M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Established in 1977 as the M.A. in Clinical Psychology program and revised in 2013, the M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program trains students to become highly competent mental health professionals with a responsibly eclectic clinical perspective for counseling work with individuals, couples, families and groups. As part of this training, faculty instill a vision for creative ministry informed by Christian tradition and by professional theory and research, and carried to the widest possible community throughout the world.
M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy
The M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy program is designed to integrate Christian belief and practice with the best of contemporary scholarship and professional standards in marriage and family therapy. Our goal is to produce graduates who are distinctive as Christians in their practice of marriage and family therapy, and who demonstrate a vision for clinical practice as service, especially to the body of Christ, the Church, and to marginalized persons throughout the world. The M.A. in MFT prepares students for professional licensure as Marriage and Family Therapists.
M.A. in Counseling Ministries
The M.A. in Counseling Ministries program began in 1999 and offers training in the application of psychological research and theory to ministry settings. Students in this program are prepared to work in churches, mission agencies, and other settings where lay counseling, support groups, and other healing ministries are provided. The program is especially designed for lay people and clergy who are already involved in spiritual formation, pastoral care and healing ministries, and desire more extensive training in the application of psychological studies to those ministries.
Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology
The Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology program was established in 1993 and has been APA accredited since 1998. Due to the strength of the program and its faculty, it recently received a 10-year APA accreditation. It has prepared clinicians to serve in a variety of both traditional and nontraditional settings including family therapy, rural psychology settings, and neuropsychology utilizing the practitioner-scholar model combined with quality clinical instruction, theological training and practicum opportunities. Practitioner-scholar training is necessarily clinically intensive with clinical experiences closely tied with classroom and research work.