Counseling: Mental Health Avenue
Did you know that you can become a licensed mental health care provider in all 50 states with a Master’s degree? Our CACREP-accredited program offers a two-year, 60-credit hour Master’s degree that prepares you for licensure in clinical mental health counseling or school counseling
Our Counseling and Counselor Education programs promote optimal development and holistic wellness across the lifespan by advancing professional counseling through development of counselors and counselor educators, research, leadership, and advocacy. We strive to enhance deeply healing relationships and evidence-informed practices in ways that are community-engaged and culturally sustaining. Our MS in Counseling degree prepares counselor-advocate-scholars with a strong professional identity and skills for effective practice in diverse settings.
Through our Counseling Master’s program at UT you can expect a high-quality program that not only gives you everything you need for a career in counseling, but you leave feeling like a strong clinician that also gets to lean into their passions with the ability to expand their course work into adjacent electives from other departments. You can collaborate with programs like Human Development and Family Science or Social Work so that your education is well rounded and formative to your specific interests.
One of the specific ways we prepare our students is utilizing the Counselor Training Clinic or CTC. This clinic gives students real career experience working with clients during their required internship out in the community. The Counselor Training Clinic is run by our student interns; these students get the full professional experience witnessing a client’s journey from initial referral to discharge while observing how a clinic is run. Our students leave with insight into the counseling career that they may not get anywhere else while also contributing to increased access to treatment across campus and the community.
“Nearly 1 in 5 American adults will have a diagnosable mental health condition in any given year; 46% of Americans will meet the cirteris for a diagnosable mental health condition sometime in their life; and the overall number of U.S. adults with mental illness is 59.3 million or 23.1%. Yet, the number of adults who did not receive any mental health treatment of tried and couldn’t find suitable treatment is 28 million.” [1]
Our communities need more professional counselors, and demand for professional counselors is expected to increase rapidly over the next decade. If you have a calling to be one of these mental health counselors, please click the link in our bio to learn more about how you can COUNt on us to get you where you want to be. [2]
Welcome to Counseling at UT. We’re glad you’re here.
