Counseling professionals offer guidance as they assist people with personal, family, educational, social, mental health, financial, and career decisions and issues. Counseling specializations include many areas, such as:
- employment, vocation/occupation, or careers
- rehabilitation from physical injury
- mental health
- substance abuse
- behavioral disorders
- marriage, families, and parenting
- couples and relationships
- gerontology and aging
- genetics
- multicultural issues
- stress management
Counseling often requires education in a particular specialty and licensing from an accredited body or government agency.
Several programs at JFK University support your interest in becoming involved in a counseling profession.
JFKU’s
Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) offers the PsyD degree, as well as the MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy that prepares you for future practice as a California-licensed marriage and family therapist (MFT). Specializations are available in addiction studies, child and adolescent therapy, couples and family therapy, expressive arts therapy, and sport psychology. The MA in Organizational Psychology teaches both theory and practice for the field of organizational change. Our certificate program in coaching fosters the skills you need to enable your clients to achieve the dreams and objectives they hold in their personal and professional lives. The MA in Sport Psychology program, one of only a few in the United States, integrates counseling psychology with sport psychology to explore areas such as optimal performance, coaching techniques, social issues, and substance abuse, in addition to child, adolescent, and family counseling. Our PsyD program prepares you in depth to serve communities in multiple counseling-oriented roles: clinician, program administrator and evaluator, consultant, educator, supervisor, assessor, and critical consumer of psychological research.
The
School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) at JFK University offers several programs that may be useful to professionals who are interested in counseling careers: the Essentials Coaching certificate in partnership with the
Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching; a BA in Psychology; a BA in Science, Health, and Living Systems; a BA in Social Ecology; a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT); and several teaching credential options.
Related programs from JFKU’s
School of Holistic Studies (SHS) serve professionals interested in counseling with a holistic, whole-person approach that integrates body, mind, spirit, and culture. The MA in Integral Psychology encourages personal, social, and cultural transformation through self-inquiry, academic study, and personal experiential research. The MA in Counseling Psychology offers three specializations (somatic psychology, transpersonal psychology, and holistic studies) that emphasize self-exploration and personal growth combined with critical thinking and the acquisition of clinical skills. In addition, the MA in Holistic Health Education may serve as the basis for becoming a health or wellness counselor.
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