Residency Program Outcomes

CareNet Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality
Program Outcomes

CareNet Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality is a two-year, post-graduate training program with emphasis in the integration of psychotherapy and spirituality.

The residency assists individuals working towards:

  • Clinical competence
  • State licensure
  • Professional identity formation
  • Clinical and spiritual integration

Graduates of CareNet’s Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality will be able to:

  • Develop therapeutic relationships that help clients stabilize, heal, and grow
  • Articulate a bio-psycho-social-spiritual understanding of human beings and human communities
  • Make use of the self of the therapist to:
    • Connect and join with clients
    • Understand and assess clients
    • Make effective therapeutic interventions
  • Articulate a clinical theory and show evidence of integrating that theory into their work
  • Make accurate clinical diagnoses, develop treatment plans connected to diagnosis, and keep clinical records that document progress towards treatment goals
  • Understand underlying issues and dynamics that are relevant to client’s diagnosis and work towards therapeutic engagement with these underlying issues and dynamics
  • Make therapeutically effective use of transference and countertransference
  • Help clients strengthen capacity for emotional regulation
  • Help clients identify strengths and resources and mobilize those for stabilization and wellness
  • Help clients identify and mobilize spiritual resources
  • Draw upon their own spiritual resources in ethically responsible ways
  • Reflect spiritually on their clients, themselves, and the therapeutic relationship
  • Use supervision and consultation to improve care of their patients and support their own development as therapists
  • Understand the business of psychotherapy and be able to make a living
  • Maintain ethical integrity and know how to consult with colleagues as ethical issues arise
  • Work collaboratively with other providers of care
  • Make appropriate referrals