Experience & Impact
A psychology department dedicated to science and human transformation.
The Psychology Department at CIHS brings together students and faculty who are drawn to a broader vision of the field: one that approaches psychology as a scientific discipline, a healing profession, and a serious inquiry into the full range of human experience.
Across the M.A. in Psychology, the Clinical Psychology Ph.D., and the Ph.D. in Integral, Transpersonal, and Positive Psychology, students study clinical practice and conduct research informed by consciousness, spirituality, embodiment, human development, suffering, healing, exceptional experiences, and transformation within an academic environment committed to rigor, reflection, and attention to the whole person.
The Psychology Experience at CIHS
Join an academic community guided by expert faculty and shared purpose.
Students in the Psychology Department join a serious and supportive learning community shaped by faculty engagement and peer dialogue, and devoted to clinical formation, scholarly research, and a shared commitment to psychology as science, service, and transformation.
Whole-Person Learning Community
Study psychology through mind, body, spirit, culture, development, consciousness, and lived experience.
Faculty Mentorship & Scholarship
Learn with faculty who are clinicians, researchers, authors, editors, practitioners, and field-builders.
Online Study with Real Connection
A distance-friendly learning environment with faculty engagement, peer dialogue, and intellectual community.
Research, Practice & Transformation
Connect coursework with clinical preparation, doctoral research, professional practice, writing, teaching, and service.
What Makes the CIHS Psychology Department Different
A broader psychology for the whole person.
The study of psychology at CIHS is not limited to conventional models of behavior and cognition. The department invites students to study psychological life in its fuller range: suffering and healing, development and transformation, consciousness and spirituality, research and practice, personal formation and professional contribution.
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Graduate Impact
From study to meaningful impact.
Graduates from CIHS Psychology programs bring whole-person psychological insight into clinical service, research, education, leadership, writing, healing work, and community transformation.
Clinical Practice & Mental Health Service
For students pursuing clinical pathways, psychology becomes a means of serving individuals, families, groups, and communities through assessment, psychotherapy, ethical care, and whole-person approaches to healing.
Research & Field-Building Scholarship
Students may contribute to the future of psychology through dissertations, publications, presentations, and research in clinical, transpersonal, integral, positive, consciousness-based, psychedelic, parapsychological, and whole-person approaches.
Teaching & Education
Graduates may bring psychological insight into higher education, adult learning, workshops, public programs, professional training, continuing education, and community-based learning.
Writing & Public Scholarship
Psychology at CIHS can support students who want to write, publish, speak, teach, or participate in public conversations about healing, consciousness, transformation, spirituality, and human development.
Leadership, Coaching & Consulting
Students may apply psychological knowledge in organizational leadership, coaching, consulting, program development, human services, integrative wellness, and mission-driven work.
Healing, Transformation & Community Service
Many CIHS students are called to bring psychology into broader contexts of spiritual care, integrative healing, contemplative practice, community work, advocacy, and service.