What personal and family experiences have influenced your interest in a career as a marriage and family therapist? What academic and professional experiences have influenced your interest in a career as a marriage and family therapist?

Adversity Comes with Great Responsibility

The Admissions Committee is most interested in you and why you want to be a marriage and family therapist. Your Statement of Purpose should be written so that we may “get to know you” better and should be no longer that 5,000 characters (not including spaces). Please respond to the following questions:

What personal and family experiences have influenced your interest in a career as a marriage and family therapist?

What academic and professional experiences have influenced your interest in a career as a marriage and family therapist?

What attracts you to the field of marriage and family therapy (as opposed to social work, counseling, or clinical psychology?

What attracts you to the MSMFT program at Northwestern University?

Describe a time in your life when things didn’t go well for you. Describe the circumstances of this time and how you handled the challenges associated with it.