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Gallaudet’s Counseling program prepares students to become highly qualified counselors eligible for licensure as professional counselors. We offer accredited graduate counselor training programs with specializations in working with deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

Graduates from the program work in diverse environments, including schools, community mental health agencies, residential treatment facilities, hospitals, private practice, and federal, state, and local government agencies. Specialty areas include play therapy, addictions counseling, vocational rehabilitation, and functional behavioral assessment, as well as individual, family, couples, and group counseling.

The former CACREP-accredited counseling programs suspended admissions in 2019. We are now reopened as a low residency program and we plan to stay aligned with CACREP standards until we are able to reapply for CACREP accreditation in the fall of 2024.

The cost of attendance can be found on our Graduate Tuition and Fees page. Financial aid options can be found on our Financial Aid and Scholarship Information page.

PROGRAM MISSION STATEMENT:

The Counseling program prepares graduates to be multiculturally competent professional counselors, able to work skillfully with deaf, hard of hearing, and  hearing clients of diverse backgrounds, identities, and worldviews in a variety of settings. Our training models emphasize the development of cultural self-awareness, sensitivity, knowledge, and skills essential to  becoming effective and ethical practitioners who are able to influence individual, group,  organizational and systemic changes that promote health and well being for all persons in the  context of social justice and multiculturalism. Faculty members are committed to promoting  interpersonal values which support our professional relations with others. These values include  compassion, self-awareness, genuineness, commitment to social justice, and an authentic appreciation of diversity. [Revised Feb. ‘09] 

Areas of Study

Online Degrees and Certifications

M.A. in Counseling: Clinical Mental Health Counseling

The M.A. in Counseling program prepares graduates to be multiculturally competent professional counselors with the cultural self-awareness, sensitivity, knowledge, and skills essential to becoming effective and ethical practitioners, leaders, and...

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M.A. in Counseling: School Counseling

The M.A. in Counseling program prepares graduates to be multiculturally competent professional counselors with the cultural self-awareness, sensitivity, knowledge, and skills essential to becoming effective and ethical practitioners, leaders, and...

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Daniel Koo

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Gabriel Lomas

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Jessica Guess

Lecturer II

Jessica Kuehne

Adjunct Faculty II

Alexis Greeves

Senior Adjunct

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