Counselling Psychology - MSc - Thesis

This specialized thesis-based degree is designed to help students develop the philosophical, theoretical, research, and practical expertise required to offer effective psychological education and counselling.

The program offers you the opportunity to study diverse topics of particular interest to counsellors, such as: interpersonal communication, lifespan human development, family functioning, career assessment and evaluation, and statistics and research design.

The program follows a scientist-practitioner model of training and is delivered on-campus only. And our graduates have gone on to have rewarding careers in schools, post-secondary institutions, community agencies, hospitals, and in private practice.

Completing this program

• Research Courses: Topics include research design in statistics, qualitative research methodologies, multivariate design and analysis and more.
• Specialization Courses: Courses include Relationship Counselling and Counselling Interventions.
• Practicum Courses: Two counselling practicum courses in a supervised counselling setting.
• Thesis: Students will be required to submit and defend an original research thesis.

Research, not-for-profit organizations, community agencies, post-secondary institutions, hospitals, counsellors, private practice settings, intercultural communication, culture studies, curricular consultant, public and private education systems, community and non-governmental agencies.

A master’s of science degree in counselling psychology will give you the pre-requisite for a PhD.