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# Multiply the impact of your experience
Are you a Pastor, Counsellor or Chaplain with at least 5 years experience?
##### With a Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision, you can supervise and equip other leaders to their full potential.
# Demand is growing.
With the Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse recommending pastors, and those in pastoral and ministry roles be supervised by an independent professional with a recognised professional supervision qualification, the demand for qualified professional supervisors in every sector is rapidly increasing.
Get equipped to help others with a *Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision.*
90 %
Undergraduate Satisfaction in Entire Education Experience1
100 %
Flexible Online
\+ Campus Modes
94.4 %
Postgraduate Satisfaction in
Teaching Quality2
###### **AC's Graduate Certificate of Professional Supervision is proudly accredited with** the Australasian Association of Supervision (AAOS) and Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
# Graduate Certificate of Professional Supervision
Professional supervision facilitates an ongoing conversation between a person’s soul (motivation), role (responsibilities) and context (enabling and limiting factors of practice). It attends to systemic wellbeing: the wellbeing of the practitioner; the wellbeing of the supervisee and the wellbeing of the organisation within which the work is set.
| | 18 Months Part-time Available |
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| | Online |
| | March and August Intakes |
# Graduate Diploma of Counselling
The Graduate Diploma of Counselling will teach you the technical and theoretical aspects of professional counselling, integrated with a Christian worldview. This course has an emphasis on vocational readiness and will teach you to apply counselling skills with integrity and professionalism. The units from this course can be used for credit towards the Masters-level counselling degree.
| | 1 Year Full-time, Part-time Available |
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| | Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Online |
| | March, August, November Intakes |
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# Master of Counselling
The Master of Counselling will teach you the technical and theoretical aspects of professional counselling, integrated with a Christian worldview. This course has an emphasis on vocational readiness and will teach you to apply counselling skills with integrity and professionalism. The units from this course can be used for credit towards the Masters-level counselling degree.
| | 2 Years Full-time, Part-time Available |
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| | Sydney, Hobart, Online |
| | March, August, November Intakes |
## Start your journey.
Contact us to enquire about fees, FEE-HELP, scholarships and other courses available.
[Enquire today](https://study.ac.edu.au/?hsLang=en#form)
#### The course is overseen by AC's head of school for Health and Human Sciences, [Associate Professor Rebecca Loundar,](https://www.ac.edu.au/faculty-and-staff/rebecca-loundar/)and Dr Michael Paterson, Director of the Institute of Pastoral Supervision & Reflective Practice (UK).
###### Dr Rebecca Loundar
Rebecca is the Head of School for Health and Human Sciences and a Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a health practitioner for over 25 years, with 15 years as a professional supervisor. Rebecca has worked with individuals and groups across clinical, community and not-for-profit settings, in education and corporate environments. She is an active member on government and community committees, a researcher and provider of clinical consultation, supervision and training to psychologists, counsellors and those in pastoral settings. Her research interests include psychosocial & spiritual wellbeing and issues such domestic and family violence.
###### Dr Michael Paterson
Michael is a psychotherapist, supervisor and supervisor-trainer based in Fife, Scotland. He runs professional training in individual and in group supervision across the English speaking world.. Michael holds honorary lectureships at the University of Glasgow and Alphacrucis University College, Sydney.
His doctoral thesis examined the multiple identities of practitioners operating on the edges of professional praxis using performance ethnography and other creative forms of reflection on practice.
Study Modes
## Flexible Study
We understand study needs to fit around your life, so we offer 3 different study modes - online, on campus, or a combination of both. \*
Weekly classes are available in our Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane campuses, with workshops, intensives and work placements available in locations around Australia. You can study purely online, or combine online with some face-to-face learning.
*Enquire to find more about study modes by course*
## Campus
## Online
### Campus \+ Online
#### Student Stories
> I am passionate about Pastors and Leaders flourishing in their work and having a space to explore and unpack how their work is impacting them and others which is why I decided to enrol for the Graduate Certificate of Supervision. The course has helped me to see how I can pastorally care for Pastors and Leaders so they can thrive in their work and lives.
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> Donna Kipps
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> ACC Pastor
> I have been pastoring for over 20 years and am passionate about the deliberate care for pastors and leaders. This passion led me to study the Graduate Certificate of Professional Supervision with AC. I love that this formal learning will better equip me to pastorally care for church leaders and pastors in the future.
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> Michelle Fredericks
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> ACC Pastor
#### Start your Journey.
1\. 2022 Student Experience Survey result. Note: 89.9% rounded to nearest 1%. QILT.edu.au.
2\. 2022 Student Experience Survey. QILT.edu.au.
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