Dr. Jim Maher, Clinic Director, and Holly Tocco, Clinic Manager, shared highlights from the Michigan School Psychological Clinic’s 2024-2025 academic year.
The Michigan School Psychological Clinic has once again completed a successful year serving as a training site for students and providing valuable services for our community.
The MSP Clinic focused on two special initiatives for the 24-25 academic year: the pursuit of grant opportunities and outreach to the community. These efforts resulted in the Clinic receiving a grant from the Southern Smoke Foundation to offer sessions to those in the food and beverage industry. A renewed emphasis on interactions with the local southeastern Michigan community also resulted in Student Clinicians providing a variety of psychoeducational training and information sessions at the following organizations: CARES of Farmington Hills, East Middle School, Longacre Elementary School, Bright Spot Counseling, Living and Learning Center, Oakland County Probate Court, Corewell Health, and Girl Scouts of Southeast Michigan.
Other clinic highlights for the year included:
- Serving over 90 psychotherapy clients.
- Continued client satisfaction with their care as the greatest percentage of referrals continues to come from current clients.
- An increase in the number of students completing their clinical training at the clinic to 23 total.
- This number includes seven PsyD students, 13 MA students, and three supplemental PsyD students.
- Student Clinicians’ continued satisfaction with the quality of their training experience as 96% of those students gave the Clinic the highest rating in overall satisfaction when surveyed for the second year in a row.
- Dr. Maher’s presentation of a poster at the National Association of Psychological Training Clinics (APTC) conference.
Looking to the future, Dr. Maher hopes to continue to expand the Clinic’s reach throughout the state in the 2025-2026 academic year through continued excellent clinical interactions and training, increased marketing efforts, and expanded community involvement.