Counseling (MA)

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Text on screen: Program Spotlight: Counseling (MA)

Text on screen: Muthoni Musangali, PhD, LPC-MO, BC-TMH, NCC, Chair and Associate Professor, Professional Counseling

Muthoni Musangali: The goal of the counseling program is to prepare students who will become professional counselors, who are competent and well prepared to work with diverse populations.

Text on screen: Ashlee S. Student

Ashlee S.: I’ve learned that counseling is not only a process in trying to help others and like the helping professions, but it's also like a personal process in dealing with things that you've been through in your own life.

[Footage of Ashlee in a classroom smiling and talking with other students]

Because of the relationships that I made in the smaller classes, I feel like that helped me a ton.

Text on screen: Practicing for Success: Learning Clinical Skills

Text on screen: Hemla D. Singaravelu, PhD, LPC, Professor, Professional Counseling

Hemla D. Singaravelu: A large component of our teaching includes a didactic component and experiential component. We focus heavily on the experiential component because this is where students learn their clinical skills.

[Footage of students giving presentations, as well as participating in client-counselor roleplay with each other, while Hemla oversees and guides students]

Purposeful speech, roleplays based on specific scenarios that mimic real life clients scenarios. And that is actually a major focus of how students develop.

Text on screen: Sherry H. Student

Sherry H.: Focusing on not so much what you might get in an undergraduate classroom where you're taking notes and you're trying to prepare for a test.

[Footage of Sherry participating in a classroom discussion, footage of students in a classroom engaging in conversation]

But really how it applies to working with clients, really moving more into seeing ourselves as professionals and developing a professional identity.

Text on screen: Real-World Experience: In the class. In the Field.

Singaravelu: So all of our faculty members are licensed clinicians. As such, they are able to impart a lot of the clinical knowledge in the classroom setting.

[Footage of a professor teaching in a classroom and engaging one-on-one with a student]

Musangali: Students are working to become licensed professionals. It's important that they are trained by licensed professionals as well.

Text on screen: Daniel B. Student

Daniel B.: You really are amongst like-minded individuals, especially your professors that have experience in practicing counseling.

[Footage of Daniel participating in a classroom discussion]

Musangali: Field experience in the counseling program is really the hallmark Our students have to have experience working out in the field where they're applying the theories that they have learned with actual clients.

Text on screen: Serving Diverse Communities: A Multicultural Approach to Counseling

Singaravelu: One of the things we take pride in in our department is actually trying to train students to be multiculturally competent.

Musangali: Social Justice, multiculturalism, diversity and equity are all part of who we see ourselves as a program.

[Footage of various classrooms in the Counseling Department]

Text on screen: Mona J. Student

Mona J.: I've always wanted to help people, I just didn't know which pathway would be the best for me until I found a Webster's counseling program.

[Footage of Mona engaging in classroom discussion]

These courses have really shown me that helping marginalized communities is really what I want to do with my life. Being in this program has really solidified that.

[Webster University logo animates on screen]

Text on screen: webster.edu

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