Overview

Through the flexible online coursework, you’ll build a solid foundation in counseling theory and learn to deliver mental health services that address clients’ developmental, multicultural, relational, and spiritual concerns.

You’ll graduate from North Park University ready to help clients improve their mental health. The Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Online) graduates practice ethical decision-making and demonstrate advocacy in a variety of roles. They boast a 95% job placement rate for their graduates.

Key Features

The program will prepare you to make a lasting impact on clients’ lives. You’ll graduate with the skills you need to sit for licensure and begin practicing in a variety of settings. Through the supportive environment at North Park, you can become an ethical and empathetic mental health professional.

North Park University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program provides comprehensive academic and clinical training in professional counseling, equipping students to be ethically skilled counselors serving culturally and spiritually diverse communities. The CMHC program prepares counselors for lives of significance and service throughout their professional careers.

Program Outcomes

Differentiate the professional identity of Clinical Mental Health Counselors from other mental health practitioners.

Analyze the principles of ethical decision making in the practice of professional counseling.

Demonstrate multicultural theory, social justice principles, and advocacy in the practice of counseling.

Compare and contrast relevant theories of counseling practice in appropriate counseling and consultation skills with diverse populations.

Apply group work theories, methods, and skills to clinical practice.

Describe appropriate assessment and appraisal tools within counseling practice.

Implement research in clinical practice and program evaluation to inform their counseling practice.

Deliver clinical mental health services which attend to the developmental, multicultural, relational, and spiritual concerns of clients.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Counseling Techniques

Integrating Spiritual & Religious Issues in Counseling

Trauma & Healing

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-10-27 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-13 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

60 SCH

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Chicago, United States

Disciplines

Clinical Psychology Counselling Psychology View 256 other Masters in Counselling Psychology in United States

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Academic requirements

GPA

2.7

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

A bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.

Recommended GPA of 2.75 or higher (on a 4.0 scale).

Provide official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended.

You may transfer up to six credits into the program from an accredited institution. They must be within the last 10 years and be a grade of B or higher. Any of those 6-credits accepted for transfer will need to be first determined by the CMHC director.

An electronic copy of your current resume.

Two professional and/or academic recommendations.

An essay.

Interview with faculty member.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

25800 USD / year

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Out-of-State

25800 USD / year

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Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

25800 USD / year

≈ 25800 USD / year

Funding

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