Couple and Family Therapy Program
Prepare to become an ethical, culturally-responsive therapist through a program that provides you an innovative, high-quality education, integrating the most advanced approaches in therapy.
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Unleash your potential in a flagship program
The Master of Science in Couple and Family Therapy (MSCFT) Program prepares you to be an ethical, culturally responsive couple and family therapist. As a student in this program, you receive an innovative, high-quality education that integrates the most advanced approaches to couple and family therapy with application of therapy skills in both community-based usual care settings and in a relationship therapy clinic.
This program is the first, and one of only two couple and family therapy programs housed in a school of social work accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE), to offer combined training in couple and family therapy and social work.
You have the option to pursue the MSCFT degree or a dual MSCFT/MSSW degree offering coordinated competency-based training toward both Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Licensed Clinical Social Work (LCSW) professional licensure. Our MSCFT degree is offered as an on-campus, two-year program and the dual degree with social work (MSCFT/MSSW) is offered as either a two-year or three-year program.
There are five available concentrations to customize your learning and professional pathway, including alcohol and drug counseling, forensic social work, gerontology, mental health and military social work.
Learn from contemporary leaders, experts and scholars in the couple and family therapy field. In our unique program, you are trained to integrate the latest research findings with cultural humility to provide sensitive and effective therapy to clients across a variety of cultural identities and intersections of identities.
Our MSCFT is accredited by COAMFTE, and the program curriculum meets course requirements for Kentucky Licensure in Marriage and Family Therapy (LMFT) and clinical membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).
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Graduate Achievement Data for University of Louisville’s Couple and Family Therapy Program (MSCFT) Accredited: 11/30/1993
Advertised Program Length: 2 years *
| Cohort Year Students Entered Program | # of Students in Program | Graduation Rate in Advertised Time (%)* | Job Placement Rate (%)** | Licensure Rate (%)*** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FT | FT | FT | FT | |
| 2016 - 2017 | 10 | 80.00 | 100.00 | 77.78 |
| 2017 - 2018 | 10 | 80.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| 2018 - 2019 | 14 | 85.71 | 100.00 | 69.23 |
| 2019 - 2020 | 13 | 84.62 | 100.00 | 91.67 |
| 2020 - 2021 | 17 | 76.47 | 100.00 | 92.31 |
| 2021 - 2022 | 20 | 80.00 | 100.00 | 93.75 |
| 2022 - 2023 | 19 | 78.95 | 100.00 | 94.12 |
| 2023 - 2024 | 16 | 87.50 | 100.00 | 78.57 |
| 2024 - 2025 | 18 | 94.44 | IP | IP |
| 2025 - 2026 | 22 | IP | IP | IP |
FT = Full-time
PT = Part-time
IP = In Process: Students from the cohort listed have yet to graduate from the cohort year listed. Programs are only required to provide data on the past 10 years/cohort or since the program was initially accredited, whichever is shorter.
* Graduation Rate in Advertised Time is the program’s advertised length of completion which is how long the program is designed to complete as written.
** Job Placement Rate is the percentage of graduates from the cohort year that are employed utilizing skills learned in the COAMFTE accredited program.
*** Licensure Rate is the percentage of graduates from the cohort year that have achieved any level of MFT licensure. For master’s programs only, COAMFTE has established a benchmark of 70% licensure rate for each cohort.
Make your passion a profession
Let us educate, mentor and provide you the training needed to turn passion into a professional career. Pursue a degree or a dual degree, and customize your pathway with one of the five available concentrations, including alcohol and drug counseling, forensic social work, gerontology, mental health and military social work.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Couple and Family Therapy program has nationally recognized AAMFT-award winning faculty that value clinical work and the practice of couple and family therapy with ethnically diverse and underserved populations. The faculty are scientist-practitioners who do real-world, practical research based in the community.
Late applications are accepted on a case-by-case basis. When applying after the deadline please note the reason why your application was submitted late.
Our graduates are quite competitive in the job market. In the past 10 years, 98% of our graduates looking for jobs in the mental health field were employed within the first six months following their graduation.
Students do not have to choose a concentration in the MSCFT program. However, you may customize your learning by choosing one of the five available concentrations we offer, including alcohol and drug counseling, forensic social work, gerontology, mental health and military social work.
Students interested in pursuing an optional concentration in alcohol and drug counseling, forensic social work or gerontology complete nine (9) credit hours of coursework in addition to the 60 credit hours of core program coursework.
Students interested in pursuing an optional concentration in mental health or military social work complete six (6) credit hours of coursework in addition to the 60 credit hours of core program coursework.
Scholarships are available through the Kent School. Review the list of available scholarships.
Please email your questions to kentcft@louisville.edu and a Kent ambassador will respond as soon as possible.
Relationship Solutions Clinic
An innovative counseling environment coordinated by the Couple and Family Therapy Program. Located on Shelby Campus, the clinic is a Louisville community resource and is open to the public.
