MA in Psychology (Online)

Saybrook takes an inclusive, multi-disciplinary approach to the study of psychology, exploring the breadth and depth of human experience through scholarly research, writing and practice. We encourage a lively spirit of inquiry and creativity; and an appreciation of diversity and multiplicity. We view a Saybrook education as a transformative process that endows the student with conceptual and practical skills, but also the self-knowledge and compassion needed to help others heal and change.

Saybrook's innovative program offers a spectrum of courses, including many that explore new ideas and forms of practice based on expanded definitions of health and wholeness that embrace both individuals and cultures. The program is designed for students planning or engaged in health care, teaching, community development, consultation, mediation and conflict resolution, counseling and guidance.

Students who earn a master's degree at Saybrook can transfer all credits toward a Saybrook PhD. Students pursuing a general (non-specialization) master's degree or doctoral degree in psychology may focus their studies in any of the five concentration areas:

• Consciousness and Spirituality
• Humanistic & Transpersonal Psychology
• Integrative Health Studies
• Organizational Systems
• Social Transformation

Students interested in applied psychology for clinical practice and licensure should consider Saybrook's PsyD, PhD Psychology – Clinical Psychology Specialization or MA Psychology – Marriage and Family Therapy Specialization.

MA in Psychology - Marriage and Family Therapy (Online)

The MFT specialization offers the current educational requirements needed to sit for the California Marriage and Family Therapy license examination. Saybrook's program complies with the requirements of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The program may also be compatible with licensure requirements in other states; however, state requirements vary, so it is the responsibility of the student to verify the licensing requirements of the state in which they wish to practice.

Grounded in an integrative humanistic and transpersonal tradition, Saybrook's MFT program focuses on personal growth and family dynamics, helping people to find their own voice and also to understand themselves as part of a family, a community, a multicultural world. The program addresses the emerging issues of racial and ethnic diversity, gender and age, honoring the multiplicity of ways that family and relationship are defined within cultures.

The Saybrook MFT specialization offers a personalized and comprehensive program that balances face-to-face learning with web-based learning and research. Foundational courses occur in virtual classrooms where students participate as a cohort. Clinical skills are developed in seminars and workshops during Residential Conferences. The research project allows in-depth exploration of an individual area of interest. Thus, students develop the conceptual and clinical skills to interact effectively with others and to help clients achieve healthy, life-affirming relationships.

PhD in Psychology (Online)

Saybrook’s psychology programs reflect its unique legacy in humanistic, existential, transpersonal, and phenomenological psychology. They offer an alternative education committed to the study of human experience from multiple frameworks informed by this distinguished historical and evolving humanistic perspective to respond to human needs in an increasingly complex world.

Our programs are designed for students interested in research, teaching, healthcare, clinical practice, community development, consultation, mediation and conflict resolution, human resources, counseling, and other related fields. Students can choose to concentrate their program in consciousness and spirituality; humanistic and transpersonal psychology; integrative health studies; organizational systems; or social transformation.

Students can tailor their goals and program plans to meet their individual needs and interests to focus on a selected topic area , select courses from multiple areas for a broad base of knowledge, or select a specific group of personally and professionally meaningful courses to address a particular interest or career need.

Students may focus their studies in any of the five concentration areas:

• Consciousness and Spirituality
• Humanistic & Transpersonal Psychology
• Integrative Health Studies
• Organizational Systems
• Social Transformation

Students interested in applied psychology for clinical practice and licensure should consider Saybrook's PsyD, PhD Psychology – Clinical Psychology Specialization or MA Psychology – Marriage and Family Therapy Specialization.

PhD in Psychology - Clinical Psychology Specialization (Online)

Saybrook University has been offering innovative graduate degree programs targeted to adult learners for more than 40 years. We take an inclusive, multi-perspective approach, affirming that the entirety of human experience is worthy of study. The uniqueness of our psychology programs lie in their heritage of humanistic, existential, transpersonal and phenomenological psychology. Key founders and early contributors to this tradition include such innovative thinkers as Carl Rogers, Rollo May, Abraham Maslow, James Bugental, Charlotte Buhler, and Virginia Satir.

Designed especially for students interested in both the practice and the academic study of clinical psychology, this program combines the scholarly expertise and research orientation of a PhD with preparation for clinical practice. Graduates will be scholars and practitioners, ready to have an impact on how psychology is taught in the classroom and is used in the field. This specialization requires courses in all the stanadard clinical domains recommended by the American Psychological Association.