For the Therapist or Pastoral Counselor
Study under Dr. Allender at The Allender Center
Advanced Counseling Certificate
Receive training that will bolster your current therapeutic technique and offer insight into how your own life story impacts who you are as a therapist.
The Advanced Counseling Certificate provides an invaluable addendum to a master’s degree, utilizing Dr. Allender’s theory for working with abuse victims in individual, couple, family, and church community contexts. Dr. Allender’s trauma-focused narrative therapy trains therapists to continue their personal integrative and self-discovery process in order to become a more effective clinician. In this year long program, you will learn Dr. Allender’s counseling theory while concurrently engaging in the personal growth necessary to gain a greater understanding of how to care for your clients.
Lay Leader Certificate
The Lay Leader Certificate is designed to provide you with a fundamental understanding of the Allender methodology. It will identify the complex issues of personal story, and will explore how to more effectively engage these issues through a narrative framework within relationships.
You will learn directly from Dr. Allender in the classroom through teaching and by watching him conduct therapy. You will also receive personal mentoring from The Allender Center teaching staff in small group settings that are catered to your specific skill level and realm of work.
Abuse Helpers Training Series
The Abuse Helpers Training Series provides opportunities for professionals and lay counselors to receive unique and specialized teaching on working with issues of trauma and abuse. Each training is intended to offer an effective and holistic model of engaging the wide range of symptoms and relational issues that are consequences of harm.
