Welcome to the UNLV PRACTICE
We are committed to providing affordable, evidence-based mental health care to our clients and the highest quality training to our students.
Welcome
The Partnership for Research, Assessment, Counseling, Therapy and Innovative Clinical Education — The PRACTICE — is a UNLV community mental health training clinic.
The PRACTICE clinic serves as a teaching, training and research clinic for faculty and students in the Colleges of Education and Liberal Arts.
Novel Coronavirus – COVID-19
UNLV is committed to safely providing education and promoting a healthy environment that supports the well-being of our students, faculty and staff.
To support the shared community effort to slow the spread of the Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19), The PRACTICE is suspending all in-person services except for PATC appointments. We have transitioned to providing telehealth support to our existing patients.
Our staff clinicians will be working remotely. But, a few essential staff will remain on site and available to conduct business operations, answer questions, etc. by phone (702-895-1532) or email (The.Practice@unlv.edu) during our normal business hours:
- Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Hours
- Monday-Friday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
- **Closed on Thursdays from 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. for Staff Meetings**
Resources
There are very helpful resources that we’d like to share with the community as we navigate this community crisis:
A one-stop website which has compiled useful and reliable resources in an organized fashion.
Online Emotional and Peer Support Services
Announcements/Resources
Directions
The PRACTICE clinic is located on UNLV main campus in the William D. Carlson Education Building (CEB), Room 226.
Support Us
The state of Nevada ranks in the highest prevalence rates of serious mental and behavioral health challenges in the nation. Yet our workforce is sorely underdeveloped ranking lowest. Donations to The PRACTICE will make a real impact toward a solution.
In the News
For most of us, the concept of hoarding brings to mind one of two things: 1. The 11-season A&E reality show Hoarders, which “features a team of experts working to tackle some of the biggest, most extreme and most challenging hoards in America,” or 2. Friends who remark of their organized collections—vinyl records or Barbie dolls or whatever—“I’m such a hoarder.”
Stephen D. Benning
Associate Professor, Psychology
Even in years without a global pandemic, catastrophic weather events, and other 2020 phenomena, many people find the holidays stressful, exhausting, or depressing. According to the American Psychological Association, 44% of women and 33% of men surveyed feel stressed during the holidays. The holiday blues strike people experiencing the forced joyfulness and expectations of the season.
Michelle G. Paul
Director, The PRACTICE Mental Health Clinic
Since the onset of the pandemic the Clark County School District has seen a surge in student suicides.
Michelle G. Paul
Director, The PRACTICE Mental Health Clinic
COVID-19 has upended the way we work. Many are working from home, stressed and attempting to juggle a range of personal and professional responsibilities, leading to an increase in anxiety, depression and burnout. To ensure that companies and their employees are performing optimally—not just existing—during this time, leaders must address the mental health challenges that employees are facing.
Michelle G. Paul
Director, The PRACTICE Mental Health Clinic