Counseling Clinical Experiences

Clinical Practice

The practicum is designed to provide you with 100 hours of valuable in-field experience. Forty of these hours are in direct service with clients, giving you a hands-on education in real-life settings.

With the internship, you’ll have 600 hours of in-field experience within your chosen concentrations, and 240 hours of the 600 is in direct service to clients. Both the practicum and internships build counseling skills and allow practice within a theoretical framework, all while you are supervised by a licensed professional in the field.

These are great opportunities. Upon graduation, many of our students are hired within the organizations where they did their practicum and/or internships.

Experiential Learning Cloud (ELC)

ELC (formerly Tevera) is an online platform designed to facilitate necessary Practicum and Internship processes, collect and manage data, and assist with program outcomes reporting. Registration with this platform is mandatory for all Counseling students. Each student will be charged a one-time course fee of $260 during their first semester through their NMHU student account. This will grant them access to the platform for life. The bookstore will distribute access codes via email after the course drop deadline for the semester. If a student prefers not to incur charges for registration via their student account, they must follow the bookstore's opt-out instructions (sent by email) by the due date. After the bookstore's opt-out deadline, student accounts will be charged for ELC registration and it is non-refundable. If you choose to opt out of the bookstore, you must purchase directly from the ELC site (https://nmhu.tevera.app/#/logon).

ELC will be integral to your Counseling program, serving the following purposes: