Goals and Outcomes
The goal of the Counseling school is to educate and prepare individuals and groups to provide culturally sensitive counseling to those in need.
Counseling school outcomes
The program will develop confident, competent, and reflective counselors.
Graduates will be able to:
- Integrate their Christian faith with their practice of professional counselling.
- Demonstrate an attitude of compassion, grace and love.
- Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and practices of culturally appropriate assessment and treatment.
- To be able to live authentically with credibility as counsellors in their communities.
- Develop empathic listening skills and have a commitment to use and teach these skills in life and ministry.
- Engage in an ongoing process of deep inner-work and develop a personal network for supervision, growth and support.
- Become aware of their own limitations to diagnose the pathology of individuals, groups and families, and know when to refer people for needed help.
- Study and practice counselling theories and techniques
- Learn and apply knowledge of human growth, development, and attachment.
- Foster trauma-informed, resilience-focused environments.
- Have a commitment to sound ethical principles related to counselling ministry.
- Work with people of diverse ages, genders, ethnicities, beliefs, and socioeconomic backgrounds.