The Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute at Boston University was established through a generous endowment by 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:

The Danielsen Clinic is a multidisciplinary mental health clinic licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. It offers psychotherapy, psychiatry, assessments, and consultation services that attend to all dimensions of a client’s personhood, including spirituality and religious faith should the client so desire. The Danielsen Clinic is accredited as a service center by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and is affiliated with the Samaritan Institute.

Clinical Training Programs The Danielsen Institute offers several clinical training programs: a practicum level training program for Boston University students in Social Work, Clinical Psychology, and Counseling Psychology and Religion; an APA approved psychology internship training program; an advanced social work training program for LCSWs; and a limited postdoctoral psychology program that includes clinical and research positions. These programs train clinicians and researchers who can attend to the interface between spirituality and psychotherapy.

The Academic Programs include the Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology and Religion in Boston University's Division of Religious and Theological Studies, taught by faculty members in the School of Theology. The doctoral program in Counseling Psychology and Religion is ASPPB designated. Additionally, the Institute's funding of pastoral care programs include courses for Master of Divinity, Master of Theological Studies, Master of Sacred Theology, Doctor of Ministry, and Doctor of Theology students in the Boston University School of Theology, all aiming to enhance ministry with advanced knowledge in psychology and psychotherapy, closely connected with spiritual formation.

The Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology conducts research projects at the intersection of religious and spiritual life with psychological inquiry, always aiming to relieve human suffering and promote human growth. The center of gravity of this research involves collaboration of psychological investigators with leaders in a variety of religious and spiritual traditions. This research involves both empirical and humanistic approaches and takes advantage of the situation of the Danielsen Institute within a large research university that includes graduate programs in comparative religion, theology, psychology, neuroscience, counseling, social work, psychiatry, sociology, and education.