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Overview Clinical Counseling Programs

Professional clinical counseling is a vibrant field with excellent career growth opportunities. Unlike other mental health treatment approaches, clinical counseling focuses on wellness and prevention rather than pathology.

CSPP’s clinical counseling master’s program integrates a strengths-based and resilience perspective to foster critical and reflective thinking, developing practitioner skills in diagnosis, treatment planning and psychological interventions with individuals and groups.

The Clinical Counseling master’s program uses academic, experiential, and research-based clinical practice approaches as well as direct counseling experiences in coursework and field placements. Many students speak of not only the education they receive through this program, but also the relationships they build with their peers.

Students also develop multicultural competence to empower the clients and communities they will serve. Being able to look at different cultures and views in the classroom helps students to be able to venture into diverse communities and serve as effective counselors. This process gives students the confidence they need to reach out to various communities in need of services that they may have not been able to reach before.

Accreditation

The Clinical Counseling MA curriculum incorporates the educational requirements set out by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Masters in Counseling Accreditation Council (MCAC) and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Programs (CACREP) 2009 Standards.

Graduate Career-Ready

All students graduate positioned to pursue the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) license in California and most other states.

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