Mental Health Counseling Master's Program

Licensure and National Certification

The Mental Health Counseling program is carefully designed to meet and exceed the educational and graduate clinical preparation requirements for licensure as a professional counselor with mental health service provider designation (LPC-MHSP), which is required for counselors to practice privately and for counselors or their employers to be reimbursed for services through third party payers (e.g., insurance companies, HMO’s, Medicaid). The curriculum also meets or exceeds the graduate preparation requirements for the National Counselors Exam (NCE) of the National Board of Certified Counselors, which is used as the licensure exam in Tennessee and many other states. Meeting and exceeding the graduate preparation requirements for licensure in Tennessee as LPC-MHSP and for the NCE also helps our graduates be well prepared for licensure in the other states in which they may serve. The 60-semester credit hour program’s accreditation by the Counsel for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) and the program’s specific focus in mental health counseling serve to ensure quality counselor preparation and to ease the path to licensure for graduates.

Update 12/11/2006

Contact EPC

525 Jane & David Bailey Education Complex
1122 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-3452

Phone: 865-974-8145
Fax: 865-974-0135