Clinical Experience
In order to graduate, you will complete 700 hours of supervised clinical experience. Our program will help you find practicum and internship sites that best align with your interests, skills, and career goals.
Vast Outcomes
This degree will prepare you for work in a variety of settings such as community mental health agencies, hospital-affiliated behavioral health settings, counseling centers, private practice, and more. Some graduates also pursue PsyD and PhD programs.
Focus on Self-Care
To counsel others, you must take care of yourself! The Masters of Arts in Clinical Counseling will teach you how to design self-care strategies that will keep you strong and healthy as you work with your clients!
Full-Time Students
Students who enter in the fall semester and wish to complete the program full-time will earn their degree in just 5 semesters over 2 years, including 1 summer semester.
Part-Time Students
If students wish to complete the program part-time, they鈥檒l take 2鈥3 classes per semester, leading to an average completion time of 3 to 3.5 years.
Meet our Director
Julia Davis, Ph.D., NCC
Dr. Davis served as Chair and Associate Professor of Counseling and Human Services and the Coordinator of the Student Affairs and Higher 麻豆果冻 Program at SUNY Plattsburgh. Formerly she served as the Director of International 麻豆果冻 at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts and the Assistant Director of Study Abroad at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. She earned her M.A. in Secondary/Post-Secondary School Counseling 鈥 Emphasis in College Student Personnel Administration and her Ph.D. in College Student Personnel Administration from the University of Northern Colorado.
Dr. Davis pursues scholarly interests in the areas of international/intercultural education, women in leadership, college student development, and instructional methodology. She is an active member of many professional organizations for counseling, international education, and student affairs including: ACA, ACES, NARACES, NAFSA, NASPA, and ACPA. Dr. Davis served as a member of the Trainer Corps for NAFSA: Association of International 麻豆果冻 and serves on the Editorial Board for the New York Journal of Student Affairs.
Meet our Faculty
Wednesdae Reim Ifrach, REAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPC, NCC, CLAT
Wednesdae Reim Ifrach (they/them) is a full-time faculty member in the MA in Clinical Counseling programs. They have over 10 years of clinical experience working with the 2sLGBTQIA+ community, providing gender affirming care and in eating disorder treatment, including creating the country's first 2sLGBTQIA+ IOP/PHP for eating disorders. They are a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in multiple states, as well as a licensed clinical art therapist, an internationally registered expressive art therapist, and a board-certified art therapy supervisor. Wednesdae holds a Master鈥檚 in Art Therapy from Albertus Magnus College, where their work focused on Intersectional Social Justice and its integration with art making as an intervention for burnout in clinicians.
Wednesdae has prior experience as an adjunct professor and clinical trainer, teaching courses on multicultural and diversity practices, intersectional social justice, minority stress, gender affirming care, weight stigma, socio-cultural trauma, and eating disorders. Their past art therapy- based work includes participating in the Monument Quilt, which is housed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as guided meditations with the Museum of Modern Art and an art-based body image online class at the same institution.
They have a book slated to come out in 2026 focusing on the use of Expressive Art and Somatic Therapy for body image in Queer clients through North Atlantic Books, a book chapter on treating Queer adults with eating disorders in the upcoming book Queer Worldmaking In Art Therapy through Routledge, and poetry being featured in an anthology in December 2025 through Beyond Queer Words and Wingless Dreams Press coming out by September 2025. Their creative work has also been featured in The Words Faire, Etched Onyx Publications, and the WILDSound Writing Festival.
Additionally, they formerly served on the Board of Directors for Project HEAL and the Connecticut Art Therapy Association. They currently serve on the board for Prism Counseling and Advocacy and are an HPiT Co-Chair and board member for GLMA.
Michelle Santiago, Psy.D, NCC, CCMHC, LPC
Associate Professor of Clinical Practice
Dr. Michelle Santiago earned her doctorate of clinical psychology degree and has worked in a vast myriad of correctional, community MH agencies, survivor services, advocacy, and higher ed settings since 1996. She is a former Title IX investigator, a former member of the Northampton County Jail advisory committee, and a former member of the Society for the Psychology of Women Reproductive Rights Committee. She was appointed by PA Gov. Wolfe to serve the profession as a member of the PA Department of State Professional Licensing Bureau of Occupational Affairs for Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors
She is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Developmental Inventory (IDI, LLC), a diversity trainer for local denominations and mental health agencies, a member of the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling (serving on both the ethics and the awards committees), a founding member of the Clinical Supervision Research Collaborative, and considered a subject matter expert by the National Board of Certified Counselors.
Meet our Adjunct Faculty
Eliran Ifrach, ATR, LPC
Ordained Minister, Owner, and Therapist at Rainbow Recovery
Fat, Queer, Mixed Race, Jewish Background, Chronic Illness
As a therapist, Ron (he/they) offers gender affirming care, substance use treatment, LGBTQ+ issues and body image issues. He is also an adjunct professor at SNHU.
Ron holds a Masters in Art Therapy and Counseling from Albertus Magnus College. He previously served as the Chapter Delegate for the Connecticut Art Therapy Association and has participated in a local artist collective committed to art that encompasses and invites everyone. through art critiques, art shows and promoting artists鈥 work.
In the past, Ron has run an art therapy program for a nationally accredited Substance Use Treatment facility, aided veterans in recovery for C-PTSD, run community-based art therapy and supported people through the gender affirmation process. Ron is also an ordained minister and runs our 鈥淟ove Freely鈥 program. He provides equity-based pricing marriage ceremonies for LGBTQ+ people including pre-marital counseling.
Meet our Director of Field 麻豆果冻
Michelle Brandt
Michelle Brandt (she/her) is an assistant clinical professor and director of field education in the Counseling and MSW programs. She spent more than 20 years working as a social worker in the health care field with a focus on adults and older adults, hospice, palliative care, and oncology and has 10 years鈥 experience in social work field education. A strong connection to social work values and ethics informs Michelle鈥檚 approach to practice and teaching and a commitment to the social work profession has led to her interest in working with students in field education. Michelle鈥檚 research interests include ethics at end of life, grief and loss, and social work field education.
Let鈥檚 Talk
Jessica Skultety is your one-stop shop for all things School of Behavioral and Community Health related. Financial aid, admissions, student support, you name it. She'll be there to help pave the way. Schedule a meeting or connect with her via phone, text, or email.
Jessica Skultety
She/her/hers
Student Experience Mentor - Behavioral Health
(610) 625-7986
skultetyj@moravian.edu