Counseling & Applied Educational Psychology

Counseling Psychology PhD

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Program Overview

The Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program accepted its inaugural class in 2009. Our program is designed to prepare masters level students for Counseling Psychology practice and research in a variety of settings with children, adolescents, families, and adults across diverse backgrounds. The program meets the curricular and pre-doctoral clinical requirements for licensure in Massachusetts.  Currently our new Counseling Psychology Ph,D. Program is not accredited by APA. Now that we have two students who successfully matched during Phase I of the internship process, we will submit our self-study in August 2013 and will hopefully have an APA site team visit during spring 2014. For more information about APA accreditation, please contact c/o Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation Education Directorate, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street NE. Washington,  DC 20002-4242 (202) 338-5979; (202)  336-5978 (fax).

The program emphasizes:

  • Multicultural competence
  • Problem prevention and health promoting practices
  • An ecological and community-oriented approach
  • Expertise in outcome and counseling research

Our training goals are to produce graduates who demonstrate:

  • Knowledge of the basic areas of psychology
  • Competence in counseling practice
  • Competence in research and scholarly activities
  • A commitment to the profession of psychology

This program subscribes to a scientist-practitioner training model, emphasizing excellent practice, informed by research, and the generation and dissemination of scholarship. The course work, supervised fieldwork, and research are integrated throughout the program.

Take a look at our Model Program, Fall 2013