With a marriage and family therapy degree, you’ll help others find hope for today—and wholeness that lasts a lifetime.
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Delivery
Blended
Finish in as few as
3 years
Estimated total cost
$33,000
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Molly Koetz
At Bethel, we're committed to helping you get the most out of your education. Your enrollment counselor is here to help you balance your program with your personal life and career goals.Program highlights
Expert faculty
You’ll work with experienced and passionate scholar-practitioners, all of whom maintain their own clinical practice and have a commitment to social justice.
Meaningful self-development
Through peer and faculty relationships, classroom interactions, and coursework, you’ll be supported and challenged to become a more whole and holy person.
Personalized clinical practice
You’ll learn to infuse your work with your life experience, ethical commitments, and theoretical and theological frameworks.
Practical application
You’ll be prepared to join in God’s restorative work to transform lives and relationships—no matter where you’re called.
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Learn to serve in a diverse world.
At Bethel, you’ll expand your cultural intelligence so that you’re prepared to address the issues and challenges of people from all backgrounds. Our M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy program is also deeply committed to social justice, which informs how we teach therapy and ministry. With these values—and a strong integration of Christian spirituality with clinical theory —you’ll be equipped with the skills to treat others with dignity, empathy, and respect.
The majority of our students pass the national licensing exam the first time
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Bethel prepared me in my career as a therapist, not by simply teaching me tools and interventions, but how to help people holistically through the integration of theology, cultural awareness, spiritual formation and family dynamics.
Aaron Merritt '13Current job: Therapist at Centerlife Counseling
One unexpected blessing from my years at Bethel was being assigned a Covenant Group. At first we didn't feel we had the time for meeting with these strangers! Fast forward 16 years and we still cherish our special bond.
Allbright Jones '01Current job: Pastoral Counselor, Prescott United Methodist Church, AZ
The Marriage and Family Therapy program at Bethel has far exceeded my expectations, I have gained a much stronger sense of what I am called to both personally and professionally.
Esther Davis '18Career Outcomes
Wondering what you can do with a marriage and family therapy degree?
The M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy program will provide you with the foundation to conduct effective couples and family therapy in clinics, counseling practices, nonprofits, churches, community mental health agencies, on the mission field, or in other settings that require relationship and family expertise.
Skills
You'll learn how to:
- Diagnose and treat mental health issues
- Apply family systems theory
- Collaborate care with insurance companies, psychiatrists, and other medical professionals
- Understand how theology applies to couples and family therapy
- Care for families from all cultures and walks of life
- Understand your own family dynamics and how they affect your life
- Identify individual and relational problems or unhealthy relationships
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research
Careers
Our graduates work as:
- Marriage and family therapists
- Directors of children’s and family ministry
- School-based therapists
- Church family ministry specialists
- Case managers
- Missionary pastoral care/coaches
- Private practitioners
Employers
Our graduates work at places like:
- Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge
- Nystrom and Associates
- Family Innovations, Inc.
- Minnesota Renewal Center
- David Hoy and Associates
- Counseling Care
- Bridging Hope
- Neighborhood Involvement Program
- Birch Lake Counseling
- Volunteers of America
- Private practice
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