Everyone should have access to Quality Mental Health Care
Help us increase the number and quality of therapists prepared to provide compassionate, in-depth, and relationship grounded mental health care in diverse communities across the nation.
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Community Need
Since our founding in 1981, for over forty years, the Institute for Clinical Social Work's graduate programs, continuing education workshops, and community partnerships have touched more individuals in communities across the nation.
Our graduates are working as community agency leaders, directors in mental health care centers, therapists in private practice, leaders in government, consultants and supervisors, counselors and educators in both secondary and post-secondary education.
Hear from our founding members about the mission of ICSW.
Our impact could be greater.
We need your support to prepare more individuals to plan and care for the mental health needs across the nation, and to increase the number of racially and ethnically diverse professionals.
Our Impact
Licensure Rate
Master's alumni report receiving licensure on the first attempt.
Practitioner Faculty
Faculty are full-time practitioners bringing real-world insight.
In the Nation
The only independent graduate school focused on psychodynamic training.
"The time spent at ICSW was a time of personal and professional liberation and transformation that only those whose paths have crossed with ICSW can understand."
Merari Fernandez Castro, PhD, LCSW
Class of 2022
The Scope of Mental Health Needs
The gap in mental health care across the United States is vast and growing. We are committed to filling that void.
Shortage Areas
Americans living in designated Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas.
Prevalence Increase
Increase in anxiety and depression worldwide in response to the pandemic.
Youth Services
Youth with severe depression receive some consistent treatment.
Adults Impacted
Americans experiencing a mental illness today.
Uninsured Access
Americans with mental illness remain entirely uninsured.
Untreated Rate
Adults experiencing mental illness are going untreated.
Our Commitment
The Institute for Clinical Social Work is committed to providing solid clinical training from a psychodynamic perspective that prepares students to work with underserved populations.
Your support helps to further our mission in recruiting and providing scholarships to students who work in community health centers, hospitals, homeless agencies, and schools.
Together, we increase the pipeline for traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.