该课程包括理论，干预，评估和研究的核心基础。此外，整个计划所强调的核心原则包括多样性，道德，职业发展和自我意识。特别强调将体验式学习与基于研究的教学型知识相结合。需要实习作为最高经验。临床心理健康咨询，婚姻，夫妇和家庭咨询以及学校咨询的重点是获得咨询和相关计划认证委员会（CACREP）的全国认可。符合德克萨斯州学校咨询证书的学术要求，并成为德克萨斯州的持牌专业顾问，为在K-12学校咨询中以及社区环境中担任咨询师做好准备。提供重点放在游戏治疗和青少年咨询方面。临床现场经验来自当地学校。
The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) accredited program features internationally known faculty, two state-of-the-art community counseling clinics where students provide counseling to under-served populations, and a rigorous curriculum focusing on experiential learning integrated with the application of didactic, research-based knowledge. Core tenets emphasized throughout the program include diversity, advanced ethics, professional development, and self-awareness.<br>The Master of Arts in Professional Counseling offers a required course sequence that builds clinical skills through didactic and experiential activities. The curriculum includes core foundational instruction in theories, clinical interventions, assessment, advanced ethics, diversity, and research. In addition to basic skills and intermediate methods courses with specialty populations, students complete a clinical practicum experience in our clinics, and internship experiences at counseling sites across the Central Texas area.<br>The professional counseling program believes that well-prepared counselors are involved and committed to a process of intentional growth promoting pro-social autonomy, lifelong learning and ethical behavior. These ideals are fostered within a dynamic and multi-modal learning setting in which diversity, critical thinking, self-in-context, scholarship, praxis and the creation and integration of knowledge are celebrated. The program maintains the highest standards of counselor education which garners local, national and international recognition in providing excellence in academic and clinical preparation for the development of counseling professionals.