What is the Certified Domestic Violence Counselor?

The Certified Domestic Violence Counselor is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Soft Skills & Personal Dev..

How long does this certification take?

The programme is 10 Weeks and can be completed at your own pace through our self-paced online option, or alongside live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are internationally recognised and carry CPD credits, making them valuable for career advancement worldwide.

What level is this certification?

This is a Intermediate Level certification, suitable for professionals with relevant experience or background in the field.

You can enrol by emailing info@certifications.ac, contacting us via WhatsApp at +254 722 223 084, or filling the enrolment form below.

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Executive Summary

Certified Domestic Violence Counselor

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Domestic Violence Counselor (CDVC) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing.

This 10 Weeks programme is structured around recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CDVC holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification

Certified Domestic Violence Counselor

Acronym

CDVC

Who Should Enrol?

Counsellors and Therapists
Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners
Social and Community Workers
Helping-Profession Practitioners

Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

All study materials and study guide
Access to GLI online learning portal
Online examination and assessment
Digital certificate and digital badge
Physical certificate (shipped to you)
CPD credits for professional bodies
GLI alumni network membership
Facilitator and tutor support
Resource downloads and reference library
Automatic enrolment confirmation

Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement

Accelerate your career towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles

Professional Recognition

Credential aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards

Leadership Capability

Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex counselling functions

Organisational Impact

Design and implement counselling systems that drive performance and measurable results

Compliance Readiness

Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to counselling

Global Employability

Qualify for counselling roles across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice worldwide

Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Counselling Theories, Models and Approaches

✦Assessment, Case Formulation and Treatment Planning

✦Therapeutic Skills, Alliance and Communication

✦Specialised Populations and Presenting Concerns

✦Coaching, Wellbeing and Positive Psychology

✦Professional Ethics and Governance

Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

Foundations and Professional Context of Certified Domestic Violence Counselor

Certified Domestic Violence Counselor: industry context, trends and professional standards
The helping relationship and its purpose
History and scope of counselling and coaching
Professional roles, boundaries and settings
Ethical principles and codes of practice
The self of the practitioner
Cultural competence and diversity
Confidentiality, consent and safeguarding
The evidence base for talking therapies
Wellbeing and the biopsychosocial model
Career pathways and professional development

Ethics, Supervision and Safety

Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
The boundary between coaching and therapy
The working alliance and coaching presence
Group facilitation and group process
Record keeping, notes and professional documentation
Remote and telephone practice
Endings, relapse and maintaining change
Practitioner wellbeing and vicarious trauma
Outcome monitoring in therapeutic work
Referral, multi-agency work and the client pathway
Contracting and the three-way agreement
Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships

Outcomes and Review

Evaluating coaching outcomes
Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
Working with ambivalence and motivation
Team coaching and the team as client
Cultural context and coaching across difference
Building and running a coaching practice
Clinical assessment and shared formulation
Therapeutic modalities and choosing an approach
Risk assessment and safeguarding in practice
Trauma-informed delivery and its limits

Scope, Boundary and Referral

The boundary between coaching and therapy
Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
Contracting and the three-way agreement

The Therapeutic Alliance

The working alliance and coaching presence
Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching

Contracting and Confidentiality

Contracting and the three-way agreement
Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
The boundary between coaching and therapy

Listening, Reflection and Restraint

Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
The working alliance and coaching presence
Cultural context and coaching across difference

Records and Reporting

Risk registers and reporting
Preparing financial statements
Security metrics and reporting
Tax provisioning and reporting
Transfer pricing documentation
Dashboards, reporting and the metric that misleads
Proposal development and donor reporting
Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
Health records, data and confidentiality
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Interpreting financial statements
Integrated and sustainability reporting
Just culture and reporting
Professional reporting and documentation
Board and management reporting

Coaching Practice

Managing performance through coaching
Coaching challenging situations
Measuring coaching impact
Coaching and skill development
Mentorship, networks and the community of practice
Supervised and unsupervised learning
Coaching principles and ethics
The coaching relationship
Strengths-based coaching
Group and team coaching
Coaching for resilience and wellbeing
Building support networks and mentors
Coaching and reinforcement
Financial regulation and prudential supervision
Coaching leaders and managers

Therapeutic Practice

Reporting quality and governance
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Wellbeing and resilience coaching
Management accounts and dashboards
Employment relationship and the psychological contract
Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
Innovation culture, incentives and psychological safety
Wellbeing and personal-effectiveness learning
Workplace wellbeing strategy
Designing a marketing or sales strategy
Budget vs actual and variance
Cost and profitability analysis

Ethics and Safeguarding

Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Data, records and confidentiality tech
Ethics of technology in practice
Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Professional standards and ethics
Marketing and sales ethics
Forecasting and planning
Communicating financial results
Ethics and fair customer treatment
Anti-corruption and financial-crime ethics
Data ethics and customer privacy
Ethics and independence
Ethics in communications

