Certification in School Counseling

The purpose of this proposal is to provide a pathway for school counselors who have earned a master’s degree in mental health counseling or a closely-related field and are hired as school counselors on provisional licenses from the Georgia Professional Standards Commission. Completion of the program would allow for recommendation for state certification as a school counselor in Georgia.

Admission Criteria

To be admitted to the School Counseling Certificate-only program, applicants must have prior to admission:

Employment as a school counselor for the year that the candidate will be completing coursework,
Have obtained a provisional certificate from the Georgia Professional Standards Commission for practicing school counseling, and either:

Have graduated from a CACREP-accredited Master’s Degree program in a specialty area other than school counseling (e.g., clinical mental health counseling) and also have completed a supervised counseling practicum in a current licensed area of at least 100 hours, with 40 hours direct client service, in a mental health, school, or rehabilitation counseling setting.

—OR—

Taken the equivalent of each of the following master’s level, core counseling courses, to be evaluated by UGA School Counseling faculty:

Professional Counseling and Ethics
Social and Cultural Foundations in Counseling
Lifespan Development
Career Development and Counseling
Basic Counseling skills
Counseling Theories
Group Counseling
Assessment and Diagnostic Process
Research and Program Evaluation

Deadline to Apply

The application deadline is April 1 for admission for the summer semester. Students are admitted to begin the program in the summer semester only. Choose the Gwinnett campus, non-degree-transient, Non_GM_TC_GW program, with an area of emphasis in School Counseling.

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