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Wesleyan international programs offer both graduate and undergraduate students a chance to earn credits while studying abroad.
During the summer, Wesleyan’s counseling students will embark on a two-week trip to
London to learn better counseling skills. The trip is from June 19 to July 2 and they will be learning skills in brief psychotherapy.
“The counseling students going to London will attend and take workshops from the Brief Counseling Center, which is solution based therapy in counseling,” said Marie Boisvert, director of international programs.
Brief therapy is often highly strategic, exploratory and solution-based rather than problem-oriented. It is less concerned with how a problem arose than with the current factors sustaining it and preventing change, Boisvert said.
Counseling students also have the opportunity to travel to Argentina and New York City. The study abroad program also offers trips to Mexico, Ireland and India which last a few weeks.
“If a student wants to study abroad for a full semester, the world is their oyster,” Boisvert said. “They can go anywhere they choose as long as they or financial aid can cover the cost.”
This is the second year for counseling students to travel to London.
Robyn Fisk, Wesleyan alumna and college and career services counselor at TWU, went to London last year.
“I wanted to go because my dream has been to work over there. I wanted to learn better skills for my counseling degree,” Fisk said. “The trip completely over-ceded the expectations that I had. I expected to learn counseling skills and techniques and how to use counseling and actually see it, and I learned way more than I wanted to learn.”
In March, Fisk will embark on another counseling based trip, this time to Argentina.
“I’ve never been there before so my expectations are not as high,” Fisk said. “I’m unsure of what I’m getting myself into.”
Lorena Gallegos, career services intern and Wesleyan graduate, said she plans on studying abroad in order to broaden her world view.
“Americans tend to be uninformed about the world beyond the nations boundaries,” she said. “After studying abroad, one returns home with an informed and much less biased perspective toward other cultures and peoples.
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