On this website you can watch all of the courses previously provided at Word of Life Counseling Training Institute in our residence program by selecting the name of that course.   You  can also access these same syllabuses and videos by the drop down menus above for each categories of courses:  Essentials, Group, Relationship, Advanced, and  practicums.   Whatever your use of navigation if you want course credit you must read the text books, write the required papers,  take the course test and pay a fee for our services in grading your papers and tests, and providing supervision for the practicum.  For more on taking courses for credit select that page for more information. 

Links to each course syllabus page with 10 videos of approximately 45 minutes each may be accessed by selecting the course name prior to the course description.  Although these courses may be watched by anyone free of charge on this website, they also may be  taken for credit by fulfilling the course requirements listed on the syllabus or as part of one of our low-cost certifications programs.  A certification should be obtained to verify you are a trained counselor when providing free counseling in a church.  You will most likely have to be ordained or licensed as a pastor or have a degree in a mental health field in order to obtain counseling liability insurance so that you are protected from malpractice litigation when charging fees for your counseling services. To learn more about these programs select the Certifications links above.  

Faith Therapy--Understanding salvation by faith and resolving deeply-rooted problems. This book and course provide a psychological understanding of the process of salvation by faith, winning the trial of your faith, how to increase faith, how to assess faith, and how to apply it to meet our deepest needs for self-worth, significance, security, and love. It includes models for conquering the common problems of low self-image, pride, selfish desires, strife, fear, spiritual oppression, lust, and for developing healthy attachment. It is easily taught and applied in churches because it is completely based on the Bible.

Effective Counseling and Life Coaching Skills--Learn the basic skills necessary to counsel and coach. This course teaches the essential communication skills, analysis methods, and ethics necessary to help people. It uses the Basis Attending Skills book and the AACC Ethical Code as its primary text books. Quite a number of in-class exercises and take home assignments are used to give you actual experience attending, asking powerful questions, reflecting feelings, confronting, connecting, analyzing problems, and resolving ethical dilemmas.

Transformation!--Biblical Models for counseling some of Life's most difficult and complex problems in the church. This book and course contains many new insights including a comprehensive plan for Christian counseling derived directly from the Bible, in-depth biblical answers for complex psychological problems based on the types and shadows interpretation of biblical stories, models and quick reference guides for counseling 20 of the most difficult problems in the church today. 

Revelations That Will Set You Free--An eight step roadmap for spiritual growth. This book and course material includes a summary of biblical growth models and Old and New Testament revelations of the character of God, a comprehensive explanation of each of the eight steps of spiritual growth found in 2 Peter Chapter 1, and a biblical character model demonstrating how each is to be achieved so that you and others can grow spiritually and psychologically toward maturity.

Principles for Life--Using biblical principles to resolve problems not directly addressed in the Bible. This book and course explains 44 of the most important principles in the Bible from a psychological perspective and provides an in-depth method for developing counseling plans using biblical principles for common psychological problems based on Proverbs Chapter 3. This material includes a discussion of 13 classical methods of biblical change, a new model for understanding the human heart called "The Train of Psychological Wholeness," and techniques for applying biblical principles in counseling. It includes counseling plans and methods for treating anxiety, panic attacks, obsessions, compulsions, sexual abuse, domestic violence, marital problems, and Borderline Personality Disorder.

Mentoring/Life Coaching--This course provides an overview of Bible-based coaching methods and techniques. Models for coaching are derived directly from the Bible. The text book Christian Coaching gives an overview of the field of coaching and Leadership Coaching discusses the methods and skills. 

Facilitating Support Groups-- Leading a small group can be very rewarding but it can also have its challenges. This course will provide for the group facilitator all that is needed to start and maintain a support group ministry in a church.

Addictions counseling-- This course provides the tools necessary for counseling addictions including the basic Christian models of addictions, the Christian 12 Steps, Freedom from addictions, assessment, and record keeping for drugs, alcohol, sex, relationships, and eating addictions.

Addictions  for Slovakia--This course provides the tools necessary for counseling addictions in Slovak including the basic Christian model of addictions Samson, the Christian 12 Steps, denial, shame, self-worth, significance, love and security, and dying to self--all the ingredients specified by the need model of the Bible.

Addictions for India-- This course provides the tools necessary for counseling addictions including the basic Christian model of addictions Samson, the Christian 12 Steps, denial, shame, self-worth, significance, love and security, and dying to self--all the ingredients specified by the need model of the Bible.

Addiction in Swahili-- This course provides the tools necessary for counseling addictions including the basic Christian model of addictions Samson, the Christian 12 Steps, denial, shame, self-worth, significance, love and security, and dying to self--all the ingredients specified by the need model of the Bible.

Addictions in Arabic--This course provides the tools necessary for counseling addiction in Arabic including the basic Christian model of addictions Samson, the Christian 12 Steps, denial, shame, self-worth, significance, love and security, and dying to self--all the ingredients specified by the need model of the Bible.  

Addictions for translation--This is the addiction program in English with room for dubbing another language of your choice.

Codependency--This is an in-depth course dealing with the overall topic of codependency. It covers the origin of the problem, description of codependency, types of codependency, differential diagnosis of codependency, and methods of treating each type.

Marriage and Family Counseling--This course is designed to help each student understand marriage and family issues from a Biblical and counseling perspective. You will learn the Biblical principles of marriage and receive an overview of how to deal with common, marital, marriage and family problems.

 Anger management, Domestic Violence and Abuse--This course presents a broad overview of anger management, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. It includes etiology, methods, and techniques for treatment

Practice Management--This course provides all the basic information necessary for beginning and managing a church-based counseling center including defining a mission statement, developing a business plan, determining the structure, administration, automation, advertising, technical and legal issues.  

Evangelism and Spiritual Issues--This course studies the practical application of spiritual principles in evangelism, walking according to the Spirit, and manifesting Christ in our lives as pastors, counselors, or life coaches.

New Covenant Counseling--In this course will develop an advanced form of Faith Therapy based on the covenants of God as they relate to the New Covenant concealed in the Old Covenant--the laws, the tabernacle, the sacrifices, the feasts, the priest’s garments--and the New Covenant revealed in Jesus Christ as they relate to and are applied in counseling.

Advanced Counseling Skills--This course provides additional topics on advanced counseling areas not covered in other courses but still essential to a broader counseling education.  Some of these classes include The Power of Right Believing, Myers-Briggs Temperament Theory, Suicide Prevention, and Cross-cultural counseling.

Psychopathology--This course discusses abnormal behavior as described by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM5) from a Christian perspective. It is by far the most difficult type of counseling and the most controversial because it many time includes both physical, psychological, experiential and spiritual aspects involved in the same problem. It is also the basis for mental health diagnosis.    

Individual Practicum--Provides actual supervised lay counseling experience. 30 contact hours are required for counseling certification and degrees and 15 contact hours for a life coaching certification.  Supervision is provided only by email.

Group Practicum--Provides actual supervised experience attending, facilitating, and leading a support group.  Supervision is provided only by email.

Theophostic Prayer Ministry-Is one of the most effective Christian methods for healing past hurts and trauma. It functions by identifying what the person originally thought about the past event (the lie) and asking the Holy Spirit to show them the truth. It has currently been republished for free by its author as Transformational Prayer and has been moved to a new website www.transformationprayer.org.