counseling course overview

Upside Community Services offers certified training courses that equip you with the skills and experience to support individuals facing emotional and mental health challenges. Rooted in a Christian worldview, our training provides an integrated, compassionate and faith-informed approach, ensuring you feel supported as you grow in your ability to help others. Whether you’re exploring counseling as a potential calling or ready for an in-depth training journey, we have a program designed for you.

Our courses are certified by the Council for Pastoral and Spiritual Counsellors or CPSC.

Discover Your Potential

The Foundational Counselling Course is perfect for those who want to explore what it’s like to be a counselor before committing to further training. This course provides an introduction to counseling principles, helping attendees determine if they have a calling for this field.

some topics covered in the course

• Understanding empathy, active listening, and effective communication
• Ethical considerations and boundaries in counseling
• Interactive exercises and role-playing scenarios
• Aspects of Christian belief in counselling.
• Differences between ‘counselling’ and ‘ministry’.
• Understanding the pain of rejection.
• Secular and Christian approaches to counselling.
• Counselling practice.
• Self – awareness.
• A certificate of completion upon finishing the course