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To Become a Professional Counsellor, Follow These Steps:
1. Read this website as thoroughly as possible. 2. Enroll in and complete the Free Counseling Course (bottom of page). 3. Enroll in and complete the Professional Counsellor Training Course described here. 4. Learn by Doing: Become an Intern member of the College and begin participating in your own counseling as a client with your supervisor while also seeing clients under the guidelines and supervision of a senior member of the College.
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Professional Counselor Training Course for the
Certificate of Professional Counseling
Start Date Selected by Applicant Qualifying Examination fee included in course tuition: $495
The College of Mental Health Counseling provides opportunities for the general public to receive online training to provide professional counseling services in their community as members of the College. The student may also achieve proficiency in counseling within subject area specializations.
Find out how you canbecome a counsellor after having completed the Professional Counsellor Training Course, what you do next, and how you will be supervised during the year after taking the course. Professional Counselor Training Course
Prerequisites: 1) completion of the prerequisite Free Counseling Course: Personal History (see bottom of page), 2) sincere desire to increase self-awareness, 3) reading comprehension and writing composition skills demonstrated by understanding the process for enrollment and completion of the pre-requisite course. The course is designed for individuals who may have been away from the traditional classroom for several years.
Objectives: 1. To acquire knowledge and skills in the process of counseling individuals and couples. 2. To increase the student’s self-awareness of issues and factors contributing to his or her current life and functioning.
Topics: 1. Completing and understanding the Clinical Assessment; steps forsuicide prevention (included in the Free Counseling Course described below). 2. Skills to begin, deepen, and close the counseling session and the over-all counseling process. 3. Skills to heal grief resulting from different types of loss: death of a loved one, breakup of a relationship, divorce, loss of health, bankruptcy, and others. 4. Skills to help others adopt healthy communication, reduce hostility, solve problems, resolve conflicts, listen with empathy, and speak assertively. 5. Approaches to help couples resolve specific issues: infidelity, household duties, addiction, and others.
Assignments: 1. Design and create a minimum of 100-120 short and long-answer review questions covering the scope and depth of the text and provide responses with page numbers from the text where the answers are found. 2. Complete the Clinical Assessment Questionnaire with yourself as the client (covered in the Free Counseling Course). 3. Complete the Clinical Assessment Questionnaire with a volunteer client (covered in the Free Counseling Course). 4. Qualfying Examination - Open-book with text, all materials, and full instructor support available, the exam is designed to be a comprehensive learning experience. Time for completion: Estimating 2 hours per week day, allow approximately 4 to 6 weeks with time extension granted on request.
The Certificate of Professional Counseling is awarded upon completion of the above requirements.
To register, please complete and send the Registration Form below, or request more information at collegemhc@gmail.com
Professional Counselor Training Course Registration Form (online distance learning)
To enrol in the College course, please complete and send the Course Registration Form below. On receiving your registration, the College will send the course text and assignments on the date you specify. Please contact the College with any questions prior to or during the course. The course should be completed within a six week period. Extensions are granted on request simply by contacting the College and giving a reason for the extension and date you will submit your assignments. Your information and email will be kept strictly confidential and used only within the College. All fields are required.
Secure online tuition payment ($495) using paypal: (Your cheque/check or paypal payment will be to "Counsellor Holdings Inc.")
Thank you very much. We will mail the course text within 7-10 days, followed by the materials and assignments. We look forward to assisting you to acquire professional counselling skills.
This free course is a prerequisite to the full Professional Counselor Training Course described above. All assignments are maintained with professional confidentiality. (Enroll Now)
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To enroll in the FREE COUNSELING COURSE: PERSONAL HISTORY, please request the course (on the right) with your email. (This free course will also partially satisfy requirements for the full PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR TRAINING COURSE described above). All materials and assignments will be sent free as attached PDF files. The required text must be ordered with your registration on the right.
In this free counseling course you will learn: 1. The meaning of experiences in your own personal life and those of your volunteer client. 2. How to identify the often hidden causes of problems in someone's life. 3. The three purposes of taking a personal history. 4. The process of taking the history and how to work with issues that arise during the session. 5. How to know if someone is suicidal and how to prevent suicide.
You will be given the assignment to submit your own history as well as the history of a volunteer client. You will find this course to be a healing and insightful experience for yourself and for your volunteer client.
To receive the Certificate of Counseling in Personal History on completion of the Free Counseling Course, please begin by ordering the text using the link here:
IMPORTANT When you have ordered the required course text, you will receive an email receipt in your "inbox." To complete your registration for the Free Counseling Course, please forward your receipt to collegemhc@gmail.com
The text is shipped worldwide.
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The College training manual Effective Counseling Skills: the practical wording of therapeutic statements and processes is available through major bookstores and by interlibrary loan from some institutions where the volume is located: McMaster University, University of Manitoba, Vancouver Public Library (Canada), San Diego Public Library, Dixie State College of Utah, University of Louisville, University of Southern California, Texas A&M University, University of Missouri--Columbia, University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System, Columbia University Libraries, University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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is available through major bookstores and by interlibrary loan from some institutions where the volume is located: McMaster University, University of Manitoba, Vancouver Public Library (Canada), San Diego Public Library, Dixie State College of Utah, University of Louisville, University of Southern California, Texas A&M University, University of Missouri--Columbia, University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System, Columbia University Libraries, University of Massachusetts at Boston.