Master’s Degree in Counseling Program Highlights
Help people become self-aware, establish a growth mindset, and master the challenges of life with a counseling master’s degree.
Counselors are skilled professionals who help their clients identify areas for growth and face life’s changes. Counselors use a combination of methods, including therapeutic skills and consultation techniques, to work with both individuals and groups. In any setting, counseling aims to help people develop their potential, enable advancement, and live more fulfilling and fruitful lives.
- Students in the master’s program in counseling study theories and techniques for working with diverse groups to address various issues people encounter daily. Students will complete a counseling practicum and an internship where they will apply knowledge and skills of counseling and consultation theories and techniques, practicing with clients in a supervised lab and gaining community placement experience under the supervision of a licensed counselor.
- Our counseling degree is designed to offer students online learning, clinical hours, and virtual guidance from counseling and mental health professionals and is constantly updated to align with standards in the mental health field.
- Graduates of the counseling degree have a breadth and depth of knowledge and counseling skills that employers highly seek.
- In some courses, students are required to meet weekly via web conferencing for live, synchronous sessions with their instructor and classmates. These meetings provide valuable opportunities to build skills through real-time collaboration, feedback, and interaction with the instructor and fellow students.
Why Earn a Master's Degree in Counseling?
This online counseling degree prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of mental health counseling. The master's in counseling will cover counseling theory, therapeutic intervention strategies, patient/counselor relationships, testing and assessment methods and procedures, group therapy, marital and family therapy, child and adolescent therapy, supervised counseling practice, ethical standards, and applicable regulations. Currently, this program is not accredited by CACREP.
Counseling Curriculum
The Baker College master's in counseling is a 2.5-year, 61 credit hour program, allowing for time to complete 600+ practicum hours. The program includes 61 hours in core courses, research and clinical courses, and capstone courses.
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Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Clinical Counseling Skills
Internship in Counseling
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Core courses for this degree program are not offered on campus.
For those interested, a selection of general education and prerequisite courses are available on campus each semester.
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Courses for this degree program are available through Baker Online.
100% online, this format offers flexible scheduling with 8-week semesters
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Courses for this degree program are available through Online Live.
100% online with set class times, this format offers live, real-time virtual learning.
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