The heart of the CCT credential is three progressive intensives—each five days long—focused on cultivating the personal, spiritual, and clinical capacities necessary for Christ-centered therapy. Each intensive combines lecture, small group processing, experiential exercises, and hands-on practice of core interventions.
Level I Certification
Introduction to CCT: CCT Basics, Establishing a Safe Haven and Becoming Oneself in Christ
for Mental Health Professionals, Pastors, and other Christian Caregivers
Complete the CCT Intensive Application to Apply
COURSE INFORMATION
Dates: Thursday-Monday, September 4-8, 9 AM to 6 PM (EST) • Location: Louisville, KY or Online
Intensive Cost: $1200
Early Bird Discount – 20% off if you register before September 15th
Fellow Discount – 20% off • Current Student Discount – 50% off
Focus: Therapist formation and renewal, foundational CCT practices, establishing internal refuge, and developing secure attachment with Christ.
Attendees will:
- Personally engage in and experience the exercises and practices introduced throughout the training.
- Deepen their understanding of the therapeutic significance of the Father’s affirmation of the Son, recognize Jesus Christ as the climax of the Christian narrative, and explore how the relational nature of the Trinity makes Christian therapy both unique and possible.
- Practice embodied strategies that promote body awareness and meditative focus (e.g., muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing), while envisioning—and beginning to dwell in—a safe internal refuge. In this place, they grow accustomed to life within their Window of Tolerance, meet with Jesus, gain insight, and nurture their created and redeemed core self.
- Learn how to prioritize relational connection and lived experience in therapy, equipping counselees to address psychological distress linked to insecure attachment, chronic trauma, personal sin, and spiritual challenges.
- Become acquainted with the core therapeutic practices central to Christian Clinical Therapy (CCT), especially those that explicitly “bring Christ into the therapy process,” both individually and in group contexts:
- Therapeutic prayer (e.g., lament, confession, praise, examen)
- Lectio Divina (therapeutic engagement with Scripture)
- Christian meditation, encountering God through Christ using biblical resources
- Story-work, imagery-work, and chair-work involving Jesus
- Begin developing their own model of Christ-centered therapy, integrating what they’ve learned into a coherent, spiritually grounded framework.
Weekly Schedule
Day 1 – Worldviews in Conflict, God and the Two Kinds of Grace, Christian Inwardness, and Establishing a Safe Haven/Refuge with Christ
Day 2 – Working with Body & Soul, Relationships, and the Emotions
Day 3 – Therapeutic Prayer, Lectio Divina, and Jesus
Day 4 – Imagery-Work and Chair-Work with Jesus
Day 5 – Becoming Oneself in Christ
While this program is designed for experienced licensed mental health professionals, non-licensed individuals with comparable graduate education or relevant experience in counseling or related fields are welcome to apply by emailing us.