10 Counseling Diploma Programs in Canada

Build a meaningful career from your passion as a special care counsellor providing professional and emotional support. The DCS in Special Care Counselling prepares you for appropriate interventions and teaches you to work with a range of professionals through hands-on workshops and professional internships.

Learn to build relationships that focus on promoting the resiliency and well-being of children, youth and families in Lakeland’s Diploma in Child and Youth Care Counsellor. Our program prepares you to support children and youth, as well as their families.

Stenberg’s Counseling Therapist Diploma program provides students with the stepping stones to help others overcome challenges, achieve goals and better lives. Students learn to approach and resolve real-life situations, proper self-care, ethical decision making, strengthen relationships and other applicable soft skills.

When being a good listener isn’t enough. Learn the skills and become a professional counselor. KCPC’s specially designed one-year Diploma of Applied Psychology and Counseling consists of 16 courses, each course 3 weeks in length. The accelerated curriculum provides practical knowledge and skill training, applicable to all types of counseling settings. Graduates are prepared for a wide range of career opportunities in private practice and mental health agencies.

Learn how to assist immigration consultants and lawyers with documents, file management, and client communications. Start your career as an Immigration Case Manager in just 9 months. An Immigration Case Manager assists lawyers and licensed consultants who help people immigrate to Canada.

The Diploma in Wellness Counselling program provides instruction and activities designed to teach you how to facilitate wellness in all areas of life – physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Our wellness courses teach you how to nurture relationships, discover creativity and attain vibrant health. The Wellness coaching training includes bodywork such as Yoga, Spiritual Practice, and Core Conditioning. We explore a variety of therapeutic techniques in your wellness training including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, and the use of Therapeutic Re-enactments to improve Mental and Emotional health.

The Developmental Service Worker program is a two-year Ontario college diploma for students interested in having a direct impact on the lives of people with developmental disabilities. You will become a highly skilled practitioner able to deliver person-directed support through courses that promote mental and physical health, develop interpersonal and interprofessional skills and foster independence and positive behaviour supports. New graduates are employed as direct supports professionals or educational assistants.

The Diploma in Diversity and Families aims to provide students with a background in how ethnicity, immigration status, first language, socioeconomic status, and more impact contemporary Canadian families' lives and the individuals within them.

Orca Institute caters to post-secondary students seeking to expand their academic pursuits. We offer a comprehensive, mostly self-paced Counselling Skills Diploma program: It can be started at any time during the year. Approved by the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists (ACCT) up to the Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) level. Duration of 8 months and 770 hours, completed online at a personal pace. The program fee is CAD$8700.00, with interest-free payment plans. The additional cost for books is CAD$900.00. The institute has transitioned to Moodle, a trusted learning platform used by top institutions worldwide.

The Chemical Addictions Worker program provides core skills required for First Nations Wellness Addictions Workers and includes Aboriginal specific content. This program will assist individuals who currently are Alcohol and Drug Counsellors and/or Addictions Workers, who may need to obtain professional development to meet job requirements. In addition, this program is open to individuals who wish to seek employment in the addictions field.