Master’s Degree in Counseling Program Highlights

Help people become self-aware, establish a growth mindset, and master the challenges of life with a master’s in counseling.

Counselors are skilled professionals who help their clients identify areas for growth and face life’s changes. Counselors use a combination of methods, including therapeutic skills and consultation techniques, to work with both individuals and groups. In any setting, counseling aims to help people develop their potential, enable advancement, and live more fulfilling and fruitful lives.

• Students in the online counseling degree study theories and techniques for working with diverse groups to address various issues people encounter daily. Students will complete a counseling practicum and an internship where they will apply their counseling skills knowledge and consultation theories and techniques, practicing with clients in a supervised lab and gaining community placement experience under the supervision of a licensed counselor.
• Our counseling degree is designed to offer students online learning, clinical hours, and virtual guidance from counseling and mental health professionals and is constantly updated to align with standards in the mental health field.
• Graduates of the master’s in counseling have a breadth and depth of knowledge and counseling skills that employers highly seek.
• In some counseling courses, students are required to meet weekly via web conferencing for live, synchronous sessions with their instructor and classmates. These meetings provide valuable opportunities to build skills through real-time collaboration, feedback, and interaction with the instructor and fellow students.