from the above paragraph as you can.