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Contact Us
Pocatello Campus:
Admin: 208-282-3156
Dr. David Kleist: 208-282-4315
Meridian Campus:
Admin: 208-373-1806
Dr. Elizabeth Horn: 208-373-1718 (Dr. Horn is on Sabbatical starting Spring 2026.)
History
The Department of Counseling was created in 1958, awarded its first degrees in 1960, and became the first counseling program in the United States to be nationally accredited in 1981. Currently, all the Department's programs are accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The newest specialty, Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling major, commenced in the fall of 2000 and received CACREP accreditation in the spring of 2002. A Masters of Counseling Evening School Program was offered from 1991-2011 in three-year cohorts on the ISU-Pocatello campus. In addition to its masters' degree programs, the Department offers a nationally recognized Ph.D. program in Counselor Education and Counseling.
Shoshone-Bannock Land Acknowledgement
The land on which Idaho State University’s Pocatello campus sits is within the original Fort Hall Reservation boundaries and is the traditional and ancestral home of the Shoshone and Bannock peoples. We acknowledge the Fort Hall Shoshone and Bannock peoples, their elders past and present, their future generations, and all Indigenous peoples, including those upon whose land the University is located. We offer gratitude for the land itself and the original caretakers of it.
As a public research university, it is our ongoing commitment and responsibility to teach accurate histories of the regional Indigenous people and of our institutional relationship with them. It is our commitment to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and to ISU’s citizens that we will collaborate on future educational discourse and activities in our communities.
Non-Discrimination Statement
The Idaho State University Counseling Department opposes discrimination against any individual based on age, culture, ability status, ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual and affectional identity, marital/partnership status, language preference, socioeconomic status, social class, size, or unique physical characteristics.