About the School

Fulfill your personal and professional goals in a flexible learning environment where you’ll enhance your capacity to act as a social change agent.

As a student in the School of Counseling and Social Service, you have the opportunity to focus on your interests in culturally and contextually relevant specializations and learn in the scholar-practitioner model, integrating research with your professional expertise. You can benefit from opportunities for interdisciplinary study and research collaboration, and use established methods of scientific inquiry and evidence-based practice for the greater good.

Walden is one of the only schools that offer a CACREP-accredited M.S. degree in Mental Health Counseling online.

Vision

The School of Counseling and Social Service envisions a future where students and faculty join together as scholars-practitioners to apply their acquired and generated knowledge to solve critical social problems in such a way as to promote positive social change in a global community.  

Mission

The School of Counseling and Social Service is dedicated to preparing adult learners as scholar-practitioners and agents who promote positive social change in the human services professions.  Students are mentored by a global faculty community of doctoral level scholars with a breadth of personal and professional experience. Graduates will be equipped with knowledge of contextually and culturally relevant applications and action-oriented research skills that which enhances their abilities to excel in unique practice environments.

Learn more about our online degree programs for counseling professionals. Request information or call 1-866-492-5336 in the United States or see a list of international phone numbers.