Student Benefits
Students: Build a strong future as a Mental Health Counselor
AMHCA membership offers unparalleled benefits at a low student rate of $69 per year!
As you begin your career, you’ll find that your work is challenging and places so many demands on you. One of the best decisions you can make to prepare yourself for your career is to join AMHCA. Supplement your curriculum with real-world, applied learning opportunities courtesy of your professional organization.
AMHCA exists to help you address all of your professional challenges. You need the benefits designed exclusively for you and offered only by AMHCA – the one association dedicated exclusively to the needs of professional mental health counselors.
For answers to questions about the Graduate Student Committee and student activities, please contact a committee member.
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Why do students join AMHCA?
- You are the future of the profession. The leaders and most successful mental health counselors belong to AMHCA and use it to form strong professional relationship.
- We are your lifelong career partner. Think back to when you first become a mental health counselor, and all the things you have learned and done since then. AMHCA helps you transition into the next phase of your career.
- It is the right thing to do for yourself – here’s why:
• Protect yourself: high-quality professional liability coverage is included with your AMHCA Student Membership (see the
membership application for details).
• Keep public policy supporting you, your profession and your future clients with AMHCA's powerful
advocacy initiatives.
• Continue your learning and growth with AMHCA’s
continuing education choices—in print, online, and in person.
• Search for positions using our
Job Board.
• Connect with your peers nationwide though the
Graduate Student Committee and learn about student programs
• Build your professional network of students and practicing professionals and expand your knowledge at AMHCA’s
Annual Conference – at reduced student rates.
• Reduce expenses with special member discounts on all
AMHCA products and publications.
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Online and print publications support your professional growth with research, clinical studies, and guidance for counseling practice.
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Donald Mattson Award/Scholarship
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Want to write for the Advocate? Here's how!
The Student Corner is a 500-word feature that appears regularly in the Advocate. The chair and co-chair of the Graduate Student Committee write or assign the Student Corner article for each issue. If you have an idea you'd like to write about, or a topic you would like to see covered in Student Corner, contact Melissa Gelnette, Chair, at Melissa.gelnettefabrizio@gmail.com.