MFT Exam Prep Reviews

PASSED!!!! Thank you TDC for making my re-testing experience a great one (and I actually had fun studying!)  I went into this time super confident and knew I was passing the test the whole time. The framing was a God send and I am recommending TDC to everyone I know. My only regret is not using TDC for my first test (I passed, but studied and agonized for WAY too long) and using it on my first CVE attempt. I know for sure I would have been licensed much sooner had I known. Thanks again you guys! I will give you a huge hug Amanda if I ever run into you!

TDC was great in preparing me for this exam.  I graduated way back in 1987 from graduate school, and although I have always been an administrator in the behavioral healthcare industry, I decided to go back and start doing all my hours over again to get licensed as an MFT after the birth of my twins in 2007 so I could be home with them. Although having spent the last 6 years gaining hours, and the administrative oversight and experience over the years, I hadn't been in graduate school formally for over almost 30 years! TDC was instrumental in helping me organize all the information, and focus on what I needed to be focused on to pass this exam my first time, all while continuing to balance my day to day life as a parent, spouse and busy volunteer - volunteering in my twins' classrooms and on the PTA,  seeing clients at a community mental health program, and still feeling like I had a life outside of my preparations for this exam.  The coaching response was also amazingly supportive, and immediate.  Although I had no idea how I was doing during the exam, and felt like I was not likely passing it, I kept remembering Amanda saying during the exam to tolerate uncertainty and that feeling you aren't passing as 95% of examinees feel that way.   Each time I began to feel that way, I would hear Amanda's voice, and remind myself that feeling was normal, and immediately my anxiety would be lowered and kept me focused and on track.  Thank you TDC!  I am looking forward to the Clinical Vignette study program and passing this last exam in this long journey to becoming licensed!!

First I used Gerry Grossman, then I tried AATBS. I felt Gerry Grossman was helpful in refreshing what I learned in Graduate School, however after spending countless hours taking practice exams and studying the lengthy material I began to burn out. I then gave AATBS a try, I would say the practice exams on AATBS were somewhat helpful, but at times I felt the rationales were convoluted and discouraging, and at times would contradict Grossman, adding undue stress and negativity to an already difficult process. 

I decided to give TDC a try. All I have to say is it was amazing! Succinct, informative, user-friendly and it restored my confidence in the knowledge I had already attained throughout the years working as an intern. Furthermore, her test-taking strategies were extremely helpful, which really proved positive during the anxiety-provoking in vivo examination process.

Thank you, TDC and to your helpful team (Asya) for giving me the confidence to pass. I have already referred many colleagues to your program and will tell many more.

I was successful - to my own surprise - passing the Written Exam two months ago, using another company's program.  I say "surprised" because the exam experience bore little resemblance to the real "in vivo" encounter.  Perhaps the advantage then was simply that I had to wait 10 months from application time to the BBS until a date was established, so lots of study time. When I contacted Amanda five weeks ago, expressing anxiety that I did not feel the same company was going to equip me for the CVE, I made the switch to The Therapist Development Center.  Through the online lectures and presentation of materials, things really started to make sense in a very focused way.  I started hearing Amanda's voice inside of my own head, reasoning answers with a coherent rationale. While it would be foolish to say that the exam this morning was "easy", it actually became very "simple".