About Counseling
Loyola's Counseling Program offers eligible counseling graduate students a carefully designed curriculum that will prepare them personally, academically and professionally to become skilled mental health counselors. One of the program's core beliefs is that effective professional counselor preparation requires a continuous blend of three types of learning: academic learning, experiential learning and learning about self. Thus this program, consistent with the Jesuit philosophy of educating the whole person, is designed to help students gain knowledge, understanding, and skills in a planned sequence that builds toward more advanced concepts and more sophisticated clinical interventions, all the while emphasizing ethical, social and cultural concerns.
In accordance with the program's mission to incorporate academic, experiential and intrapersonal learning, Loyola University New Orleans offers a carefully chosen curriculum that blends these three components of learning. The overarching goal of the Counseling program is to educate and train students to be ethical, competent, effective, and thoughtful mental health practitioners. The program's objectives include the following:
- To educate students to be clinically and theoretically competent in the practice of counseling.
- To insure that all counseling students are exposed to and that they understand the ethical principles that govern counseling.
- To insure that all students practice in an effective and ethical way.
- To provide a diverse and enriched collection of training experiences during the course of the student's academic preparation.
- To integrate course offerings so that students realize how each area of specialization is integrated into practice.
- To encourage students to pursue additional training and advanced certification throughout their professional careers.
- To pursue creative training methods that enhance student learning while honoring ethical concerns.