CCSU’s Family Therapy Institute (FTI) has joined with Klingberg Family Services in a collaborative effort benefiting the New Britain metropolitan area while aiding master’s degree students in the CCSU Marriage and Family Therapy Program. The new facility, located at CCSU’s Institute of Technology and Business Development, offers clinical, academic and on-going research activities to help strengthen families and solve problems within the community.

According to Dr. Ralph S. Cohen, Marriage and Family Therapy program director, the alliance will provide systems-oriented approaches to individual, couple, and family therapy, as well as psychiatric services, to the community. Student therapists work side-by-side with highly experienced faculty to provide innovative, sophisticated and research-based clinical treatment. Dr. Cohen notes, “At the Family Therapy Institute the aim of the collaboration is to better the community by providing mental health and family services to people who have not had the opportunity to receive the help they need.” Dr. Cohen added, “Typically, people are on a waiting list for six to 12 months before treatment. We can take
emergency cases within two hours and urgent cases within two days.”