Christian Counselling
Develop the foundations of Christian counselling and learn how to support people with wisdom, care and confidence.
Your Formation Journey
A Guided Path into Christian Counselling
Across seven weeks, you will move from the foundations of Christian counselling into practical helping skills and more specialised areas of support. Each stage is designed to help you grow in confidence, care and wisdom as you learn to support people through real-life conversations and challenges.
Foundation — Weeks 1–3
Understand Christian counselling from a biblical worldview. Learn how communication, empathy, attending, respect and active listening help build safe and supportive relationships.
Wellbeing and Support — Weeks 4–5
Explore how to support social, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing. Learn how to recognise mental health concerns and understand when additional or specialised support may be needed.
Crisis, Grief and Integration — Weeks 6–7
Develop awareness of crisis support, safety concerns, grief and loss. Bring your learning together as you consider how to facilitate helping conversations with care, structure and Christian wisdom.
Formation that stays with you.
Across decades, roles, and places — people return to what they learned here.
- 16K+formed through AIFC and tov Academy programmes
- 49countries represented in our learning community
- 1M+counsellings sessions held by our alumni
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FAQs
The Christian Counselling Microcredential is a seven-week online course that introduces the foundations of Christian counselling and practical helping skills.
You will learn how to build supportive relationships, communicate with empathy, listen actively, explore wellbeing, recognise mental health and crisis concerns, and respond to people experiencing grief and loss.
The course is designed for pastoral workers, ministry leaders, chaplains, teachers, youth workers, community workers, parents and other people-helpers who want to support others with greater wisdom and confidence.
On completion, you will receive a digital credential that can be shared on LinkedIn, social media, your email signature or professional profile.
On completion, you will receive a digital credential that can be shared on LinkedIn, social media, your email signature or professional profile.
The Certificate is a great option for pastoral workers in churches, church small group leaders, school chaplains, Christian NFPs, youth workers, social workers, teachers, parents, and others who may not be able to undertake long term, accredited study.
The Certificate can be completed online over 8 weeks. We have included regular online support webinars to help you keep on track and connect with our student community. Each of the 8 modules is designed to be completed within 7 days, provided you can dedicate between 4 and 5 hours of study per week.
Payment for the Certificate is required at the time of enrolment.
Please contact our Financial Controller for more at info@tov.org.au
The Certificate is based on the content from 7 units in our accredited Diploma of Counselling qualification – but it is not accredited by the VET regulator. If you want an accredited course option, the Diploma of Counselling course is your best bet.
After completing this course, you will be better equipped to support people through everyday helping conversations with greater confidence, care and structure.
You will learn how to listen actively, build trust, ask thoughtful questions, recognise signs of distress, and respond with wisdom when someone is facing emotional, relational, spiritual or life challenges. You will also develop a clearer understanding of when a person may need referral to a qualified counsellor, GP, crisis service or other professional support.
This course does not qualify you to practise as a professional counsellor, but it will strengthen the way you care for others in ministry, church, school, community, family or workplace settings.
Yes! We understand that balancing study, work, family and other commitments can be tricky. For that reason, we have designed the course to be completed mostly online and in just 8 weeks ( provided participants can commit to between 4 or 5 hours of study each week).
To enrol online, please click here to select the Certificate of Christian Counselling from the list of courses, then follow the prompts to complete the application form.
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At TOV Academy, learning looks different. You donʼt just earn credentials—you grow through reflective practice, applied projects, and real-world experience.
AI-simulated learning provides safe, realistic scenarios to practice decisionmaking, problem-solving, and counselling before stepping into the real world.
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Ready to Begin?
You’ve been considering this for a while. Perhaps sensing a call to helping work, wondering if formal training is right for you, asking whether it’s too late or too soon. The next step is simple: a conversation. Book an advisory session to explore whether tov Academy is the right formation pathway for where you are—and where you’re becoming.
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