Master of Education Counselling

Acadia University’s Master of Education Counselling Program will build upon the skills of students for a career in counselling both in school and agency settings. Graduates of the M.Ed. Counselling Program meet requirements for the Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) designation with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) and the Registered Counselling Therapist – Candidate (RCT-C) designation with the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists (NSCCT).

Acadia’s Counselling Program provides an accredited and quality-based foundational program preparing professionals for various work settings. Faculty associated with the Counselling Program provide a rigorous academic experience within a supportive environment, which contributes to personal, academic, and professional development and to the personal growth of students from diverse racial, ethnic, religious, geographical, and socio-economic backgrounds.

Admission Requirements

• Four-year undergraduate degree.
• Two years of full-time, paid, relevant work experience.

What You’ll Learn

• Preparation to be a leader in the profession through the pursuit of disciplined inquiry, understanding of and respect for human diversity, and development, use, and evaluation of effective counselling practices.
• Prevention, remediation, and amelioration of emotional, cognitive, behavioural, and interpersonal difficulties, and the enhancement of human potential and quality of life.
• Build the awareness and skills to work with diverse populations from individual, social, and organizational perspectives.
• Explore a wide variety of counselling approaches including existential, person-centered, cognitive-behavioural, narrative, and family-systems.