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The CACREP accredited Professional Counseling Program offers students a 60-credit MEd in Professional Counseling, specializing in Clinical Mental Health Counseling or School Counseling. Program faculty seek to prepare, educate, and mentor ethical and competent professional counselors who are culturally responsive, knowledgeable of lifespan development, and optimize client/student wellness. Students have opportunities to enhance their self-awareness and build professional identities as counselors; gain skills in advocating for clients/students and the counseling profession; develop collaboration skills with other providers; and practice their clinical and school counseling skills in a diverse and technological society.
The Professional Counseling Program is an in-person synchronous program in the Department of Special Education, Professional Counseling, and Disability Studies as part of WPUNJ’s College of Education. Program offices and classrooms are located at WPUNJ’s 1600 Valley Road campus in Wayne, NJ.
