• The NSU counseling program is dedicated to positively influencing the regional and global impact of the counseling field through professional stewardship. This commitment will be achieved through the recruitment and retention of diverse professionals who demonstrate a willingness to engage in personal struggle, tolerate ambiguity, seek feedback, and grow alongside all counselors-in-training (CITs) and viewpoints.
  • Throughout the course of the program CITs will be challenged to apply their knowledge, skills, and dispositions to promote social justice and ethical conduct, thus enhancing self-actualization and sound mental health in self, clients, and systems they encounter.
  • The culmination of the program will result in counselors focused on self and client betterment who emerge as dedicated change agents, positively impacting the greater society in which they will serve.
  • The program offers a 60-hour Master of Science in Counseling with three emphases:-Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Addiction Counseling, and School Counseling
  • It familiarizes students with the use of scientific thought and principles as applied to the practice of professional counseling
  • NSU’s Master of Science in Counseling program prepares students for a counseling career or for further advanced study