Counselling Psychology

This Counselling Psychology MA program is designed for applicants interested in working as researchers or practitioners in a variety of psychological and educational settings. This program enables students to apply for registration with the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) as a Psychological Associate. It also fulfils the course and practicum requirements of students who plan to apply to the PhD program, Clinical and Counselling Psychology field at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology or any appropriate bachelor’s degree that would contain the psychology requirement equivalent.
• It is expected that students will have completed 1.0 FCE at the third- or fourth-year level in each of three core areas of general psychology: biological bases of behaviour, cognitive/affective bases of behaviour, and social bases of behaviour.

What You’ll Learn

• Theories and techniques of counselling and psychotherapy.
• Interventions in counselling psychology.
• Cognitive and personality theory and assessment.
• Ethical issues in professional practice in psychology and psychotherapy.
• Intermediate statistics and research design.