Do you want to be a licensed professional counselor? Our CACREP-accredited program will help you prepare for licensure as a professional counselor in the state of Virginia. But it will do more than that. You will experience a cohort-based model of education with faculty who have practical experience as clinical mental health counselors. A recent grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has allowed us to expand our practicums to address underserved, rural communities, the opioid crisis and integrated mental health practice in interprofessional environments. Our students participate in practicums in local community organizations and with the EMU counseling center. We are a recipient of the 2016 Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES) Outstanding Master’s Program Award.
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Research Interests: contemplative practices and therapeutic relationships, counselor formation, the intersections
of the humanities and philosophy with psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and much more.
Research Interests: the intersection of technology and relationship, clinical supervision, pedagogy and
learning outcomes, and social justice issues.
Research Interests: children, adolescents, and families in education, social work, and counseling.
Research Interests: the integration of the expressive arts, specifically poetry and metaphor; grief and
loss, counselor formation and pedagogy and supervision.
Research Interests: multicultural intervention, training, and prejudice reduction, pervasive developmental
disorders, and developmental psychopathology.
Research Interests: Dr. Benoit Anderson helped found the M.A. in Counseling Program. Her area of specialty
was (and is) depth psychology, dreams and expressive work.
Research Interests: Dr. Glanzer helped to found the M.A. in Counseling program at EMU. His research interests
included psycholinguistics.
Graduate Counseling Faculty
Director of MA in Counseling; CACREP Liaison; Assistant Professor
Michael Horst
Assistant Professor; Counseling Center Clinical Supervisor
Jennifer Cline
Assistant Professor; Professional Practice Coordinator
Greg Czyszczon
Professional Development and Faculty Coordinator; Associate Professor
Teresa J. Haase
Associate Professor
Cheree` Hammond
Professor Emeriti
Helen Anderson
Professor Emeriti
David Glanzer
Program Evaluation Program Outcomes
EMU’s Master of Arts in 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.
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