Master of Marriage and Family Therapy (MMFT)

The program requires 63 credit hours, including a 15 credit hour clinical practicum, and combines academic and clinical experiences. Students can complete the program within two years attending full-time and have a maximum of five years tofinish.Inn addition to the course curriculum, students will complete clinical training. EMERGE Family Therapy Center is a teaching clinic that partners with Converse University to provide the clinical practicum experience. During the 15-month practicum experience, students provide individual, couples, and family therapy to clients with a wide variety of diagnoses, relational problems, and life issues. In order to complete the practicum, students must provide 500 hours of client contact, 250 of which must be relational with more than one member of the client system in the therapy session. In addition, students must have a minimum of 50 hours of group supervision and 50 hours of individual supervision.