Employment of relationship therapists, clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners is projected to grow 23% from 2020 to 2030, much faster than the average for all occupations overall, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Explore the many options offered at Seattle University and find the path that meets your own passion.
We prepare mental health counselors to be ethical, reflective, and multiculturally competent leaders and change agents to work in clinical mental health, hospital, agencies, and college settings. Our program holds the distinction of being the first school counseling program in Seattle to be accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).
Our new Online Clinical Mental Health program brings the same curriculum of our established in-person program online. We prepare mental health counselors to be ethical, reflective, and multiculturally competent leaders and change agents to work in clinical mental health, hospital, agencies, and college settings.
We prepare you to become a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT). Under the guidance of approved clinicians, you learn to assess, diagnose, and treat mental health and relationship concerns. You engage in self-of-the-therapist exploration to better understand yourself as a care provider. Graduates report being prepared to clinically heal and empower individuals and relationships from intersecting social locations (e.g., ethnicities, gender identities, faith traditions).
We bring together research and reflection from across the fields of clinical psychology, philosophy, and the humanities in laying a foundation for clinical practice. Instruction emphasizes reflective and experiential work, as well as the study of rich forms of qualitative research. It includes the study of first person narratives, existential and phenomenological analyses, and a close examination of the role of relational process in therapeutic work.
We prepare you for advanced nursing practice and leadership in transforming health care systems that serve individuals with mental health and substance-related problems and their families. Our program’s distinctive approach focuses on the integration of mental health and addictions treatment in community, primary care, hospital and outpatient settings.
We prepare professional school counselors to be ethical, reflective, and multiculturally competent leaders and change agents to work in K-12 schools, both public and private. Our program holds the distinction of being the first school counseling program in Seattle to be accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).
We prepare professional school counselors to be ethical, reflective, and multiculturally competent leaders and change agents to work in K-12 schools, both public and private. Our online program is modeled after our respected in-person program.
Our graduates are knowledgeable, ethical, and reflective educational professionals who lead and advocate for social justice. The School Psychology program prepares school psychologists to collaborate with professional colleagues, families, and the larger community to serve and advocate for students. Our NASP approved program develops school psychologists who embody and act upon a commitment to social justice, particularly among disenfranchised students and families.
Develop values, skills and knowledge in advanced clinical social work practice, including assessment of vulnerabilities, strengths and resilience in individuals, families and groups in social, cultural and historical contexts; evidence-based and culturally responsive interventions to restore and enhance functioning; advocacy for economic and social justice and human rights; and social justice focused, critical and professional use of self for service and social change.
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