Professional Counseling

Professional Counseling

Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (M.S.)

The Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling is a sixty-credit program designed to provide students with the courses necessary to sit for licensing to engage in practice as a Professional Counselor. Graduates are prepared to work within mental health treatment agencies and eventually to practice privately. Courses are designed to satisfy criteria prescribed by the New Jersey State Board of Professional Counselor Examiners. In addition, because this sixty-credit degree is a CACREP-accredited program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, it may satisfy the educational requirements for counselor licensure in other states. However, it is the student’s responsibility to ensure acceptability by any licensing agency. PC-505 Mental Health Counseling (3 cr.) must be taken during the first term of study.