Program Objectives
MS in Mental Health Counseling

• The program meets the requirements required for licensure as a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and many other states.
• Upon graduation, students in the program are able to demonstrate that they meet professional, legal, and ethical counseling practice standards.
• The program will prepare students to use evidence-based counseling practices in mental health counseling interventions.
• The program graduates students who have completed 60 credits of coursework and supervised field experience, typically in two years and in no more than five years.
• The program’s graduates demonstrate knowledge of issues related to providing services to individually and culturally diverse clients, providing services that are culturally competent and sensitive to individual diversity.