Why Study Clinical Mental Health Counseling through Capital Seminary & Graduate School?
Bringing Help, Hope & Healing
Nearly 1 in 5 Americans suffer from mental health issues each year. And each year, many of those same people seek help from competent and caring professional counselors.
In our licensure-track master’s degree in mental health counseling, you will learn about the multifactorial causes of and research-based treatments for various mental health struggles. During this journey, you will be guided by a curriculum that’s centered on biblical truth using the Integrated Psychotherapy Model. Combining current industry-proven strategies with biblical principles, our experientially-diverse program allows you to move successfully from the classroom to the field.
What Makes our Program Different?
The program is delivered in a blended format, combining the convenience of online learning, without sacrificing important face-to-face interactions gained from classroom instruction. But that’s not all the makes us unique. Through our program, you can:
- Earn your master’s degree in counseling in as little as two years.
- Graduate prepared to sit for the NCE in order to begin your career as a PA LPC.
- We integrate both faith and science for professionals who hold a Christians view of persons.
- Maintain your busy work and family schedules due to convenient evening/weekend classes.
- You learn under the tutelage of experienced licensed professional counselors.
In This Program, Students Will:
- To equip the student with theoretical orientation that is necessary for assessment of the client’s learning, motivation, and character.
- To provide educational training to enhance the prospective counselor’s clinical skill necessary for individual therapy.
- To create within the student the ability to conduct critical thinking skills to evaluate theory and practice from a biblical perspective.
- To provide an emphasis on application of information and knowledge by means of supervised counseling experiences.
- To develop the student’s knowledge of the foundational elements in counseling theory and research to prepare students for further study.
CURRICULUM PLAN
MA in Clinical Mental Health (60 Credits)
Professional Core:12 Credits
2nd Tier Professional Courses:15 Credits
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Concentration:15 Credits
Elective Options:6 Credits
Licensure Courses:12 Credits
View the CATALOG for the complete curriculum plan, course descriptions, and further detail about this program.
60 credits qualifies for licensure in PA.
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Meet the Faculty
Day Butcher, EdD
Assistant Professor
“Teachers possess the power to create conditions that can help students learn a great deal or keep them from learning much at all.” Parker, P. J. (2007). The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher’s life.” – San Francisco: Jossey Bass/Wiley
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Jon Shacklett, MA
Assistant Professor
“We can get beyond merely embracing the tensions between piety and learning by fostering a piety for learning, by becoming the kind of people who see deeply into the reality of things and who love that reality–for the Savior who shed his blood for us also descended into the deep places of the creation so that he might fill all things. Jesus not only rules over every square inch of the creation, he also loves those square inches.” -Richard Mouw
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