News and Events

New York Times reporter Christina Caron examines why mental health practitioners are hiking, camping and braving the elements with their clients — all in an effort to help them connect with the Earth, and with themselves.

Dr. Hasbach has retired after more than 13 years of service to Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling. She is a leading practitioner in the fields of ecopsychology and ecotherapy and has published a new book: Grounded, A Guided Journal to Help You Reconnect with the Power of Nature—and Yourself.

While accessing nature certainly doesn’t require a formal prescription, Patricia Hasbach, former certificate co-director and ecotherapist, does believe “ecotherapy is one tool that [therapists] have to draw on to strengthen and deepen the work that [they’re] doing with clients or patients.”

In an article posted to their website, Columbia Sportswear discusses why spending time outside is healing with leading ecotherapists.

In 2019, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) held its third annual Student Ethics Competition. According to AAMFT’s website, the competition is designed to encourage marriage and family therapy students to foster an interest in ethics issues and enhance their ability to analyze and respond to the various ethics issues that they will undoubtedly encounter throughout their careers

An Ecopsychology Voices Interview, facilitated by Carol Koziol/

“As the only art therapy program in the state of Oregon, we are thrilled to have a new home at Lewis & Clark.” — Art Therapy Program Director Mary Andrus

The World Health Organization recently announced “gaming disorder” is now classified as a mental health disorder, however, The Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, has already been helping those struggling with this issue in their Gaming and Tech in Excess program.

Funding is provided by the City of Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement and Office of Management and Finance, Special Appropriations for Portland United Against Hate

Navigating adolescence: Helping our teens find a line through three crucial passages

Interim President David Ellis, on behalf of the Lewis & Clark community, has issued a statement in response to President Trump’s travel-ban executive order. A community gathering of support will be held on Tuesday, January 31. For more information, click through to the story.

Brian Bauer, M.S., Counseling Psychology ’16, arrived at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling with a clear research plan in mind: to study whether an individual’s involvement in extracurricular activities is associated with lower suicidality. In fact, he selected the Graduate School specifically for the unique masters of science option.

The MCFT program gets an update from two of our alumni about where they are now and what they are doing.

Being a counselor can be emotionally draining if you don’t have good strategies to take care of yourself. Jennifer Boone, MA ’07, BA ’98, uses intense physical exercise to keep balanced. She shared her story with the Bend Bulletin.

We had the privilege of having two of our international partners join us for our International  Research Forum (IRF) this Fall and to share their goals, research, and experiences of working with L&C MCFT students. Our presenters were Dr./Fr. Paschal Kabura and Brother Mathew Panathanath.

Graduate students launch a nonprofit to support a counselor training center in Uganda.

In early June, class leader Michael Kahn hosted The Ethics of Cultural Self-Awareness: How to Offend Without Really Trying. In the daylong workshop, Kahn and counseling students discussed bias in many areas, including race, religion, sexual orientation, physical condition, socioeconomic status, and gender.

In 2014, the Graduate School celebrates its 30-year history of working in the community

Four PMHC graduates create their private practice Living Groove Counseling.

Dr. Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe shares about her recent visit to the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) in Cali, Colombia.

In an Oregonian article published this month, professor Peter Mortola offers five tips for resolving sibling disputes.

Counselor and self-help author Tina Gilbertson (MA in Professional Mental Health Counseling—Addictions ’07) has a new book out: Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feeling by Letting Yourself Have Them.

The Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy program adds a new international track

In December 2013, Ivy Katz MA ‘13 and Kirk Shepard MA ‘13 became Lewis & Clark’s first two ecopsychology certificate graduates, available to help Portlanders connect the health of the natural world and the health of the mind.

Elena Diamond, assistant professor and clinical coordinator in the School Psychology Program, nurtures a passion for learning and academic readiness for all of her students,  from pre-K classrooms to the graduate level.

A start-up provides cutting-edge eating disorder treatments.

Two students, Shannon Mouzon (PMHC) and Michelle Hyman (MCFT), this semester organized the graduate school’s first Students of Color Alliance, and attracted strong support from students and faculty.

The grant will allow the graduate school to expand its new – and rapidly growing – free clinic for problem gamblers, the only program in Oregon to offer weekend services.

Pilar Hernández-Wolfe, associate professor of counseling and director of the Lewis & Clark Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Program, recently received the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) award for distinguished contributions to social justice.