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Advanced Degrees | Individual & Family Intervention

Marriage and Family Therapist (2)

Rebecca Clark 
- 1998

HDFS Major | Music Minor

Additional Education: Master of Science in Human Development/Marriage and Family Therapy from Virginia Tech

Job Title: Marriage and family therapist, private practice, part-time

Employer: Lifespan Family Healthcare

Position Description: Providing marriage and family therapy to individuals, couples, and families in a family medicine office.

Salary Range: Varies, depending on agreement with employer or if self-employed

Previously Held Positions: Fifth grade teacher and part-time guidance counselor in Honduras for an independent bi-lingual Christian school; Family Support Specialist (in-home services: working with families with children of special needs)

Courses Found Most Helpful: 
Dynamics of Family Interaction 
Integration of faith/theory 
Writing classes

How HDFS Program Helped to Prepare Her: “ Great foundation for further studies in family dynamics. Still doing genograms.”

How Faith Interfaces with Work: “My faith informs my practice because it gives me a worldview from which to view people, problems, and hope. [It also gives me] a framework from which to test theories proposed in my field.”

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