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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 ¸£Àû¼§’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. 

The ¸£Àû¼§ Department of Counselor Education (DCE)’s Institute for Play Therapy is one of a select group of centers for training approved by the Association for Play Therapy. The faculty includes multiple Registered Play Therapist Supervisors (RPT-S) and additional faculty with advanced training who earned the Registered Play Therapist (RPT) credential, the Animal Assisted Therapy credential, and multiple experts in Sandtray therapy. The IPT houses the Play Therapy Graduate Certificate, which provides the educational requirements for RPT credentialing, and as part of the Crisis, Attachment, Trauma, and Stress (CATS) Summer Institute, the IPT provides play therapy specific continuing education workshops for professionals who want to gain additional training or maintenance of their RPT/RPT-S credentials. 

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.