MA in Counseling Psychology: Coursework

Empowering Educational Format

This innovative training program uses traditional face-to-face teaching methods, online distance learning technology, experiential study tours across Mexico, and provides students with direct clinical experience. Course work is taught by both US and Mexico faculty with expertise in cutting edge clinical approaches in

Dialogue is part of making a difference in the world. - Paulo Freire

today’s mental health field. Classes are tailored for the working individual with many of the courses held in the evenings.

The program requires 52 semester units, which are taught in English, to cohorts of students in Mexico City. Instruction occurs through evening and/or weekend classes; weeklong intensives in the more applied areas of counseling (i.e. chemical dependency); and through online instruction. During the second year, students must also complete a clinical practicum experience.

Degree Requirements

Year 1: Fall Term

PSY 6308 Interviewing Techniques (2 units)
PSY 6309 Interviewing Techniques Lab (0.5 units)
PSY 6326 Diversity and the Family (2.5 units)
PSY 6312 MFT Theories (4 units)
PSY 7312 Sex Therapy (1 unit)

Year 1: Spring Term

PSY 6310 MFT Law and Ethics (3 units)

PSY 6313 MFT Techniques (3 units)

PSY 6323 MFT Techniques Lab (1 unit)
PSY 6328 Individual and Family Life Cycle (3 units)

Year 1: Summer Term

PSY 6643 Cross Cultural Topics: Critical Issues in Latin America (3 units)

PSY 6311 Introduction to Psychopathology (3 units)

PSY 6654 Psychology of Ethnic Diversity: Latin American & Liberation Psychologies (3 units)
PSY 6303 Group Therapy (2.5 units)

PSY 7360 Practicum (3 units)*

Year 2: Fall Term

PSY 7302 MFT Research Methods (3 units)

PSY 6317 Parent-Child Therapy (3 units)

PSY 7360 Practicum (3 units)*

PSY 7543 Introduction to Intervention: Systems Approaches (3 units)

Year 2: Spring Term

PSY 7311 Couples Therapy (3 units)
PSY 7360 Practicum (3 units)
PSY 7330 Family CD (2 units)

PSY 7156 Psychopharmacology (2 units)

*Students are required to complete a total of 9 units of Practicum, and may choose to begin their first 3-unit Practicum in either the Year 1 Summer Term or in the Year 2 Fall Term. Students who begin Practicum in the Year 2 Fall Term will complete their final 3-unit Practicum course in the Year 2 Summer Term.