Department of Counseling

Academic Department

Counseling at SFSU trains equity-focused professionals to support healing, wellness and social justice, preparing graduates for diverse counseling careers centered on advocacy, relationship-building and empowering clients across communities.

Welcome to Counseling at SFSU

The mission of the Department of Counseling is to train the next generation of counselor leaders who recognize that the liberation of all communities is only possible when an intersectional, participatory, community-driven approach to counseling is practiced. Our training program is grounded in the belief that counseling — as a field of practice — affords professionals the knowledge and skills needed to carry out social justice work via strengths-based healing and wellness, advocacy, critical consciousness development and action-oriented scholarship and research.

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