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This course offers students the essential knowledge and skills to develop emotional wellness, including identifying, taking ownership and expressing feelings; understanding and articulating one’s personal emotional challenges, including unresolved issues from early life; identifying needs; and understanding the nature of emotions.  Participants will learn techniques for self-awareness and emotional regulation.

This course will teach participants how to apply four different therapy approaches to counselling and coaching settings to enhance mental wellness. Using an experiential approach, students will be employ strategies from each of these therapies to develop their own mental wellness, while cultivating skills to support others. The four therapies that will be explored include Cognitive Behavioural, Dialectical Behaviour, Narrative Therapy and Non-Violent Communication.

This course provides students with the opportunity to study the cultivation of spiritual wellbeing by engaging with diverse spiritual perspectives and practices. Students will examine and articulate their own beliefs and world-views, while developing the ability to understand and honour the world-views of others. This course is an experiential exploration of spiritual wellness that equips students with the essential knowledge and skills to support the spiritual growth and development of others.

This course will teach participants how to apply four different therapy approaches to counselling and coaching settings to enhance mental wellness. Using an experiential approach, students will be employ strategies from each of these therapies to develop their own mental wellness, while cultivating skills to support others. The four therapies that will be explored include Cognitive Behavioural, Dialectical Behaviour, Narrative Therapy and Non-Violent Communication.

Participants learn the fundamentals of development related to children and youth. The course focuses on issues that impact healthy development and which may result in the onset of problematic behaviour in childhood and adolescence. The importance of developing rapport, mutual trust and respect when working with young clients is highlighted throughout the course.  

Family issues, peer culture, puberty, respect and responsibility, drug and alcohol issues, high-risk behaviour and aggression are considered. Therapeutic approaches for working with young people are addressed, and assessment and screening tools and their application will be examined.  Students will be provided with the tools necessary to assist youth to navigate the challenging path leading to adulthood and therefore assist them to become healthy, productive and contributing participants in the community.

This course provides students with the skills necessary to identify the addictive process and to counsel clients in various stages of the process of change. The many forms of addictions will be examined, and the skills needed to assist clients will be demonstrated and practiced. The focus of the course is the development of a thorough understanding of the Stages of Change Model.  The course will provide insight into the use and mis-use of psychoactive drugs in the human body including information on neurobiology and pharmacology. Students are asked to identify their own habits/addictions and asked to examine what effects they may have on their lives, keeping a journal of their personal experience of withdrawal. This course provides theory and practice in methods of counselling in the process of recovery and rehabilitation. Self-regulation Theory, reduction of enabling behaviour, and the appropriate/responsible use of intervention strategies will be examined.

This course focuses on the effects of sexual abuse and other psychological traumas on individuals, families and communities. Participants will understand the nature of post-traumatic stress and assist clients to begin their recovery. Sexual abuse/assault, victimization of vulnerable populations including children exploited in residential schools and other forms of abuse resulting in the traumatization of victims will be examined, and specific skills including screening and assessment and referral procedures will be provided for working with survivors and their families.

This course builds on the theory taught during the Life Skills Counselling program.  It provides the students with the opportunity for one on one counselling sessions while under supervision from their instructors and staff members at Rhodes Wellness College.

Participants learn the fundamentals of development related to children and youth. The course focuses on issues that impact healthy development and which may result in the onset of problematic behaviour in childhood and adolescence. The importance of developing rapport, mutual trust and respect when working with young clients is highlighted throughout the course.  

Family issues, peer culture, puberty, respect and responsibility, drug and alcohol issues, high-risk behaviour and aggression are considered. Therapeutic approaches for working with young people are addressed, and assessment and screening tools and their application will be examined.  Students will be provided with the tools necessary to assist youth to navigate the challenging path leading to adulthood and therefore assist them to become healthy, productive and contributing participants in the community.

This course provides students with knowledge related to assisting people in making decisions about their choice of employment. Students will explore some of the barriers to employment that the individual may encounter. Students will come to an understanding of some effective skills and strategies, as an outgrowth of the Egan model.

This course builds on the theory taught during the Life Skills Counselling program.  It provides the students with the opportunity for one on one counselling sessions while under supervision from their instructors and staff members at Rhodes Wellness College.

This course provides students with the skills necessary to identify the addictive process and to counsel clients in various stages of the process of change. The many forms of addictions will be examined, and the skills needed to assist clients will be demonstrated and practised. The focus of the course is the development of a thorough understanding of the Stages of Change Model.  The course will provide insight into the use and mis-use of psychoactive drugs in the human body including information on neuro-biology and pharmacology. Students are asked to identify their own habits/addictions and asked to examine what effects they may have on their lives, keeping a journal of their personal experience of withdrawal. This course provides theory and practice in methods of counselling in the process of recovery and rehabilitation.  Self-regulation Theory, reduction of enabling behaviour, and the appropriate/responsible use of intervention strategies will be examined.

Participants learn the fundamentals of development related to children and youth. The course focuses on issues that impact healthy development and which may result in the onset of problematic behaviour in childhood and adolescence. The importance of developing rapport, mutual trust and respect when working with young clients is highlighted throughout the course.  

Family issues, peer culture, puberty, respect and responsibility, drug and alcohol issues, high-risk behavior and aggression are considered. Therapeutic approaches for working with young people are addressed, and assessment and screening tools and their application will be examined.  Students will be provided with the tools necessary to assist youth to navigate the challenging path leading to adulthood and therefore assist them to become healthy, productive and contributing participants in the community.

This introductory course provides students with an overview of Expressive Arts Therapy.   Essential components of Expressive Arts Therapy will be described, with an emphasis on acquiring practical tools for its application.  The focus of this course is highly experiential, with opportunities to practice putting techniques into practice.  Students will explore a variety art forms including drawing, collage, dance, poetry, and music.   During this course, students will explore themes such as: self-compassion, grief, loss, connection, resilience, and life transitions.

The program is designed to provide students with an extended skill set for effective small group facilitation. The program focuses on facilitator confidence, managing group dynamics, group therapy, and challenges facilitators are likely to encounter. Students will achieve competency in running groups as a basic or developmental facilitator.

Using principles of life-span development, this course addresses predictable developmental issues that individuals face on their life journey. We will examine the inter-connectedness of physical, emotional, environmental, cognitive, and social aspects of human development, and focus on applying understanding of the normative range of human development to counselling practice.

Learners will be engaged in the process of understanding various approaches to relationship counselling. A diversity of relationship types and structures will be examined. We will look at how problems presented in relationships have to do not only with current conflicts, but relate to unresolved issues from early relationships. Emphasis will be on learning to engage clients facing a variety of relationship concerns in effective, ethical and culturally appropriate therapy. Exploration of the role of attachment in relationship therapy will be addressed.