What is Supportive Counseling?
In churches, marriages and families, people often face real problems and difficulties. Often we want to help but do not know how. This training in Supportive Counseling will help you acquire a variety of counseling tools to support people through the many different situations they experience in their marriages, families and life situation.
Supportive Counselors give encouragement and help people work through their life problems in order to find suitable solutions for those problems. This is an outstanding tool for the church’s ministry to her own members and the wider community for leading the counselee into personal reflection, a new self-understanding and the discovery of new paths for resolving even long term, difficult problems.
Who is this for?
This training is designed for any church member or church worker who has a desire to become involved in counseling.
No previous formal training in counseling is required. At the same time, the class is also for those who have had
counseling experience and would like to further develop their ability.
The course is customized for the regional context with teaching and course materials fully translated into both English and Vietnamese.
What does the course involve?
The classes involve teaching and practical sessions. One of the unique aspects of the class is the opportunity to be counseled by a qualified counselor.
On successful completion of the course the ICL Certificate in Supportive Counseling will be awarded.