School Counseling Careers and Internships
We offer individualized fieldwork placements with outstanding supervisors, many leading to employment. You’ll spend more than 500 hours in the field, gaining experience and honing your skills. We have excellent partnerships with local schools, allowing our faculty members to collaborate with those counselors to refine course content and providing a wide variety of options for your fieldwork.
So, what do our graduates do after leaving Springfield College? Well, we’re excited to share because our results are impressive.
During the past five years, 96 percent of school counseling graduates found employment as school counselors, with many of our alumni now leading counseling departments in both urban and suburban schools.
Our graduates can be found working in elementary, middle, and high schools around the country, including Massachusetts, New York, Washington, Florida, California, Colorado, Maryland, North Carolina, Maine, and Connecticut.
What contributes to the success of our graduates?
- A large, connected, and active alumni network filled with professional school counselors who are excited to help other Springfield College graduates succeed
- Relevant coursework and a phenomenal group of dedicated adjunct faculty who are current practitioners and who masterfully connect the classroom to the field
Careers
In a recent survey of 2022-23 graduates, 95 percent of students in the school counseling program who responded reported being employed. A sampling of our 2022-2023 graduate employers and job titles is below.
Company Name | Job Title | Location |
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Behavioral Health Network, Inc. | Counselor | Westfield, MA |
Center for Human Development - Behavioral Health Outpatient Services | Mental Health Counselor | Springfield, MA |
CRC Vocational Services, LLC | Career Specialist | Keene, NY |
Northeast Center for Youth and Families | Therapeutic Counselor | Easthampton, MA |
Springfield College | Academic Advisor | Springfield, MA |
Springfield Public Schools | City Connects Coordinator | Springfield, MA |
Western New England University | Psychology Adjunct Faculty | Springfield, MA |
Bureau of Rehabilitation Services | Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for State of CT | New Britain, CT |
Center For Human Development | Crisis Clinician | Chicopee, MA |
MA Rehabilitation Commission (soon to be changing to MassAbility) | Qualified Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor | Pittsfield, MA |
Mental Health Association Inc. | Salaried Outpatient Clinician | Springfield, MA |
River Valley Counseling Center | School-based Outpatient Clinician | Easthampton, MA |
Western New England University | Mental Health Counselor, Culture/Inclusion Specialist | Springfield, MA |