Graduate Counseling



Integrating Professional Counseling and Faith

Hurting people and families often seek professionally-trained counselors to help in achieving emotional health in a manner that respects their beliefs and faith. Our overarching goals include training students to integrate psychology and faith from distinct Christian perspectives, along with working respectfully and effectively from within each individual or family's own unique positions in life - which include race, gender, cultural background, and so on.

The graduate counseling department at IWU offers distinction in the following areas:

Integration - IWU's graduate counseling department is based on the integration of psychology, faith, and practice. As a Christian University, we teach our graduate students to wrestle with integrating their own faith with their own emerging counseling identities. Students become actively engaged with the professional literature concerning the importance of faith and counseling.

Academic and Cultural Diversity - Students learn from and are clinically supervised by professors from diverse cultural backgrounds who hold Ph.Ds in a variety of areas including Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy. The diverse training backgrounds of the faculty, each with robust beliefs in serving God's world through counseling, result in a well-rounded and academically stringent training program that well prepares our graduates for a wide variety of professional settings.

Clinical Emphasis - The University's free-of-charge on-campus clinic allows students to serve the community from within a technologically-advanced and professional facility that is among the country's finest. Decked with two-way mirrors and wireless recording on digital servers, the graduate counseling clinic provides for top-notch research opportunities as well. Students see a wide array of clinical populations in the clinic and are actively supervised by licensed university faculty. All sessions are professionally videotaped, which creates a fertile atmosphere for an excellent supervisory training experience to occur.

Options - Indiana Wesleyan University's Master of Arts degree with a major in Counseling has six separate specializations: Addictions Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Community Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, School Counseling, and Student Development Counseling and Administration. All specializations are available on a part-time or full-time basis. We also offer an Addictions Counseling Certificate, a Post-Master’s Degree Certificate, and a Bachelor of Science - Addictions Counseling.

Accreditation - The Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, and School Counseling specializations are accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), an accrediting arm of the American Counseling Association (ACA). Through the Addictions Counseling specialization and the Addictions Counseling Certificate, Indiana Wesleyan University is an Approved Education Provider of the Indiana Association for Addiction Professionals (IAAP). Our graduates are trained and expected to seek credentialing after graduation.

For more information about the graduate counseling programs, meeting times, and upcoming classes, call or email the Graduate Admissions Office at 1-800-895-0036 or graduate@indwes.edu. Allow IWU to help you develop your potential to change the world.