Overview

Students learn about the counseling profession and develop therapeutic skills through practical experience, knowledge, and personal reflection.

Program Mission

The professional counseling program believes that well-prepared counselors are involved and committed to a process of intentional growth-promoting pro-social autonomy, lifelong learning, and ethical behavior. These ideals are fostered within a dynamic and multi-modal learning setting in which diversity, critical thinking, self-in-context, scholarship, praxis, and the creation and integration of knowledge are celebrated.

The Professional Counseling (Clinical Mental Health Counseling Concentration) program from Texas State University will maintain the highest standards of counselor education which will continue to garner local, national, and international recognition in providing excellence in academic and clinical preparation for the development of counseling professionals.

Career Options

The professional counseling program is designed to provide the training and course work graduates need to become certified as Texas school counselors, Texas licensed professional counselors, or Texas licensed marriage and family therapists. The Institute for Play Therapy offers additional specialized training in play therapy, sandtray therapy, and animal-assisted counseling that could assist counselors in becoming Registered Play Therapists or certified in animal-assisted counseling.

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Assessment in Counseling

Theories of Counseling and Personality

Counseling Diverse Populations

Advanced Counselor Ethics

Basic Counseling Skills and Abnormal Behavior

Career Counseling

Dynamics & Processes in Group Counseling

Psychopathology in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Developmental Issues in Counseling Children, Adolescents, and Adults

Child and Adolescent Counseling Methods

Research Methods

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-26 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-01 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-06-15 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-01-16 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-01 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-10-15 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-05-28 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

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Credits

60 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

San Marcos, United States

Disciplines

Psychology Clinical Psychology Counselling Psychology View 460 other Masters in Clinical Psychology in United States

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Academic requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university
a copy of an official transcript from each institution where course credit was granted
minimum 3.0 GPA in your last 60 hours of undergraduate course work (plus any completed graduate courses)
official GRE (general test only) required with competitive scores in the verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning sections
informed consent form
resume/CV
statement of purpose
three forms of recommendation (not general reference letters)

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

16380 USD / year

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Out-of-State

16380 USD / year

≈ 16380 USD / year
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In-State

9000 USD / year

≈ 9000 USD / year

Living costs

San Marcos

United States

921 - 1707 USD / month

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Overview

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Programme Structure

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Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

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Credits

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Campus Location

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

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Living costs

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