精神健康咨询的24学分高级证书计划适用于已经拥有心理咨询硕士学位并希望满足教育要求并获得精神健康顾问资格的学生。要进入此计划，学生在辅导方面的研究生成绩单必须反映出专业问题和道德，辅导理论，人的发展，辅导技能，小组工作，评估和职业发展方面的课程作业。在这些核心内容领域的基础上，心理健康咨询高级证书计划特别侧重于在各种临床环境中工作所需的知识和技能的发展，例如：心理健康咨询的基础，研究，循证实践，计划评价，心理病理学和心理药理学。该计划满足纽约州心理健康顾问许可的教育要求。要获得许可，学生必须完成教育要求，
The 24-credit Advanced Certificate Program in Mental Health Counseling is for students who already have a master's degree in counseling and wish to meet the educational requirements to become licensed as a mental health counselor. To enter this program, students graduate transcript in counseling must reflect coursework in professional issues and ethics, counseling theories, human development, counseling skills, group work, assessment, and career development. Building upon these core content areas, the mental health counseling advanced certificate program focuses specifically on the development of knowledge and skills necessary to work in a variety of clinical settings, such as: foundations of mental health counseling, research, evidence-based practice, program evaluation, psychopathology and psychopharmacology. The program satisfies the educational requirements for the New York State Mental Health Counselor License. To receive licensure, students must complete the education requirements, 3,000 hours of supervised experience in the practice of mental health counseling and receive a passing grade on the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination.