Clinical Mental Health, M.A.

Mission Statement: The mission of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program faculty is to provide counseling students with the most recent research, technology, training, and supervision required to become a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).  Program faculty are committed to training students who are knowledgeable, ethical, competent, self-aware, and professionally mature, who hold a strong counselor identity and display a respect for diverse populations and multiculturalism.  The Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program will qualify students as counselors and provide them with the necessary skills to become fully functioning counselors in a variety of related settings and fields to work in an evolving diverse society.  The program is teaching-centered with professors.

The Master of Arts with a major in clinical mental health, for students who wish to work in various public or private settings, requires 60 semester hours. Enrollment in courses with the COUN prefix (with the exception of COUN 6013 ) requires admission to the Master of Arts in clinical mental health program or permission of the Counseling Program Coordinator.