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September 17, 2025

$2.4-million grant to help increase supply and access to behavior health professionals

The grant will impact students in UDM’s Specialist in School Psychology program and Clinical Psychology doctoral program, providing them with a stipend, learning experiences and mentoring during their final year of training. It will also create educational webinars that will be available to mental health providers throughout Michigan

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July 25, 2025

Detroit Mercy experience inspires solo theatrical show

For more than 20 years, Michelle Murphy ’98 held onto a regret from college: the time she let fear win. That regret was the inspiration behind 'Keeper,' a solo show written, produced and performed by Murphy.  

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Psychology Clinic

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The Psychology Clinic is a teaching clinic, for doctoral students of clinical psychology. The clinic provides counseling, testing and assessment services including:

  • Individual and couples therapy
  • Emotional issues such as anger and grief
  • Assessment for learning problems and gifted children
  • Sorting through sources of stress
Service fees are on a sliding scale.

Psychology Clinic

Counseling Clinic

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The Counseling Clinic is a teaching clinic, primarily for second-year counseling students. The clinic specializes in a wide variety of clinical issues for children and adults, such as:

  • Grief and loss
  • Anger/emotion management
  • Decision making
  • Life transitions/family issues
Services are available at no cost.

Counseling Clinic

CHASS Events and Engagements

CHASS, SACD to hold info sessions for Mexico spring break trip

Detroit Mercy's School of Architecture & Community Development and College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences will hold in-person and virtual info sessions on Sept. 24, 26 and Oct. 2 for their joint spring break trip to Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2026.

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Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Jocelyn Boryczka was recently interviewed on MEA-TV & Radio, a media outlet that reaches all …

Deadline for student submissions to UDM’s student art journal, Oct. 10

Deadline for student submissions to UDM’s student art journal, Oct. 10

[sic] offers $100 prizes for the best visual, poetry and fiction/prose submissions and is open to all Detroit Mercy undergraduate and graduate students. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 10.