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Graduate Recruitment & Admissions

Academic Contact

Reginald W. Holt
Associate Professor; Coordinator - Clinical Professional Counseling Program & Advanced Official Certificate Program in Professional Counseling; Behavioral Health Coordinator - Central Community Health Education Clinic
Counselor Education & Family Therapy
Grade Appeals Committee
AAUP
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Council on Alcohol & Other Drugs
Henry Barnard Hall
22504

Advanced Official Certificate Program in Professional Counseling

Central to Advancing Your Influential Career.

Central’s Professional Counseling Advanced Official Certificate Program (AOCP) is designed for practicing counselors and clinicians who hold a master’s degree in Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy, Psychology, or Social Work and are preparing for state licensure as a Professional Counselor through the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health or national Certification as a Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC). In addition, the AOCP offers an 18-credit Gerontology Counseling specialization track for practicing counselors. A certificate in advanced graduate work in Professional Counseling is issued upon completion, with a grade of B or better, of a combination of up to 30 credits of 500-level courses selected from those designed for the certificate program.

Program Features

  • Starts every January and August
  • UP TO 30-credit program
  • Attend full- or part-time
  • Classes available evenings
  • Financial aid is available
  • No GMAT/GRE required

One of the great benefits of the Clinical Mental Health program is that I can see my progression through many lenses: Maslow, Glasser, Jung, Adler at the top of my list along with the tools from DBT, CBT, Mindfulness, IFS, typology, systems theory, and TA. Thank you again for all you have done, what you bring to the classroom, administration, and profession.

-Alumni, MS