Counseling

The program has two state-of-the-art counseling clinics with space for individual counseling, play therapy, Sandtray counseling, group counseling, and couples and family counseling. Students are supervised live by faculty while contributing their time to counsel community members free of charge. One clinic is on the Huntsville Campus (rural) and the other is at SHSU’s The Woodlands Center (urban/suburban). 

The Department of Counselor Education (DCE) has multiple faculty who are experts on trauma from working with child abuse survivors to victims of crime, transgenerational transmission of trauma in Indigenous populations, medical trauma, and the intersection of trauma and addiction or offending behaviors.

 So, our students learn under faculty who have decades of clinical experience and who have published and presented internationally on trauma and stress related topics. The CRTT houses the Graduate Certificate on Trauma and Loss and sponsors the Crisis, Attachment, Trauma, and Stress (CATS) Summer Institute, open to counselors and supervisors in the community.

Following admissions to the MA in Counseling or the M.Ed. in School Counseling, students meeting certain criteria may apply for the Doctoral Preparation Pathway. Selected students will gain specialized faculty mentoring to help prepare them to apply for the PhD program upon graduation, including opportunities to engage in professional advocacy and service with the faculty mentor and to engage in research with a faculty member.