Psychology, MA

Become a Licensed Therapist with Extensive Clinical Training & Deep, Holistic Academics

Respected throughout the Puget Sound region, Seattle University’s Master of Arts in Psychology (MAP) program brings together research and reflection from across the fields of clinical psychology, philosophy and the humanities to lay a foundation for clinical practice. 

Our master's degree in psychology gives you solid clinical training and a rich, rigorous foundation for therapeutic practice. Instruction emphasizes reflective and experiential work, as well as the study of a wide range of qualitative reflection and research on psychological healing and growth. It includes the study of first-person narratives, existential and phenomenological analyses and an intensive focus on role of relational process in therapeutic work.

You’ll learn to work skillfully with common clinical diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Your training will help you learn to be fully present with others through experiences of suffering and distress, how to facilitate a process of meaning-making and healing in the lives of others and how to work skillfully across barriers of social and cultural difference.

Empowered Leaders in True Community

The three-year master's in psychology program is a community of socially engaged individuals who stay connected beyond graduation, who support and help each other to grow personally and professionally beyond the academic years.

As a MAP program alumnus, your community will include peers, faculty, mentors, our advisory board and other colleagues around the region. Through dedicated mentorship programs, professional development and continuing education events, conferences and volunteer service networks, you'll have a place in this community throughout your career.