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Advanced Training for Counseling Ministry

Help Identify Belief Systems that Hinder Individuals from their True Identity

The ATCM school is for those looking to deepen their knowledge of biblical counseling models. This intermediate course offers advanced, biblically-based holistic care. It focuses on integrating spirit, soul, and body for personal growth and healing. The program emphasizes recognizing and addressing beliefs and feelings that hinder a healthy Christian identity.

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PHASE ONE
 
 Take part in specific counselling training sessions, small groups, one on ones and practice your counseling skills. At the end of this phase the students will develop their personal integrated counseling approach. This school will challenge you in how you see God, yourself and others and equip you with tools and insights of how to develop the full potential of what God has put in each one of us. You will be challenged to develop and practice your personal integrated counseling approach.
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PHASE TWO
 
The subsequent 12 week field assignment. It is designed to offer a practical experience where the students will further develop the skills learned in the lecture phase. It will focus on teaching individuals and groups the biblical basis for maturity, and on training others in the use of helping skills. There also may be a focus on counseling in a clinical setting and on developing models for counseling teams whose skills will enable them to be involved among unreached people groups of the world. Target groups for this field assignment includes families with relationship breakdowns, people with personal identity issues, victims of sexual brokenness, and people struggling with stress and burnout.
 
*The field assignment required for all students working toward a degree in the College of Whole Person Care & Development..

Outreach Phase/Field Internship

Right after lecture is completed, you'll have the opportunity to use the new skills you've learned (CNH 315). This can be either a team outreach or an internship under supervision. Outreach will need to include most of the following: team teaching in churches, local ministries or rehabilitation programs. In this phase, emphasis is placed on teaching individuals and groups the biblical basis for maturity, and on training others in the use of helping skills. There also may be a focus on counseling in a clinical setting and on developing models for counseling teams whose skills will enable them to be involved among unreached people groups of the world. 

*The outreach is typically $2500 plus airfare.

Advanced Training for Counselling Ministry

UPCOMING Training

ATCM Arrival 2025
September 21st

Tentative Outreach Dates
December 14th 2025 - March 8th 2026

Training phase is 12 weeks, followed by 12 weeks of outreach. 

The cost of lecture phase is $3495. which includes all lodging, meals, and school materials. Outreach will be an additional cost.

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Discipleship Training School and outreach; Foundations for Counseling Ministry and Outreach (CNH 211 & 212)

 

$500 *refundable deposit due at least 1 month before the school start date.

Week 5 at least 50% paid off.

Week 10 100% of school paid off.

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You will be staying in dorm style housing on our lovely rural campus of 35 acres. We’re only 15 minutes from downtown Salem and 1 hour from Portland, the coast, and the Cascade mountain range.

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