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Licensure

The MSMFT Program is accredited and approved, expediting career opportunities for graduates:

  1. The Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), 112 South Alfred Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3061. Graduates of the Program meet the educational requirements for clinical membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.  This distinction is recognized across the United States and internationally (See www.aamft.org).
  2. The Program is also an Approved Program of the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation.

Graduates are academically prepared, and, with the requisite post-masters supervised clinical work experience, are eligible to sit for licensing exams in marital and family therapy in each of the 48 states, including Illinois, which currently have MFT licensure. Program graduates are also well-positioned for further graduate training.