Will the Counselling Psychology program help me become a school counsellor?
The Counselling Psychology Program is designed for people who want to counsel in community mental health agencies for all age groups. To be a guidance counsellor in a secondary school in Ontario (there are no guidance counsellors at the elementary level in Ontario), you need to obtain a Bachelor of Education degree and have enough university credits to teach two different subjects at the secondary level. Then people who want to be guidance counsellors take Additional Qualification (AQ) courses in Guidance to qualify to become a guidance counsellor. The Ontario College of Teachers does not accept our M.Ed in Counselling Psychology to meet the requirement of Guidance Part I; Guidance Part II and Guidance Specialist courses.
