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Columbia International University’s Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling prepares you to support individuals, couples, and families facing mental health challenges. Accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), this program meets national standards for counselor preparation. The curriculum balances personal and spiritual development with professional knowledge, research, and clinical skills. You’ll gain expertise in counseling theories, assessment, diagnosis, and legal and ethical considerations. Training in multicultural counseling and trauma-informed care further enhances your ability to address diverse needs.
Through supervised clinical experiences in community agencies or private practices, you will develop the skills needed to become a licensed professional counselor. With a focus on emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being, this program equips you to make a lasting impact in the lives of those you serve. In 2024, the program achieved a 95% pass rate for licensure exams and a 100% job placement rate. View the 2023–24 CACREP Annual Report for CIU.
Our program offers a unique delivery format that lets you choose how you attend classes each semester. You’re not locked into being an online or in-person student—instead, you have the freedom to take courses either residentially or online, based on what works best for you. This flexible approach allows you to balance your education with your personal and professional commitments while receiving the same Christ-centered, high-quality training in both formats.
Campus • Online
August 25
60
$625
Seminary & School of Counseling
ABHE, CACREP, SACSCOC
The program is accredited by CACREP for clinical mental health counseling, ensuring it meets the highest national standards, preparing students for successful careers in the mental health counseling profession.
The mission of the Clinical Counseling Program is to offer professional training in clinical mental health counseling within a biblical worldview, in order to provide Christ-like therapeutic relationships for healing and growth.
Our educational model is designed to provide a balance of academic excellence, personal and spiritual development, professional skill development and counselor identity formation, which will help you grow in all areas of your life.
Here is a glimpse at a few of the courses you will be taking in this program.
For a full list of courses related to this program, visit the Academic Catalog:
This course is the application of the biblical texts to clinical mental health counseling and marriage and family therapy that utilizes a Christian perspective sensitive to multicultural settings. This course will orient students to basics in the interpretation of biblical data, the biblical narrative relevant to counseling, and how to apply these concepts when providing Christian-oriented counseling services to clients. Students will learn how to contextualize the biblical narrative for clinical practice within a Christian population.
This course is an introduction to the history, philosophy, roles, and functions of mental health counseling within the context of other mental health professionals, mental health services, systems, and programs. This includes the principles of mental health for prevention, intervention, consultation, education, and advocacy in a multicultural society. A key focus of the course is how the biblical texts and Christian traditions of soul-healing provide perspectives on human nature, suffering, and redemption to develop a model of clinical mental health counseling consistent with students’ own biblical worldview.
This course emphasizes personal and spiritual well-being and growth within the context of professional development as a clinical mental health counselor and/or marriage and family therapist. To this end, students will be asked to personally engage in a psycho-educational process of self-care and self-understanding through readings, reflection papers, and assessments. Spiritual development will be encouraged through a biblical understanding of and connection with God and His transformational processes, such as spiritual disciplines and connection to others through a weekly small group. The student’s professional impact and ministry will be developed as a natural outgrowth of their active engagement with these processes of development. Additional fee for assessment materials.
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