Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Counseling, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

This 100% online certificate program prepares students and practitioners to better serve populations in a variety of counseling and ministry settings, including hospitals, private practice, community agencies, churches, rescue missions, shelters, and/or faith-based counseling centers. This certificate program is also well-suited for individuals serving unique populations, such as military, hospice patients and families, and sports chaplains. Professional helpers learn to understand and apply spiritual and religious aspects of counseling in an ethical, client-centered manner. This program will provide competencies in four core areas of study: 1) Self-awareness and knowledge of applied theory to practical contextual settings of spiritual, ethical, and religious counseling, 2) Ethics in spiritual and religious counseling, 3) Grief and loss counseling and care, and/or contemporary spiritual, ethical, and religious perspectives in counseling, and 4) The integration and application of spiritual, ethical, and religious counseling skills into the counseling and ministry process.