Counseling Program
Our counseling program offers opportunities to explore all areas of professional counseling, including concentrations in addiction, mental health and school counseling.
Mission
The mission of the Counseling Program at Central Michigan University is to provide high-quality training that inspires emerging counselors to develop a strong professional identity and a lifelong passion for knowledge, wisdom and creativity. Through the implementation of our core program and specialized tracks, we encourage our students to be advocates for wellness and social justice. We help them develop the clinical skill necessary to meet the mental health, educational and career needs of an increasingly diverse society.
Vision
The CMU Counseling Program will become the pre-eminent training program in Mid-Michigan and surrounding areas for training; professional leadership; counseling skill development; knowledge; and research in clinical mental health counseling and school counseling; and will continue to expand its national reputation and prominence.
Accreditation
The Central Michigan University Counseling Program has been granted accreditation by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The program exceeds the requirements for all of its counseling programs (Addiction Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and School Counseling) leading to licensure/ endorsement and/ or counselor licensure in professional counseling.
DEI statement
We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging (DEI-JB), and we are committed to ensuring that the counseling program is accessible to all individuals. We expect the same commitment from students. We believe that each person has a social location that is not easily defined when we consider intersectionality and the many layers of different identities, which can be at varying levels of identity development. A person might be affected in different ways by all the cultures their life may have been part of in the past, have in the present, and the possibilities of the future.
Our goal is to collaboratively create and maintain a growth-centered educational environment that is focused on DEI-JB. Our intentions and actions demonstrate our commitment beyond our words and theories to the living applications and the realization of our highest aspirations. A more expansive statement on DEI-JB is included in the student handbook.
