The Counseling Program's courses at ULM are completely online, offering a combination of synchronous and asynchronous formats. Students need 20 courses in order to graduate, six of these courses are synchronous and 14 are asynchronous. Many of our synchronous courses have optional Zoom meetng times during the week where students can meet with their professor and students to discuss the material. 

The 2024 CACREP standards now require online counseling programs to have students attend two in-person residencies during their time in the program. To meet this new requirement, the 2026 cohort will be the first group to meet this standard. The Counseling faculty are currently constructing plans for their residencies, more to come soon! 

The Counseling Program at ULM is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs through March 2028 for the Clinical Mental Health and School Counseling concentrations. To read more about the benefits of accredited programs, click here.

We offer a fall cohort model that sequences coursework in a way that makes the content relevant and meaningful to the students. Foundational content is given the first year, followed by advanced clinical content and internship experiences the second year. Students may go full or part-time.

In addition to the many electives the Counseling Progam offers, we partner with other online programs at ULM to offer students a variety of electives that will tailor to their clinical interest. Students may take online course electives in the fields of psychology, gerontology, education, and marriage and family studies to expand their interdisciplinary knowledge. Click here to review a list of available electives.

Faculty are committed to providing students with a quality education. Many of our content courses are capped at 15 and our Practicum and Internship courses are capped at 6.

We charge $550 per credit hour, and since our program is online there is no out-of-state tuition.

Becuase the Counseling faculty all work remotely, we have been able to recruit core and adjunct faculty who live all over the United States. The Counseling Program faculty have many years of both clinical and academic experience they bring to their classes to enrich student learning, as well as a variety of clinical interests that range from EMDR, Play Therapy, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Existential psychotherapy.