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Counseling |
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Graduate School of Education |
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Dr. Susan Halverson-Westerberg |
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As chair of the Couples, Marriage and Family specialty of the Graduate School of Education’s Counseling Program, Susan Halverson-Westerberg trains her students to look at their clients’ worlds from a systems perspective because people function in systems, not as isolates. Susan is a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional counselor and has been a certified school counselor. Susan also is a practitioner of Play Therapy where children use their play as words to describe and resolve their problems. These various hats come together in her courses in Couples, Marriage and Family Therapy and School Counseling. As Clinical Coordinator of the Counselor Education Program at PSU, Susan wants the public to know about PSU’s Community Counseling Clinic which is the crowning jewel of the counseling program. Not only does the clinic provide service to a public that often can not afford to seek private therapy, but it gives practicum students the opportunity to train in a fully operational clinic under the direct tutelage of counseling interns and faculty, in preparation for agency based internship. Individually supervised practicum students see individuals, couples, families and children at two clinic locations on campus. One is on the fifth floor of the Graduate School of Education and the second at the Helen Gordon Child Development Center. |
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Mailing address Graduate School of Education Counseling Portland State University |
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Contact Information |
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Office 504-A ED Phone: 503-725-8106 |
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Counselor Education Program |