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Online MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Careers

Learn the Ins and Outs of Counseling with an Online MS Degree

Synchronous Components

Fully Online Coursework

Mental Health Counselors are always in high demand, and with the versatility of the profession, there are many fields with competitive salaries to find work in. Eastern Oregon University’s clinical mental health counseling program will ensure you become a competitive candidate upon graduation.

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Essential Mental Health Counseling Careers

Mental Health Counselor1 $48,520 per year

School Services Counselor2 $60,510 per year

Career Counselor2 $60,510 per year

Work to Help Others as a Professional Counselor

With an MS degree that utilizes advanced curriculum, you will be well on your way to an impactful role with many opportunities. The demand for well-educated mental health counselors is expected to grow significantly in the coming years.

  • Employment of mental health counselors is projected to grow 22% from 2021 to 2031.1
  • This growth will result in 43,600 new positions per year.1

Program Outcomes and Skills Acquired

What You’ll Learn

During your course of study at EOU, you’ll learn to:

  • Professional counseling orientation and ethical practice: To train counseling students that can demonstrate and utilize ethical and legal standards across counselor roles, responsibilities, and identity to develop a strong counselor identity
  • Social and Cultural Diversity: To train counseling students that can demonstrate and utilize social and cultural contexts within the treatment of individuals, couples, and families through culturally competent counseling practice
  • Human growth and Development: To train counseling students that can demonstrate and utilize aspects of human development across the lifespan and within the counseling process
  • Career development: To train counseling students that can demonstrate and utilize career development theory while navigating the interrelationships between work and mental well-being
  • Counseling and helping relationships: To train counseling students that can demonstrate and utilize the characteristics, behaviors, and counseling skills of counselors to develop therapeutic, helping relationships
  • Group counseling and group work: To train counseling students that can demonstrate and utilize the dynamics, strategies, and conditions associated with effective group work
  • Assessment and testing: To train counseling students that can demonstrate and utilize assessment data to diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders
  • Research and program evaluation: To train counseling students that can demonstrate and utilize evidence-based research, needs assessment, and program evaluation to inform counseling practice
  • Clinical mental health counseling: To train counselors that can demonstrate their professional identity and roles within service delivery and can utilize intake practices, diagnostic criteria, treatment modalities, treatment planning, and client advocacy to assess and develop interventions and measure outcomes
  • Professional practice: To train counselors that can demonstrate, utilize, and integrate knowledge and skills through culturally and developmentally relevant strategies for best practice through supervised practicum and internship experiences

Skills You’ll Gain

  • Social and behavioral health work
  • Research
  • Planning and evaluation
  • Communication
  • Critical thinking

Career Support

Prepare for the role you want with the career support services offered by Eastern Oregon University. As a student and a graduate, you’ll benefit from a variety of services designed to help you stand out among employers and succeed professionally in your field.

Career Services

Eastern Oregon University Career Services offers in-person coaching and online resources to help students broaden their career choices and understand the value of their education in relation to employment. This includes outreach to all students in all academic programs, on and off campus, coupled with outreach to employers, service providers and government agencies.

Fieldwork/Practicum through EOU’s Career Services

EOU offers diverse fieldwork and practicum opportunities each term that allow students the mechanism to earn college credit tied directly to their current employment.

Career Readiness: Resume and Cover Letter Assistance

EOU Career Services has a robust collection of tutorials available to students, including information on resumes, cover letters, interview skills and soft skills.

Sources

  1. “Occupational Outlook Handbook: Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors.” Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved on November 16, 2022 from https://www.bls.gov/.
  2. “Occupational Outlook Handbook: School and Career Counselors and Advisors.” Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved on November 16, 2022 from https://www.bls.gov/.