MA with Specialization in Marriage & Family Therapy

The MA in Psychology with a specialty in Marriage and Family Therapy program (MA-MFT) provides you with practical, hands-on experience. It is a clinical, career-focused, counseling degree program which offers the current year educational requirements needed to sit for the California Marriage and Family Therapy license examination.* (As licensing requirements vary across all 50 states, individuals seeking licensure from other states may or may not find this program sufficient for licensure.)

In addition to private practice, a diverse field of career opportunities exist for those with a marriage and family counseling degree.  MFT's are highly sought after by organizations working with diverse and marginalized communities. Our students are working in drug addiction centers, GLBT service centers, hospitals—anywhere and everywhere that helps them reach the population they’re passionate about reaching. 

In fact, Saybrook’s MA-MFT program is designed to embrace outreach to diverse communities, with both traditional and non-traditional definitions of “family.” The world is filled with families celebrating non-traditional gender roles, multiple cultural influences, and new technologies that have the potential to bring them together and drive them apart. There are also families struggling with divorce and remarriage, with poverty, or with a parent in prison.

Saybrook’s clinical psychology programs are specifically focused on the knowledge, experience, and practical skills you will need to directly enter the profession as a licensed therapist. This includes core courses, hands-on training at conferences, and close mentoring from faculty who are active and experienced in the field.

You can join our graduates who are working in a variety of settings including private practice, schools and universities, community health centers, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, the juvenile justice system, substance abuse clinics, corporations and non-profit organizations. 

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Or, to  find out more about if the MA-MFT program is for you, please email admissions@saybrook.edu or call 800-825-4480.

* The program complies with the requirements of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (sections 4980.37 and 4980.40). More information about licensure is available in the Saybrook University catalog. 

Degree requirements can also be seen in the Catalog or on the Degree Requirements page.