School of Mental and Behavioral Health
As part of the School of Mental and Behavioral Health (SMBH), the diverse theoretical orientations taught in the classrooms are woven into the fabric of the university-wide mission statement: "How ought we to live?"
Meaningful Mission
Our aim is to educate competent counselors and family therapists who advocate for individuals, couples and families who embody integrity and facilitate positive change.
Experiential Training
Students provide faculty-supervised, low-cost mental health services to individuals, couples and families in the endowed Regis Center for Counseling, Family and Play Therapy at the Thornton campus.
Degrees and Programs
| Graduate Certificate: Child-Centered Play Therapy
Our Mission
The School of Mental and Behavioral Health (SMBH) seeks to educate the whole person with informed foundational knowledge, real world experience and practice to provide healing, social justice and innovative community care.
The Master of Arts (MA) in Counseling degree (Specialty: Community Counseling) is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP), the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and is approved by the International Registry of Counselor Education Programs (IRCEP).
Center for Counseling, Family and Play Therapy
The Regis Center for Counseling, Family and Play Therapy provides low to no-cost counseling services to members of our surrounding communities through sessions with Master's level therapists-in-training.
Meet the SMBH Faculty
