The Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute at Boston University was established through the vision and generosity of Albert V. and Jessie Boyd Danielsen “to promote the benefits of a close collaboration between psychology and religion to alleviate human suffering and enhance human growth.”  To this end, the Danielsen Institute

• operates the Danielsen Institute Clinic, a multidisciplinary mental  health clinic which is licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and serves the psychotherapeutic needs of clients in the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The Clinic offers psychotherapy, psychiatry, psychological testing, and consultation services that attend to all dimensions of a client’s personhood: biological, psychological, social, and spiritual.
• conducts clinical training programs in psychodynamic psychotherapy, with a specialization in spiritual, existential, religious, and theological issues. Several clinical training programs are offered: a practicum level training program for Boston University students in Social Work, Clinical Psychology, and Counseling Psychology and Religion; an APA accredited pre-doctoral psychology internship; a psychiatry residency elective; and APA approved continuing education programs.
• supports academic programs in Boston University’s School of Theology and Boston University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences which focus on the interface between psychology and religion, including a Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology and Religion.
• conducts research through The Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology at the Danielsen Institute that involves both empirical and humanistic approaches and benefits from the Danielsen Institute’s place within a large research university that includes graduate programs in comparative religion, theology, psychology, neuroscience, counseling, social work, psychiatry, sociology, and education.