The Institute offers therapy and consultation services for all age groups including individuals, couples, families, and groups and for a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems. The Institute also offers Employee Assistance Program services to companies and organizations, to clients of mental health agencies and the medical community on a contract basis, and is a Preferred Provider for numerous managed health care companies. In addition, the Institute has contracts with public service agencies for counseling services. The Institute is committed to effective, efficient, and affordable mental health services. The Institute is dedicated to life-long learning, and promotes the training of psychotherapists via a number of programs, such as Clinical Externship, Monthly Externship, Theoretical Seminars, Ethics Seminars, Supervisors' Seminars, Conferences and Visitor Study Programs. The Institute is the practicum site for MS Psychology students of Our Lady of the Lake University - Houston and internship site for local Universities such as, University of Houston - Clear Lake and OLLU and national doctoral programs at universities such as Iowa State, Purdue, Texas Tech, Union, and Virginia Tech. The Institute also provides online training opportunities. Along with the Taos Institute, the Institute co-sponsors the Social Construction and Therapeutic Practice Program. The Institute's faculty also provides material and facilitates courses via the Massey Program. The Institute offers organizational consultation to community mental health agencies, private companies, educational systems, and individuals from a collaborative perspective. Consultations are uniquely and individually tailored to suit the organization's needs and are offered at the Institute and on-site locally, nationally, and internationally. The faculty and professional staff are available to make presentations in the community on various mental health, family, and organizational topics. The Institute's faculty has consulted nationally and internationally. The Institute promotes the development and innovation of "knowledge" in the treatment of individuals, couples, families, and groups and in the training of psychotherapists. In addition to faculty research projects, the Institute works cooperatively with graduate students on dissertations. Recent research projects include the stories of women who have been battered, the experiences of African American families who are mandated to family therapy, the implications of postmodern approaches in family therapy for the training of therapists, the use of a collaborative language systems approach in schools, internship and research experiences in a postmodern community, and relational transformation in supervision.