Clinical Training
Texas Tech's Marriage and Family Clinic serves clients from West Texas and Eastern New Mexico with referrals from physicians, inpatient facilities, courts, school systems, social service agencies, and therapists in private practice.
All students see clients in the Texas Tech Family Therapy Clinic with live and videotaped individual and group supervision provided by the full-time faculty. All Ph.D. students must accumulate 1000 direct client contact hours by doing therapy at the Clinic, through funded practicum sites, a clinical internship, and/or through transfer of hours from a COAMFTE accredited MFT Master’s program. The on-site clinic consists of seven large therapy rooms equipped with one-way mirrors, observation rooms, and videotape equipment, along with a clinic office, a therapist staff office, and a waiting area.
In addition, all students receive extensive help in locating an appropriate site for the required nine-month doctoral internship. Current internship and external practicum sites include:
- Employee Assistance Program through the Department of Neuropsychiatry.
- Women’s Protective Services
- Parent Empowerment Project
- Early Head Start
- Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center