Marriage and Family Therapist

This site is dedicated to MFTs and MFT's in training.
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If you have a topic you would like discussed please send it in.  I will post the topic and solicit comments.
 

 Flash:

In California, where the term MFT has recently replaced the label MFCC, there are currently 23965 licensed MFTs and 8452 registered interns as of August 1999.

This is 3 times the number of Licensed Clinical Social workers and  more than 5 times the number of licensed Educational Psychologists registered by the same board.

Job opportunities nationwide for MFT's continue to grow.  They include school counseling contracts, seminar leaders, hospital positions, corporate training, teaching positions, custody and court assessments, writing, and the old stand-by: counseling.

More and more MFT's are piecing together multifaceted careers that combine security and risk into a manageable whole that provides a satisfying balance of income and self-determination.

Over the months to follow, we will explore these and other career options for MFT's.

About the host:

This site is hosted by Robert Cureton, Ph.D. ,  I am both a licensed Psychologist and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California.  I have colleagues who think it silly to keep up both licenses because of the fees and continuing education requirements for each license.  My view, however, is that each license is uniquely valuable.  I will never abandon my MFT affiliation.  MFTs play an important role and usually have unique training and unique insights on human experience and clinical issues.

As a supervisor of MFT trainees and Interns for over 10 years, it has been my experience that there is altogether too little support for MFTs across the country.   MFTs in practice are too often isolated and working too hard.  MFTs in training often feel battered by the burocracy of their school, the exploittion of their internships, or the alienation and condescension of the licensing or registration boards.  This web site can't end these sources of exploitation but hopefully it can lend guidance, comforting words and some novel ideas that others have found useful.   Please Email me with comments, wishlists for the site, and hints for others.