ABSTRACT
This chapter provides stories about walk-in/single-sessions and single-sessions by doctoral counseling psychology students who have received some of their clinical training in the Our Lady of the Lake University's Community Counseling Service (CCS). The CCS shares a building with a group of family practice physicians and is located about two miles from the university's main campus. For over thirty years, Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio (OLLUSA) has used a training model that has been successful in preparing graduate students to do psychotherapy. The chapter focuses on five case stories that illustrate how student-therapists conducted single sessions by walk-in or appointment at the CCS. Hope, a twelve-year-old girl, was referred by her school counselor following a "physical altercation" she had with a classmate that resulted in her suspension from school. Hope's counselor referred her to the CCS expecting that outside counseling would help her to make "better choices.".
