Doctoral Programs
Saybrook University’s doctoral degree programs provide rigorous training at the highest levels of academic achievement.
College of Social Sciences Doctoral Programs
Counseling
Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision
Prepare the next generation of counselors for professional success with a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision. With advanced knowledge and skills in teaching, clinical supervision, research, advocacy, and leadership, you will be well-poised for full-time and adjunct faculty positions, clinical supervisor roles, and more.
Psychology
Online Ph.D. in Psychology
Based in the traditions of existential, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology, the Ph.D. in Psychology program will help you build a foundation of scholarship that allows you to drive positive change in various areas, such as health centers, the juvenile justice system, corporate and nonprofit organizations, the education system, and beyond.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Focused on the knowledge and practical skills you need to enter professional practice, the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology program trains you to conduct ethical and effective psychotherapy based on psychological research rooted in multicultural and humanistic-existential psychology.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology: Advanced Psychological Assessment Specialization
Providing greater training and experience in child, adolescent, and adult psychological assessment skills, the Advanced Psychological Assessment Specialization focuses on both adult and child cognitive measures, adult and child objective and personality measures, test interpretation, and much more.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology: Applied Psychophysiology Specialization
The Applied Psychophysiology Specialization program can teach you how to help elite and amateur athletes, performing artists, businesspeople, students, and more achieve their optimal performance in the face of stress and other limiting thoughts and behaviors.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology: Complex Trauma and the Healing Process Specialization
Designed to fill the gap in education surrounding traumatic stress, the Complex Trauma and the Healing Process Specialization program provides an in-depth look at the foundations of trauma, and its impact on the mind, body, spirit, and culture, with special attention given to both conventional and nonconventional healing processes.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology: Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health Specialization
Learn how spiritual direction, art and healing, integrative health, the psychology of consciousness, and more can make a positive impact in the lives of individuals and your clinical practice.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology: Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership Specialization
Expand past theory and learn to apply creative, complex, and effective problem-solving strategies to clinical practice in the Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership Specialization program.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology: Existential and Humanistic Psychology Specialization
The Existential and Humanistic Psychology Specialization program explores the clinical applications of existential and humanistic theory to the human situation in individual and group therapy settings.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology: Jungian Studies Specialization
The Jungian Studies Specialization program, a comprehensive examination of C.G. Jung's foundational work and its relevance and application today, explores Jung's legendary research on the human psyche, collective unconscious, archetypes, and the intersection of psychology, religion, and mythology.
Ph.D. in Psychology: Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health Specialization
The Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health Specialization teaches you to understand people’s internal and external growth through rigorous study of transpersonal psychology and practices.
Ph.D. in Psychology: Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership Specialization
Designed for those who want to accomplish in-depth research in a particular aspect of creativity or innovation, the Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership Specialization prepares you for leadership roles that make meaningful contributions to the future of the field and well-being of individuals.
Ph.D. in Psychology: Existential and Humanistic Psychology Specialization
Combining psychology with philosophy, creativity, spirituality, ethics, and other disciplines, the Existential and Humanistic Psychology Specialization program examines what it means to be fully human, from our internal stirrings through our relationships with others and our engagement with the world.
Ph.D. in Psychology: Psychophysiology Specialization
Become an expert on the biological basis of human behaviors and how various psychological techniques can help optimize those behaviors in the Psychophysiology Specialization program. Through this program, you can learn to teach others how to alter behavior using relaxation training, biofeedback, hypnosis, and more.
Transformative Social Change
Online Ph.D. Managing Organizational Systems
As businesses expand globally, organizations are becoming more complex, creating a need for qualified organizational leaders who can develop innovative, adaptive, and sustainable systems that can function efficiently across national and cultural borders.
Ph.D. in Transformative Social Change
Train to become a leader who advocates for human rights, community building, and social justice in the Ph.D. in Transformative Social Change program. Upon graduation, you’ll be prepared to pursue roles in program development, policy advocacy, public relations, outreach, and academia.
College of Integrative Medicine and Health
Sciences Doctoral Programs
Integrative Social Work
Ph.D. in Integrative Social Work
Integrating the time-honored traditions of social work with the values of social justice and social transformation, the Integrative Social Work online Ph.D. helps you develop a mindfulness-based, person-centered, and evidence-informed perspective on social work and community health.
