Counseling
Counseling Psychology
Why choose Loyola for your degree in counseling or counseling psychology?
Loyola's counseling programs emphasize applied research and professional development training that integrates social justice principles.
Our students understand that advocacy and innovative counseling approaches are required to address the serious mental health, educational, and career outcome disparities facing many disenfranchised populations.
We believe in the importance of inclusion, knowing that the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, or care for the whole person, means caring for us in all multi-faceted experiences, histories, diversities, and values. Our faculty are deeply committed to reflecting care of the whole person, the whole world, and to do so it starts here at Loyola.
Degrees Offered:
Disrupt inequities in our educational system and lift up underserved and disenfranchised populations with the MEd in School Counseling at Loyola University Chicago.
By the numbers
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AMONG ALL SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION IN ILLINOIS
95%
GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT RATE AT GRADUATION
40%
BLACK, INDIGENOUS, PEOPLE OF COLOR (BIPOC) STUDENTS
Counseling Psychology
Counseling Psychology student Tiffany Fang’s OP-ED published in the Chicago Tribune
In March 2021, author Tiffany Fang was profoundly affected when six Asian women were killed by a white gunman in the Atlanta spa shootings. Writing was her tool to reclaim the narrative and tell the story from her vantage point.
Read MoreLoyola's counseling programs emphasize applied research and professional development training that integrates social justice principles.
Our students understand that advocacy and innovative counseling approaches are required to address the serious mental health, educational, and career outcome disparities facing many disenfranchised populations.
We believe in the importance of inclusion, knowing that the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, or care for the whole person, means caring for us in all multi-faceted experiences, histories, diversities, and values. Our faculty are deeply committed to reflecting care of the whole person, the whole world, and to do so it starts here at Loyola.