Example Careers

• Working in counseling agencies with diverse client populations
• Providing in-home counseling to children, adolescents, and families
• Providing inpatient and outpatient counseling services
• Working in hospital settings working with clients who have chronic illness
• Working with clients in various settings related to grief or death and dying
• Consulting with schools regarding youth behavioral problems
• Working in crisis centers, alternative schools, or group homes

Experiential Learning

Students in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling track have many opportunities to develop clinical counseling skills. Beginning in their first semester, students complete a mental health counseling practicum in which they observe the duties and responsibilities of a mental health practitioner.  Specific skills training occurs in core classes, in an advanced practicum in the Nicholas A. Vacc Counseling and Consulting Clinic, and in a 600-hour internship in a local community agency, hospital, residential care facility, or private practice that matches the student’s desired setting and specialty area.