Contemporary Issues in Counselling

For Entrance into the Contemporary Issues in Counselling program

Core course requirements for entrance into the Contemporary Issues in Counselling program are listed in the Academic Calendar. Acceptance into this post graduate certificate requires an MA in Counselling or a related field (MSW, M.Div. (pastoral counselling track), etc. Although a recognized undergraduate degree is preferred, admission as a mature student without an undergraduate degree will be considered. In such instances, previous post-secondary education, employment and/or ministry experience may be taken into account.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please look to the Academic Calendar for full information and course lists. If there are discrepancies between the information listed here and in the Academic Calendar, the Academic Calendar is definitive.

Select any six (6) of the following courses:

• Attachment Theory: Clinical considerations when working with adults
• Clinical and Neuroscientific Mood Disorders, Anxiety and Trauma
• Chronic Pain & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Therapeutic Considerations
• On Well-Being: Psychology, Science and Theology
• Aboriginal Issues: Theory and Psychotherapy
• Contemporary Issues in Counselling course elective
• Theory & Practice of Clinical Supervision
• Addictions and Codependancy
• Psychology of Emotion
• Group Psychotherapy: Theory & Practice
• Introduction to Child & Adolescent Psychology
• Neuroscience & Psychotherapy

Glenys Wirch, CPGC, D.Min. (Program Coordinator)
Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology

Laura Vander Velden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Counselling Psychology

Graduates will have enhanced education training to continue in their professional therapist roles or build careers in counselling therapy, crisis intervention, community mental health, para-church counselling, and church ministries.