Mission and Distinctives

Mission Statement

Huntington University's Clinical Mental Health Counseling program provides Christ-centered counselor training, equipping counselors to engage diverse cultural contexts through the cultivation of clinical skills, critical thinking, and academic excellence.

Our program seeks to develop the personhood of the counselor through a dynamic process of engaging leadership and students in a variety of contexts, one's own faith and relationship with Christ, and nurturing an emerging counselor identity through personal development and relationships with others.    

Our Guiding Vision

For God to raise up counselors who embody Jesus' shepherding heart, caring for all with knowledge and understanding. (adapted from Jeremiah 3:15)

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program Distinctives

• A 60 credit hour program leads to licensure as a Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). 
• The program meets or exceeds all Indiana state requirements for licensure.
• Integration of Christian faith and practice is taught in all classes.
• Professors are actively seeing clients.
• Classes are online in an accelerated 7-week format, with some designated classes meeting for 14 weeks. Classes have both asynchronous and synchronous components. 
• A minimum of one and a half hours of weekly faculty supervision is provided while students are seeing clients during their clinical experience courses.