Counseling (M.S.)

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 1

Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice: To cultivate culturally affirming, ethically grounded and self-reflective students who exhibit a comprehensive understanding of the counseling profession’s theoretical foundations, specialized domains, and contemporary development.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 2

Social and Cultural Identities and Experiences: To equip students to promote multicultural competence and social justice by understanding diverse cultural influences and addressing systemic inequities, discrimination, and trauma, while fostering empowerment, inclusion, and equitable access to services.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 3

Lifespan Development: To prepare students to apply developmental and cultural theories to promote resilience, wellness, and healthy adaptation for clients across the lifespan.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 4

Career Development: To equip students with culturally responsive counseling skills, demonstrate mastery of career development theories, assessment strategies, and interventions, enabling them to effectively guide diverse clients through career-related challenges while advocating for equitable access to educational and occupational opportunities in an evolving global workforce.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 5

Counseling Practice and Relationships: To prepare students to demonstrate proficiency in applying diverse counseling theories, models, and culturally responsive strategies to effectively conceptualize cases, establish therapeutic relationships, and implement evidence-based interventions across various service delivery modalities. To equip students with advanced skills in critical thinking, ethical decision-making, and professional practice, including crisis intervention, documentation, case management, and the integration of technology, while cultivating a personal counseling model grounded in theory and research.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 6

Groups Counseling and Group Work: To prepare students with the knowledge and skills to effectively apply group counseling theories, dynamics, and techniques in diverse settings.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 7

Assessment and Diagnostic Processes: Equip students to ethically apply culturally responsive, evidence-based assessment and intervention strategies to inform diagnosis, referral, and advocacy, while promoting client well-being and equitable access to mental health services across diverse global contexts.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 8

Research and Program Evaluation: To equip students to use research and evaluation methods to inform practice, advance the profession, and advocate for clients by applying ethical, culturally responsive, and evidence-based approaches to data collection, analysis, and decision-making.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 9

Addiction Counseling: To equip students to understand the neurobiological, psychological, and social aspects of addictions, and develop skills to identify, assess, and apply individualized strategies for prevention, intervention, and recovery.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 10

Counseling Children and Adolescents: To prepare students to demonstrate the knowledge and application of culturally, situationally, and developmentally appropriate treatment strategies for children and adolescents, including recognizing characteristics, risk factors, and warning signs of mental health and behavioral disorders.

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 11

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Specialized Practice Area: To develop students who demonstrate the ability to navigate mental health service systems, apply counseling and supervision theory and practice, collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, advocate for clients, and understand licensure requirements and professional standards in clinical mental health counseling. Develop, through supervised practicum and internship experiences, an integration of the knowledge and skills needed to be successful as practicing counselors

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 12

School Counseling Specialized Practice Area: Enact skills to design, implement, and evaluate comprehensive, student-centered school counseling programs that reflect core professional values and integrate foundational models, leadership, and advocacy to support the academic, career, social/emotional, and cultural development of all PK-12 students. Develop, through supervised practicum and internship experiences, an integration of the knowledge and skills needed to be successful as practicing counselors

Concentration: Clinical Mental Health Counseling 13

Personal Growth and Understanding: Foster the development of professional dispositions in counseling students, including ethical integrity, cultural humility, self-awareness, emotional maturity, and a commitment to lifelong learning, in alignment with the standards of the counseling profession.

Concentration: School Counseling 1

Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice: To cultivate culturally affirming, ethically grounded and self-reflective students who exhibit a comprehensive understanding of the counseling profession’s theoretical foundations, specialized domains, and contemporary development.

Concentration: School Counseling 2

Social and Cultural Identities and Experiences: To equip students to promote multicultural competence and social justice by understanding diverse cultural influences and addressing systemic inequities, discrimination, and trauma, while fostering empowerment, inclusion, and equitable access to services.

Concentration: School Counseling 3

Lifespan Development: To prepare students to apply developmental and cultural theories to promote resilience, wellness, and healthy adaptation for clients across the lifespan.

Concentration: School Counseling 4

Career Development: To equip students with culturally responsive counseling skills, demonstrate mastery of career development theories, assessment strategies, and interventions, enabling them to effectively guide diverse clients through career-related challenges while advocating for equitable access to educational and occupational opportunities in an evolving global workforce.

Concentration: School Counseling 5

Counseling Practice and Relationships: To prepare students to demonstrate proficiency in applying diverse counseling theories, models, and culturally responsive strategies to effectively conceptualize cases, establish therapeutic relationships, and implement evidence-based interventions across various service delivery modalities. To equip students with advanced skills in critical thinking, ethical decision-making, and professional practice, including crisis intervention, documentation, case management, and the integration of technology, while cultivating a personal counseling model grounded in theory and research.

Concentration: School Counseling 6

Groups Counseling and Group Work: To prepare students with the knowledge and skills to effectively apply group counseling theories, dynamics, and techniques in diverse settings.

Concentration: School Counseling 7

Assessment and Diagnostic Processes: Equip students to ethically apply culturally responsive, evidence-based assessment and intervention strategies to inform diagnosis, referral, and advocacy, while promoting client well-being and equitable access to mental health services across diverse global contexts.

Concentration: School Counseling 8

Research and Program Evaluation: To equip students to use research and evaluation methods to inform practice, advance the profession, and advocate for clients by applying ethical, culturally responsive, and evidence-based approaches to data collection, analysis, and decision-making.

Concentration: School Counseling 9

Addiction Counseling: To equip students to understand the neurobiological, psychological, and social aspects of addictions, and develop skills to identify, assess, and apply individualized strategies for prevention, intervention, and recovery.

Concentration: School Counseling 10

Counseling Children and Adolescents: To prepare students to demonstrate the knowledge and application of culturally, situationally, and developmentally appropriate treatment strategies for children and adolescents, including recognizing characteristics, risk factors, and warning signs of mental health and behavioral disorders.

Concentration: School Counseling 11

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Specialized Practice Area: To develop students who demonstrate the ability to navigate mental health service systems, apply counseling and supervision theory and practice, collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, advocate for clients, and understand licensure requirements and professional standards in clinical mental health counseling. Develop, through supervised practicum and internship experiences, an integration of the knowledge and skills needed to be successful as practicing counselors

Concentration: School Counseling 12

School Counseling Specialized Practice Area: Enact skills to design, implement, and evaluate comprehensive, student-centered school counseling programs that reflect core professional values and integrate foundational models, leadership, and advocacy to support the academic, career, social/emotional, and cultural development of all PK-12 students. Develop, through supervised practicum and internship experiences, an integration of the knowledge and skills needed to be successful as practicing counselors

Concentration: School Counseling 13

Personal Growth and Understanding: Foster the development of professional dispositions in counseling students, including ethical integrity, cultural humility, self-awareness, emotional maturity, and a commitment to lifelong learning, in alignment with the standards of the counseling profession.