The 48-credit-hour curriculum focuses on counselor education, supervision strategies, leadership skills, counseling services, and research methods.  The program recently submitted a detailed self-study as part of the application for CACREP accreditation of the doctoral program. The current master’s-level Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program and School Counseling Program are both CACREP-accredited.  Eligible applicants for the Ph.D. program are practicing counselors who have completed an advanced degree (M.Ed., M.A., M.S. or Ed.S.) from an entry-level counselor education program with 60 credit hours of graduate counseling coursework necessary for licensure as a professional counselor.

Faculty members have been the recipients of three national ACES awards, along with numerous honors at the regional, state, university, college, and department levels. James Madison University currently has an enrollment of over 20,000 students.  For years, JMU has been among the highest ranked public institutions in U.S. News & World Report's regional surveys. The university is located on a beautiful 472-acre campus located in Harrisonburg, a growing city of over 50,000, situated in the heart of the historic Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

For detailed information about the program, an interested candidate can go to: http://psyc.jmu.edu/counseling/supervision/index.html.