Grief Counseling
Help people cope with the passing of loved ones and with challenges that arise from major life changes.
Christian Counseling
Explore the Christian approach to counseling and learn more about how to become a Christian Counselor.
Biblical Counseling
Learn to address the issues in the lives of individuals, couples and families through Biblical Counseling.
Choose Your Path...
There are several educational paths a person may take to become a Pastoral Counselor. In addition to having experience and training in the ministry, a pastoral counselor may have an educational background in religion, theology, christian counseling or the behavioral sciences. Explore the various degree programs that will prepare you for a career in pastoral counseling:
Careers in Pastoral Counseling
Pastoral Counselors serve clients in a variety of counseling settings, and establish ministries in places where clinical counselors seldom operate. Churches, prisons, industrial workplaces, corporate offices, hospitals, agencies of public safety, and even military combat zones are settings where pastoral counseling take place. Explore the many career options available to professionals entering the field of Pastoral Counseling:
+Industrial Chaplain
Industrial Chaplaincy is a carefully structured interdenominational ministry established within the boundaries of a business or industry, that helps people with work-life issues along with individual and family needs.
Additional Resources:
How to Become an Industrial Chaplain
National Institute of Business and Industrial Chaplains
Industrial and Commercial Ministrie+Healthcare Chaplain
Healthcare Chaplains serve those who are ill and in distress, along with family members and other caregivers, as the spiritual care specialists on a health care team. Healthcare Chaplains are specially trained to integrate spiritual and mental care with a knowledge of illness and loss.
Additional Resources:
How to Become a Healthcare Chaplain
International Fellowship of Chaplains
American Chaplains Association
American Association of Pastoral Counselors+Police Chaplain
Police Chaplains are specially trained care professionals who respond to law enforcement personnel as well as members of the community in times of loss, crisis, and depression. Police Chaplains also visit with injured or sick members of the department and offer prayers at special occasions.
Additional Resources:
How to Become a Police Chaplain
American Police Chaplains Association
International Police and Fire Chaplains Association
+Prison Chaplain
Prison Chaplains provide spiritual welfare and religious guidance to inmates and correctional employees within jails and prisons. Their duties involve administering bible studies, assisting inmates with alcohol and drug treatment, and counseling inmates in an effort to promote spiritual growth.
Additional Resources:
How to Become a Prison Chaplain
American Correctional Chaplains Association
International Prison Chaplains Association+Military Chaplain
Chaplains serving in the U.S. Armed Forces have the responsibility of overseeing the morale and religious well-being of armed service personnel, including soldiers, families and civilians. Their ministries include counseling sessions, workshops, religious education, and the officiating of ceremonies such as funerals, military functions and memorials.
Additional Resources:
How to Become a Military Chaplain
U.S. Army Chaplain Corps
U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps
U.S. Air Force Chaplain Corps
What's New
Opportunities and Frustrations of Working as an Industrial Chaplain
