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At Saybrook University, we empower students to create meaningful change through humanistic education. With compassion, innovation, and resilience at our core, we provide the tools and support to help you achieve your vision and advance your journey.

Your Path to Purpose and Service

We believe in your potential to create a better future. Our interdisciplinary programs are tailored to meet your needs as a learner, professional, and changemaker. You’ll thrive in a supportive environment that values diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, equipping you with practical skills and evidence-based knowledge to solve real-world challenges.

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Fast Facts

Accreditation:

 Saybrook University is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC)

Diverse Academic Programs:

Graduate programs in psychology, mind-body medicine, nutrition, and more, emphasizing holistic, interdisciplinary education.

Flexibility:

Fully online and hybrid-online programs with experiential components for working professionals.

Program Areas


Each program area is designed to empower students with the knowledge and skills to create meaningful change in their chosen fields.

Explore Saybrook University’s diverse academic offerings across six distinct areas:

Counseling

Empower individuals to overcome challenges, achieve personal growth, prevent mental health crises through interventions, and contribute to healthier communities through essential counseling work. 

Counseling

Humanistic Psychology

Designed for those who wish to contribute creatively to improving the human condition. Students are encouraged to explore complementary approaches—including meditation, nutrition, energy medicine, biofeedback, and spirituality—alongside more traditional forms of care.

Humanistic Psychology

Integrative and Functional Nutrition

Guided by an interdisciplinary, integrative approach, you will examine the field of nutrition through a systems-based, humanistic lens that incorporates the environmental, social, psychological, and physiological sciences.

Integrative and Functional Nutrition

Integrative Social Work

Advocate and lead with a person-centered, evidence-informed approach to social work and community well-being, where traditional principles meet holistic insights by earning your doctorate in social work or completing a social work certificate.

Integrative Social Work

Mind-Body Medicine

Guided confidently through our outcomes-based, person-centered approach, you will navigate the intersection of mental, emotional, and physical health to help care for those in need.

Mind-Body Medicine

Psychophysiology

Bridging the gap between psychological and medical science, you will explore the close interconnectedness between the brain and body as part of our psychophysiology degree programs.

Psychophysiology

Transformative Social Change

In today’s world of social, economic, and environmental turbulence, it can feel as if everyday citizens are left to fend for themselves. Despite these concerns, there are many around the world who are working for positive change. This is the focus of Saybrook University’s programs in transformative social change. Hope does exist, and Saybrook is eager to empower those who are ready to act on it, providing you with the capabilities to lead the transformations this world needs.

Transformative Social Change

Online Learning Powered by Community and Connection

Every degree program is designed for online students in mind. In all of our programs, core coursework is completed online.

While we champion online learning, we recognize the importance that community and connection play in your personal and professional growth. To foster this growth, many of our innovative online degree programs are supplemented by University Learning Experiences. These experiences are specifically designed to bring you, your classmates, and the entire Saybrook community together for transformational in-person and online gathering.

Residential Learning Experiences (RLE)

At these in-person intensives, clinical program students put theory into practice, hone clinical skills, gain professional guidance from experienced faculty, and acquire the residential hours required for clinical licensure.

Virtual Learning Experience (VLE)

Explore, collaborate, and deepen your engagement with your learning community. These online, synchronous events foster rich interactions beyond the classroom with your classmates and faculty.

Community Learning Experience (CLE)

Form meaningful connections, explore new ideas and perspectives, and immerse yourself in a transformative experience during this in-person, five-day event with the entire Saybrook University community.

Good leaders bring people along, walk in step with them, and own the results as well as the decisions. They own those decisions. They take the arrows right from that conversation."
– Jeremy Moreland, Ph.D.
President, Saybrook University