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The Hiebert Institute is housed within Marriage and Family Counseling Service, a community sponsored resource for counseling and education.
There are two professional education programs in the HIebert Institute for professionals:
• Leadership Development Certificate Program: The Certificate in Leadership Development will be launched in the fall of 2008 and will include workshops, coaching and a spring 2009 Institute. See the latest course bulletin (home page) for further information.
• Marriage and Family Therapy Program: The marriage and family therapy program offers both non-degree graduate courses in marriage and family therapy and Doctor of Psychology and Doctor of Ministry degrees.
- Licensure in Marriage and Family Therapy, Illinois: The Illinois Licensing Board, as of June 2008, has the Hiebert Institute listed as a Post-Degree Institute whose courses may be counted as equivalents to academic courses in colleges or universities for the purpose of completing the course of study for licensure in marriage and family therapy. Courses taught at the Hiebert Institute may be used for licensure without participating in one of the degrees listed below.
- Doctor of Psychology Degree: The Doctor of Psychology degree (Psy. D.) requires a master's degree for admission. The program requires eight 3-credit courses in marriage and family therapy (which may include practica), 8 scholarly response papers and a professional project or thesis.
- Doctor of Ministry Degree: The Doctor of Ministry degree (D. Min.) requires a master's degree for admission. The participant complete four 3-credit courses, four response papers and a professional project or thesis.
Faculty
• Marriage and Family Therapy Program: Full-time faculty include William J. Hiebert, D. Min. and Derek A. Ball, Ph.D., both licensed family therapists and Approved Supervisors in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Ball completed the marriage and family therapy doctoral program at Purdue University. Dr. Hiebert is the co-author of Pre- and Re-Marital Counseling and Dynamic Assessment in Couple Therapy (see Resources on home page).
• Leadership Development Program: Michael Pater, Psy.D., coordinator of the pastoral and executive excellence programs, completed graduate and doctoral studies focused on a development of a systems psychodynamic perspective, with an emphasis on pastoral psychotherapy (specializing in personality disorders), change & conflict management, and supervision & staff development
Further Information: Contact Dr. Derek Ball (Institute director), drballmft@aol.com
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