Ph.D. in Integrative Social Work: Integrative Community Studies Specialization
Learn how disaster, trauma, family relationships, addiction, and more can affect entire communities in the Integrative Community Studies Specialization online program. You’ll emerge ready to make positive changes in social services, community health, nonprofit organizations, and more.
Ph.D. in Integrative Social Work: Legal Studies Specialization
Prepare to serve as a social and community change agent in the online Legal Studies Specialization program. You’ll learn to provide advocacy in legal systems, promote regulatory change, develop community programs, and consult with organizations and individuals, through the lens of social justice.
Integrative and Functional Nutrition
M.S.-to-Ph.D. Pathway in Integrative and Functional Nutrition
Grounded in humanistic values, the M.S.-to-Ph.D. Pathway in Integrative and Functional Nutrition program provides the solid foundation and rigorous study needed to earn both your master’s and doctoral degrees in a single program.
M.S.-to-Ph.D. Pathway in Integrative and Functional Nutrition: Integrative Wellness Coaching Specialization
The M.S.-to-Ph.D. Pathway in Integrative and Functional Nutrition: Integrative Wellness Coaching Specialization program allows you to earn your master’s and doctoral degrees, focusing on integrative wellness coaching, in a single academic program.
M.S.-to-Ph.D. Pathway in Integrative and Functional Nutrition: Mind-Body Medicine Specialization
Learn to apply the philosophy and practices of mind-body medicine to nutrition interventions while earning both your master’s and doctoral degrees in the M.S.-to-Ph.D. Pathway in Integrative and Functional Nutrition: Mind-Body Medicine Specialization program.
Online Ph.D. in Integrative and Functional Nutrition
Prepare to conduct research and to provide patient-centered integrative care that incorporates environmental, social, physiological, and psychological sciences in our online Ph.D. in Integrative and Functional Nutrition program.
Mind-Body Medicine
Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine
Attracting students from a broad range of education and career backgrounds in health, wellness, education, and non-health care fields, the generalist program option offers you the flexibility to pursue multiple certificates, such as Contemplative End-of-Life Care, Biofeedback, Neurofeedback, and more.
Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine: Applied Psychophysiology Specialization
Help patients, clients, and athletes optimize behavior, functions, and performance with the Applied Psychophysiology Specialization. You will learn how to advance your expertise in the applied psychophysiological interventions of biofeedback, relation training, sensory entrainment, and hypnosis.
Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine: Contemplative End-of-Life Care Specialization
The Contemplative End-of-Life Care Specialization provides you with deeper skills and understanding to better serve the chronically ill and dying. This program nurtures a holistic, person-centered, psychospiritual approach to providing support, comfort, and care during the time leading up to an individual’s death.
Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine: Integrative Mental Health Specialization
Oriented for licensed mental health practitioners and individuals with a licensable mental health degree, the Integrative Mental Health Specialization provides a thorough understanding of the core evidence-based behavioral, nutritional, and spiritual/transpersonal interventions in use today.
Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine: Integrative Wellness Coaching Specialization
Drawing from current research in professional coaching, lifestyle medicine, positive psychology, and mind-body interventions, you will learn to apply evidence-based, best-practice approaches to support the well-being of others in the Integrative Wellness Coaching Specialization.
Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine: Integrative and Functional Nutrition Specialization
Combining the established science of nutrition with the emerging fields of integrative and functional nutrition, this specialization program offers you the opportunity to focus your studies and hone your skills in nutritional science, herbal supplements, dietary planning, integrative nutritional therapies, sports nutrition, and more.
Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine: Mindful Leadership Specialization
The Mindful Leadership Specialization helps you foster an evidence-informed mindfulness and a compassion-based approach to leadership and management in organizations, government agencies, community programs, and more.
Psychophysiology
Ph.D. in Applied Psychophysiology
Assist individuals in recognizing and altering problems caused by the biological underpinnings that affect human behavior with a Ph.D. in Applied Psychophysiology. Comprehensive training in biofeedback, neurofeedback, stress management, and more prepares you for leadership roles in sports, education, business, and beyond.
How We Learn Together
Online learning fueled by community and connection defines the Saybrook experience. As pioneers of the virtual classroom, we understand there is no substitute for the joy, belonging, and exploration that occurs when we collaborate as a community. Students in our doctoral degree programs have regular opportunities to connect with classmates and faculty thanks to the innovative Saybrook learning model.
