Columbia International University

MA - Pastoral Counseling & Spiritual Formation

Description

The Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Formation (MAPCSF) program is designed to train men and women to come alongside Christians and non-Christians and to help them understand their lives and issues from God's perspective. Using the redemptive and healing truths of Scripture along with the relational aspects of biblical community, the Pastoral Counselor will help people to grow into spiritual and emotional maturity through biblical understanding, inner healing, relational authenticity, and spiritual formation. The Pastoral Counselor is trained not only to address the personal "sticking" points in a person's emotional and spiritual development but also to identify the stages of spiritual development in a church or institution and to lead people to the next stage of spiritual and emotional maturity. Pastoral Counselors will be trained to lead in Spiritual Formation, Marriage, Small Group, Recovery, Lay Counseling, Pastoral Counseling, Mercy and Cross Cultural ministries. The graduate of this program will be prepared for certification with the AAPC.

Resident Faculty

Allan McKechnie (Psy.D. Candidate, Forest Institute of Professional Psychology) Allan McKechnie is director of the master of arts program in counseling in the Graduate School of Columbia International University. The program's goal is to train students in theology, psychology and counseling skills for the purpose of professional coun... more

Rhonda Pruitt (Ph.D., Bethany Theological Seminary) Dr. Rhonda Pruitt brings a cross-cultural psychology flavor to the counseling program at Columbia International University. She has served as a missionary for 20 years in Asia and Europe. Out of her experience flows a passion for missions and the care of ... more

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