California State University Fullerton  

The Department of Counseling offers a Masters of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy, emphasizing clinical mental health counseling. Our program is approved by the California State Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to meet the educational requirements preparing students for state licensure as Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC) and Marriage and Family Therapists (MFT).

Our emphasis is on the training of clinicians who can serve the needs of individuals and families in their communities. We train students to provide brief and long-term counseling while maintaining professional identities as professional clinical counselors and marriage and family therapists.

The program strongly emphasizes a multicultural perspective. We prepare counselors who will be sensitive to the diverse and heritages, lifestyles and special needs of individuals and families. Both our student body and our faculty encompass a wide range of backgrounds and values.

Our theoretical orientation is grounded in humanistic, relational, and integrative principles. This means that we are respectful of different counseling philosophies, flexible in our approaches depending on client and student needs, and united in our belief that relationships remain at the core of all helping encounters. We also believe that counselors can best help people by understanding the relationship of emotional distress to family dynamics and to the social and cultural contexts that shape our lives.