Graduate Counseling

Do you want to be a Licensed Professional Counselor [LPC]? Our CACREP-accredited MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree will prepare you for the LPC licensure process in Virginia and beyond. Located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, EMU's Graduate Counseling Program offers an in-person, cohort-based, and experiential model of education with faculty who have practical experience as clinicians. You will get real-world experience by participating in practicums and internships in on-campus and local community organizations, agencies, hospitals, and schools. You will graduate ready to launch a career as a professional counselor, doing depthful and healing work in the world!

EMU Graduate Counseling Mission Statement

We strive to achieve the highest standards of training for clinical mental health counselors, emphasizing applied clinical skill and professional readiness, counselor identity formation, service to the underserved, multicultural development and awareness, social justice through advocacy, reflective self-awareness, and celebration of diverse spirituality and values within a community environment.

Are you ready to:

engage a process of deep inner-work,

study and practice counseling theories and techniques,

learn and apply knowledge of human growth, development, and attachment,

foster trauma-informed, resilience-focused environments

learn and practice models of restorative justice,

form strong relationships with members of a learning cohort and a supportive faculty,

and serve your community as a clinical mental health counselor

CACREP Accreditation

EMU’s Graduate Counseling Program is accredited in Clinical Mental Health Counseling by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Students graduating with a CACREP-accredited degree can more often easily achieve state counseling licensure and experience greater ease of license portability between state licensing boards. Students with CACREP-accredited counseling degrees are often considered exceptional candidates for doctoral programs.

For more information about the counseling profession, contact the American Counseling Association.

Director, CACREP Liaison; Associate Professor

Michael Horst

Research Interests: contemplative practices and therapeutic relationships, counselor formation, the intersections of the humanities and philosophy with psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and much more.

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Associate Professor; Professional Practice Coordinator

Jennifer Cline

Research Interests: the intersection of technology and relationship, clinical supervision, pedagogy and learning outcomes, and social justice issues.

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Associate Professor

Greg Czyszczon

Research Interests: children, adolescents, and families in education, social work, and counseling.

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Professor of Counseling

Cheree Hammond

Research Interests: multicultural intervention, training, and prejudice reduction, pervasive developmental disorders, and developmental psychopathology.

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Assistant Professor of Counseling

Tamika Jackson

Research Interests: Spirituality and Religion, Multiculturalism, and Social Justice

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Graduate Counseling

Emeriti Faculty

Faculty: Helen Anderson (Professor Emerita) and David Glanzer (Professor Emeritus)

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Grant Funding

Our students make a difference in the communities we serve. Building on a $1.28 million grant award (2017-2021), a recent $1.01 million grant (2021-2025) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HRSA BHWET Pro) has allowed us to expand our practicums and internships to address underserved, rural communities, the opioid crisis and integrated mental health practice in interprofessional environments. In addition to many other benefits, these grants provide $10k in stipend support to our internship students who qualify.

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Graduate Counseling

EMU Graduate Counseling Mission Statement

CACREP Accreditation