咨询心理学博士课程的目标是准备辅导心理学家，他们将促进心理学作为一门科学并为职业发展做出贡献。该课程至少需要111个学期和12-15个学位论文学期才能完成。学院认可科学家/从业者的培训模式，并期望学生成为称职的研究人员和熟练的从业人员。教育学院的咨询心理学在教师和学生成就方面拥有悠久的历史：教师致力于在教学，研究和服务方面取得卓越成就，并且是该领域的国家领导者。该计划的学生已经在全国各地担任各种职务，并为该领域的许多领域做出了贡献。自1980年以来，爱荷华大学的咨询心理学博士课程就获得了美国心理学会的认可
The Counseling Psychology PhD program is committed to training psychologists who are competent in counseling and psychological services informed by the integration of diverse community engaged practice and scholarship.<br><br>Accredited by the American Psychological Association since 1980, our program strives to produce counseling psychologists who promote psychology as both a profession and a science and who apply acquired skills to the advancement of the human condition across local, national and global communities. Graduates find positions in a variety of settings, including higher education, counseling centers, clinics, private practice settings, and hospitals. Students complete course work in each of the following areas: research, basic psychology, counseling psychology core competencies, and electives. Additional training is obtained through a practicum sequence, research team membership, completion of a dissertation, and a full-year predoctoral internship. The program requires a minimum of 103 semester hours that includes 12 dissertation semester hours to complete. The program requires full-time study.