Holy Apostles College And Seminary Online
Graduate Certificate in Catholic Pastoral Counseling for Mental Health Professionals
Cromwell, USA
Graduate Certificate
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Sep 2026
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Key Summary
About: Holy Apostles College and Seminary, a Newman Guide Recommended College, offers a fully online Graduate Certificate in Catholic Pastoral Counseling for faithful, practicing Catholics who are licensed mental health professionals. The college provides affordable, flexible online and on-campus study supporting completion. The program answers a need: 34% of US Catholics prefer counselors familiar with their faith by training clinicians in Catholic-integrated pastoral counseling and faith-based clinical practice.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can expand private practice, provide parish counseling, join faith-based clinics, and deliver spiritual assessment and faith-integrated psychotherapy, improving access for Catholic clients and collaborating with clergy and community providers.
If you are a faithful, practicing Catholic who is also either a professional psychologist, clinical social worker, counselor, marriage and family therapist, or another state-licensed mental health professional, the Holy Apostles fully online Graduate Certificate in Catholic Pastoral Counseling can help you meet this growing, unmet need for Catholic-integrated mental health services.
Thirty-four percent of Catholics in the US would prefer to receive counseling from a therapist who was knowledgeable about their faith and knew how to employ faith-based techniques in their clinical work. That’s almost 25 million potential consumers of mental health services whose needs are not being met by available community and church-based mental health resources.
