Prepare for your career as a licensed professional counselor in Texas.
Through our comprehensive online master’s program in counseling, you will gain the knowledge, skills and clinical experience necessary to practice as an ethical and inclusive professional mental health and wellness counselor.
Our program is offered 100% online, and our courses are delivered asynchronously in an eight-week format, allowing for schedule flexibility and giving you the opportunity to complete your degree around your career and family responsibilities. Upon completion of your degree, you will meet the academic requirements to seek licensure as a Texas licensed professional counselor (LPC).
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What Can You Do With a Professional Counseling Degree?
Completing our online degree in counseling and earning your LPC credential will open career opportunities for you in clinical settings, private counseling practice, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, government agencies, faith-based organizations, and mental health and wellness counseling centers.
Why Earn My Professional Counseling Degree at Angelo State?
Personal Connections
You get to choose your counseling supervisor and the location for your clinical practicums. Plus, you will build individualized, personal relationships with your professors and classmates while you experience relevant and engaging learning opportunities through a variety of course activities.
Award-Winning Courses
We strive to provide you with the best online learning experience possible! Several of our courses have won the Blackboard Exemplary Course Award, an award that recognizes faculty and course designers who develop engaging and innovative courses that represent the very best in technology and learning.
National Recognition
Though our program is one of the newest online counseling programs in Texas, we are already way ahead of the game. Our degree programs in mental health and wellness counseling and school counseling are annually listed among the best and most affordable in the U.S. by multiple higher education guides - and many of the courses and teaching practices from those programs are also featured in our M.A. in Professional Counseling.
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Committed to Your Success
Whether you’re pursuing a master’s degree, doctoral degree or certificate/certification, you have access to all the services in our College of Graduate Studies and Research. You’ll find information and resources for everything from registering for classes and writing a thesis – to available graduate/teaching assistantships and graduate research opportunities.
