Master of Science in Counseling: Concentration in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling

The Master of Science in Counseling: Concentration in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling (MFCC) provides the student with a degree that can lead to practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California. Marriage and family therapists (MFTs) are counselor specialists trained to provide assessment, diagnosis, and intervention for individuals, couples, families, and groups to achieve more adequate, satisfying, and productive relationship, mental health functioning, and social adjustment. The training curriculum emphasizes a culturally-informed and inclusive approach, and a developmentally-informed systemic-familial-relational orientation to counseling. Graduates of the MFCC program work in public and private mental health agencies, schools, universities, hospitals, private practice, and a variety of community service and advocacy settings. The MFCC curriculum meets all of the educational requirements for LMFT licensure in California.

A minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 in the last 60 units is required in addition to other criteria such as academic, professional and experience.

Minimum TOEFL iBT 80, IELTS 7.0 or PTE 65; some majors require higher scores.

Submit the Cal State Apply application by January 15 for fall semester.