Clinical Mental Health Counseling

The program is delivered in a hybrid format, combining the convenience of online learning, without sacrificing important face-to-face interactions gained from classroom instruction. Classes are typically held in the evenings and on Saturdays. For each class you take, you can expect to come to campus about once a month while earning your degree from an accredited Bible college. Our counseling program is founded on TRUST:

• Training highly skilled professional counselors to who pastors will confidently refer their members for mental health counseling.
• Reaching out to serve the under-resourced with special emphasis on counseling the military community, minority communities, and communities of faith.
• Unifying the church and society by preparing counselors to provide treatment and advocacy across doctrinal, denominational, racial, ethnic, and gender lines.
• Striving to be made all things to all people while remaining under Christ’s law.
• Transforming the field of counseling by translating our faith into our professional practice through intellectually credible innovation and research.

The MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling will prepare you for a wide range of service and/or ministry contexts. Here is a sampling of careers our MA alumni serve in:

• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
• Family Based Counselor

• 1Professional Counselor Identity & Ethics: The graduate student will intentionally develop a professional identity that emphasizes personal and professional congruency; relies on ethical decision-making; and applies theories, models, and skills of counseling informed by comprehensive knowledge of curricular domains and current research.
• Multicultural & Social Justice Competence: The graduate student will demonstrate the ability to recognize multicultural and pluralistic characteristics within and among diverse groups nationally and internationally; identify the impact of heritage, attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and acculturative experiences on an individual’s view of others; and respond to the effects of power and privilege on counselors and clients.
• Spiritual & Religious Competence: The graduate student will demonstrate the capacity to recognize the contributions of spirituality, religion, and ethnic worldview to shaping diverse expressions of Christian faith and psychosocial functioning; translate faith into professional practice through the application of Christian Integration research and models; and develop culturally competent strategies for mental health advocacy in Christian faith communities.
• Clinical Mental Health Counseling: The graduate student intern will demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to entry-level clinical mental health practice including etiology, assessment, case conceptualization, diagnostic process, and techniques and interventions for treatment while consistently demonstrating evidence of professional counseling dispositions and behaviors; professional oral and written communication; record keeping; and task completion.