Marriage and Family Therapy
Graduate Program
The Psychology Department at
California State University, Chico (CSUC) has more than 30 years of
experience training graduate-level mental health counselors. The MS in
Psychology – Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) graduate program provides an
integrated course of study that meets all educational requirements (sections
4980.37 of Assembly Bill No. 3657) for the MFT license by the state of
California. Our accredited program is designed to train highly
competent, professional MFT counselors to work in a variety of community
mental health settings. The counseling curriculum is competency based; skill
acquisition is emphasized by a strong core of introductory laboratory
courses and practica, culminating in a family practicum and/or
post-practicum internship in a community-based agency. Theoretical
background and training are provided in a variety of counseling approaches,
including multicultural, family systems, recovery/resiliency, and
post-modern models of counseling.
