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A clinical mental health counselor focuses on helping people address the personal, familial, and social issues that interfere with their abilities to lead healthy and productive lives. Our practice-oriented program equips graduates for a variety of specialties in mental health counseling, including community agency work, substance abuse and addictions work, in-patient treatment, and college counseling. Through a combination of classroom and field experiences, you develop a unique, professional identity as a clinical mental health counselor.
Engage with active, dedicated faculty.
Discover a faculty of professionals who are committed to preparing you for your career through excellence in teaching, active involvement in clinical practice and scholarship, and service to the community and profession.
Learn by doing.
Apply your knowledge, develop your professional identity, and fine-tune your skills in supervised practica/internships.
Get ready for licensure.
Prepare yourself for licensure by building competency in eight core areas, as recommended by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs: professional identity; foundations of social and cultural diversity; human growth and development; career development; the helping relationship; group work; assessment; and research and program development.
Program Delivery
- You can choose either fall or spring entry into this 62-credit program.
- Begins in both Fall or Spring
- Classes 1 day a week (2 days a week in Summer for Spring enterers)
- Internship starts 2nd year
- 6 semester program
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Job Board Lists New Jobs for AP Graduates
A long standing tradition in the AP Department
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Laura Copeland, MA ’89
Director of Behavioral Health Disaster Services
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene State of Maryland
What is your current professional role?
As director of Behavioral Health Disaster Services for the State of
Maryland, I am responsible for helping community mental health centers
develop “all-hazards” plans for behavioral health. In my first
year, I developed a collaboration between the Maryland National Guard,
Maryland Defense Force, and the State, providing training to licensed
mental health volunteers to work with National Guard families during the
period of time a service member is deployed. This collaboration is now
being considered as a national model.
How was your Antioch New England experience
most valuable?
I always felt encouraged to take my excitement and passion and develop
it. I can easily say that my Antioch education gave me all the basic
tools I needed to begin working with confidence and skill.
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