PROGRAM POLICIES
Orientation & Graduation: Students should plan to attend Orientation from 6pm-7:30 on September 15, 2022. Orientation will be held virtually and log-in information will be shared in advance. Students should also plan to attend Graduation in May 2024; precise date, location and time are to be determined.
Attendance: Students are expected to attend all scheduled training program class sessions over the two-year period, including colloquiums, as well as Orientation and Graduation. If a student is unable to attend a class session for any reason, please contact the instructor and administrator in advance. Students may miss no more than three classes per calendar year. Students who miss more than six classes over the two-year period will not be eligible for graduation/certificate. Students who arrive more than 15 minutes late will not receive credit for having attended the class. Please refrain from personal smartphone use during class. Due to the requirement that classes be live, and due to privacy and confidentiality concerns, students will not be allowed to record classes. Also, WTCI does not record classes.
Students must attend the full forty sessions of consultation over the two years in order to graduate. Students must provide one-week advance notice of a consultation meeting cancellation and are expected to reschedule missed sessions. If a student is more than 15 minutes late to a scheduled session, the session will not be counted towards the total required for graduation.
Qualifications for receiving certificate of continuing education: While participants are welcome to join from outside of New York, WTCI is recognized only by the New York State (NYS) Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0102 and creative arts therapists #CAT-0018, by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers #SW-0361, and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed psychologists #PSY-0049. Please reach out to the applicable authorities in your locale to determine how you might receive credit for participation in this and other WTCI practitioner training programs.
Required readings: Readings will be made available for download in advance of each class meeting, with the exception of assigned readings in books you have purchased for the course. If using more than two chapters in a book, we request that students purchase the book.
Tuition and Payments: Tuition for the two-year program is $4,400, which includes a $100 administration fee. Educational consultation sessions are 45 minutes in length and scheduled in advance by the student with the assigned consultant. 40 sessions are required for graduation, 20 per program year. The fee is $75 per session, totaling $3000.
A deposit of $600 (towards tuition) is due by August 22, 2022. The first tuition and consultant sessions payment of $1700 is due by September 2, 2022. The second payment of $1700 is due by December 16, 2022. The third payment of $1700 is due by August 15, 2023. The fourth payment of $1700 is due by December 15, 2023.
Students may not carry a balance for tuition and educational consultation.
Payments may be made by mailing a check to WTCI or electronically. Please contact the administrator for electronic payments.
Track Options: Education consultation may be focused in one of two ways: The Clinical Track or The Applied Track. Students must determine their track preference no later than October 14, 2022. Students on the Applied Track must submit a preliminary project proposal in writing to their consultant by December 2, 2022. Students on the Clinical Track must submit a minimum of 10 process recordings to their educational consultant per twenty-week cycle in order to be eligible for graduation/certificate. The final project for students on the Applied Track must be submitted to your educational consultant one month prior to the final class in order for you to receive your certificate.
Students will have the opportunity to work with two different faculty members and must successfully complete twenty weeks of consultation with one faculty member before being assigned to a second faculty member.
Evaluation Procedure: Students will receive an evaluation to be completed after each course. Faculty will also complete evaluations of students; these will be a part of the student’s file.
Grievance Procedure: WTCI is committed to the ideal of resolving conflicts collegially. The grievance process must be initiated within thirty days of the incident. It is first addressed in informal discussion between the immediate parties in the dispute. If this discussion fails to produce a resolution, the student may seek the advice and assistance of their educational consultant, or another member of the faculty. If this does not produce a resolution, the Training Program Committee will review the matter promptly in a manner deemed appropriate to the case and will report any recommendations to the parties. WTCI reserves the right to dismiss a student who is unable to abide by the professional ethics and standards of their profession or who is unable to abide by program policies and procedures.
Withdrawal and Refunds: Students who withdraw from the program prior to the first orientation meeting will receive a refund of their first tuition and education consultation fees minus the $600 deposit. Students who withdraw at any time from the program during the first year are responsible for the first year’s tuition as well as educational consultation fees. Application fee is non-refundable.
