MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING

Mental Health Counseling is the use of psychotherapeutic techniques for the purpose of evaluating, diagnosing, treating and preventing undesired behavior and enhancing mental health and human development and is based on the person-in-situation perspectives derived from research and theory in personality, family, group and organizational dynamics and development, career planning, cultural diversity, human growth and development, human sexuality, normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation. A Licensed Mental Health Counselor may provide psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, sex therapy and substance abuse therapy.