MA Counseling Psychology · MFT · LPCC · Christian Counseling
Become a licensed counselor in California —
MFT, LPCC, or Christian counseling.
One Christ-centered master's in counseling psychology, three licensure and practice paths. Built for working adults in Orange County, Los Angeles, and online. Pick the path below and we'll send the exact course sequence for it.
Curriculum designed around California BBS educational requirements
Evening and online course formats for working adults
Faculty who are practicing, licensed clinicians
Faith and clinical practice taught together, not separately
~$28,000
Total Program Tuition
1/5 of USC
Same California License
Los Angeles & Orange County
+ Online Cohorts
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Same degree. Three different careers on the other side of it.
Most people land here knowing they want to help people and not knowing which license they need. Read the three below, click into the one that sounds like you, and stop guessing.
Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT)
For you if you picture yourself working with couples, families, teens, and the relationships around a person — not just the person in the chair.
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Relational and systemic clinical training
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Couples, family, and child caseloads
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The most common license in California private practice°
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Church and ministry counseling settings
Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC)
For you if you picture yourself doing individual clinical work — mental health treatment, agency and community settings, hospitals, schools.
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Individual clinical mental health focus
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Agency, community, and school settings
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Additional coursework required to treat couples and families°
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Portable across many states with review°
Christian Counseling
For you if you're already counseling people in a church, ministry, or pastoral role and you want real clinical training without leaving the faith frame you work inside.
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Clinical skill and Christian formation in the same classroom
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Pairs with either the MFT or LPCC licensure path
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Built for pastors, ministry leaders, and lay counselors
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Open to students of every background
WHY STUDENTS CHOOSE KAIROS PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Most programs make you choose between your faith and your license. This one doesn't.
Kairos Pacific University exists to train clinicians who can sit with someone in the worst week of their life and bring both clinical skill and the hope of the gospel into the room.
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Built for people already working
Evening and online formats. You don't have to quit your job, leave your church, or move your family to finish this degree.
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Taught by practicing clinicians
Your instructors are licensed therapists carrying real caseloads; not career academics who left practice a decade ago.
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A price you can plan around
About $28,000 total. No hidden fees added mid-program, your rate is locked for the duration, and transfer credit is evaluated at no cost.
WHAT IT COSTS
Southern California charges between $43,000 and $152,000 for this license. We charge about $28,000.
Same California Board of Behavioral Sciences license at the end of it. Every number below is the school's own published tuition, pulled from their own site. Compare them yourself — the links are right there.
THE PART NOBODY ELSE WILL PROMISE
We don't send you into practicum alone.
You won't do practicum alone. Practicum is where most students stall out. At Kairos you're surrounded; faculty, a clinical director, and a cohort walking it with you. You're set up to succeed in it, not handed a list and left to figure it out.
"A dean reaches out. Fast, and personally. A real academic dean, not a call center."
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Four steps from this page to your first class.
STEP 01
You request info.
Takes about thirty seconds. No application fee, no commitment.
STEP 02
A dean calls you.
A dean reaches out. Fast, and personally. A real academic dean, not a call center.
STEP 03
We map your path.
Transfer credits, course sequence, tuition, financial aid, and your licensure timeline.
STEP 04
You apply and enroll.
We walk you through the application and get you registered for your first term.
~$28,000
Approximate total program tuition.
No hidden fees added mid-program.
Federal financial aid and payment plans available
Transfer credit evaluated at no cost
Tuition locked for the duration of your program
Full published cost breakdown sent with your info packet