Licensure Information

Our program meets the educational requirements for the licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) credential in MN.  We will help you determine if we meet the licensure requirements in your state. You can also learn more here:  Contact the state licensure board here.

Program Outcomes

All Master of Arts Degree in counseling students graduate with the key skills of a clinical mental health counselor:

• Social Justice and Advocacy: Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and practices to deliver culturally appropriate counseling services, advocate for clients, and understand how to influence policy to enhance the practice of clinical mental health counseling.
• Professional Identity: Show a commitment to their identity as counselors through membership and activities in professional organizations, and through ethical behavior in their work with clients and other professionals.
• Counseling, Prevention, and Intervention: Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and theory-based practices of culturally appropriate diagnosis, treatment, referral, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
• Assessment and Diagnosis: Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and practices of culturally appropriate and holistic clinical assessment and diagnosis of both psychopathology and normal developmental challenges, including appropriate use of diagnosis during trauma-causing events.
• Ethical Decision-Making: Demonstrate competent use of ethical frameworks and methods to make ethical decisions across clinical care settings.
• Research and Evaluation: Competently and critically evaluate clinical mental health counseling research, demonstrate understanding of evidence-based treatments and outcome evaluation, and apply appropriate models of program evaluation.

Program Minimum Expectations

To prepare competent entry-level art therapists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

Program Goals

All Master of Arts in Counseling with an emphasis in Art Therapy students will graduate with the ability to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of:
  • Adlerian and comparative theories
  • History and theories of art therapy
  • The Expressive Therapies Continuum
  • Ethical codes of professional practice
  • The connections between neuroscience and art therapy
• Demonstrate skills of:
  • Documenting and presenting case conceptualizations
  • Proficient practice of art therapy with diverse populations and acquire multicultural competency that reflects attunement to current global social justice and advocacy issues.
• Demonstrate attitudes/behaviors around:
  • Developing a professional identity as both an art therapist and an artist through personal creativity
  • The importance of self-care and self-advocacy
• The Art Therapy Program is committed to support institutional stability in:
  • Monitoring long-term enrollment management, tracking, and analysis.
  • Responsible resource management and development.
  • Securing and maintaining the highest level of accreditation available for the Art Therapy Program.

Art Therapy Annual Report

• Art Therapy 2022-2023SY Annual Report
  • Graduation Rates, Retention Rates, and Employment Data