The Mission

In alignment with the mission of Loyola University Maryland, the overall purpose of the Department of Pastoral Counseling is to educate our students in counseling and care giving techniques which integrate the pastoral/spiritual  as well as scientific dimensions. We will create a collaborative culture that encourages students to flourish in a rapidly changing and diverse global society and that helps them develop deeply and broadly into competent caregivers and counselors. As members of the department we seek to be a reflective presence to our students, embodying the Jesuit values of discernment, social justice, and cura personalis. We will implement this mission through inspired teaching, service to others, and rigorous scholarship that addresses contemporary clinical, research, and pastoral concerns. We aspire to be leaders with a global outreach in the pastoral, counseling, and psychological professions.

March 2009