Communication Skills

Communicating technical information to diverse audiences
Professional report writing and presentation
Communication and interpersonal skills
Closed-loop feedback systems
Influencing and presenting insights
Professional and persuasive communication
Crisis communications
Stakeholder communications
Communications strategy and planning
Internal communications
Corporate social responsibility communications
Managing sensitive communications
Presenting risk and recommendations
Data storytelling and communicating findings
The media and telecommunications landscape

Development and Learning

Developing talent and succession
Delegating for development
Managing resistance and capability building
Category management and strategy development
Supplier development and improvement
Agile delivery and iterative development
Building digital capability in an organisation
Real estate development and project appraisal
Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
Attachment and developmental theory
Lessons learned and development
Schedule development and optimisation
Team development and effectiveness
Your one-year professional development trajectory
Managing boundaries and dual relationships

Groups and Facilitation

Building high-performing project teams
Cross-functional collaboration with product and service
Team leadership in sales and marketing
Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
Team leadership in field and project settings
Peer support and consultation
Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
Leading service teams
Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
Team leadership in customer service
Team leadership in banking operations
Building high-performing sales teams
Managing technology teams and technical work
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice

Behaviour and Change

Variations, claims and delay: managing change on site
Change talk and readiness
Habit change and behaviour design
Change control and configuration
Organisational change management
Change and adoption in projects
Measuring change and project impact
Baseline setting and change control
Team leadership and motivation
Motivation and engagement
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Technology governance and change control
Foreign exchange and hedging
Engagement and motivation
Change management and adoption

Goals and Measurement

Quality and delivery metrics
Managing schedule and budget performance
Agile metrics and velocity
Setting objectives and marketing KPIs
Funnel, pipeline and conversion metrics
Customer and brand health metrics
Brand health and measurement
Dashboards and performance reporting
Client feedback and satisfaction
Capacity and performance management
Setting objectives, indicators and targets
Service quality and turnaround metrics
Credit risk measurement and mitigation
Sales performance and pipeline management
Social performance and outreach

Leadership Context

Implementation planning and risk management
Data-driven decision support and analytics
Quality management systems and audits
Omnichannel and channel management
Queue management and service flow
Workforce management and scheduling
Front-office and reception management
Relationship management and retention
Performance management in service
Handling escalations as a leader
Teller operations, cash handling and vault management
Stakeholder mapping and influencing
Knowledge management and capability building
Safety management systems overview (ISO 45001)
Safety culture and leadership

Culture and Inclusion

Nomination, succession and diversity
The business case for diversity and inclusion
Belonging, culture and employee resource groups
HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
Safety culture and climate
Team diversity and inclusion
Cross-cultural communication
Security culture and awareness
Designing and facilitating groups
Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
Brand strategy, identity and equity
Psychoeducation and workshops
Service culture and brand promise
Building a customer-centric culture
Building a service culture

Client Relationships

Procurement and contract management
Stakeholder engagement strategy
Building project relationships
Building strategic customer relationships
Negotiation with clients and partners
Designing an intervention or programme
Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
Managing difficult stakeholders
Stakeholder mapping in banking
Relationship management and cross-selling
Wealth, SME and corporate relationships
Stakeholder mapping and engagement
Stakeholders and users of financial information
Stakeholders, agency and accountability
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism

Risk and Compliance

Duty of care and risk management
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Managing risk and difficult cases
Risk assessment and safety planning
Professional case study and presentation
Project governance and assurance
Project governance frameworks
Compliance and regulatory projects
Leading project governance
Health, safety and compliance in delivery
Financial risk in projects
Real estate regulation, licensing and professional conduct
Grant compliance and restricted funding management
NGO governance, boards and registration
How insurance works: risk pooling and the value chain

Evidence and Research

Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
Goal setting and contracting
Treatment planning and review
Analytical techniques and bias
Data visualisation for finance
Decision support and insight
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Record-keeping and data protection
Evidence-based improvement
Evidence-based practice
Evidence-based practice and research literacy
Statistics and exploratory data analysis
Service analytics and dashboards
Text and interaction analytics
Data privacy and consent

Wellbeing and Resilience

Stress and psychosocial risk
Managing growth, risk and resilience
Operational risk and resilience
Stress testing and scenario analysis
Business continuity and resilience
Managing complexity and comorbidity
Stress testing credit portfolios
Stress testing and scenarios
Crisis, resilience and contingency planning
Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
Innovation and fintech collaboration

Workplace Context

Employee engagement models and drivers
Data protection and employee privacy
The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
Managing resistance and engagement
Communicating risk to the workforce
Worker engagement and empowerment
Community and tenant engagement
Workforce and shift management in retail
Strengths, flow and engagement
Building trust and engagement
Win-back and re-engagement
Workforce planning and scheduling
Employee experience and engagement
Customer and community engagement

Practice and Business

SME lending and value-chain finance
Microfinance and group lending
Workplace and organisational contexts
Impact, blended and concessional finance
Supply market analysis
Short-term funding and money markets
Financial risk types and management
Market risk and VaR
Business process mapping
The role of finance in organisations and value creation
Learning strategy and business alignment
Electric and hybrid vehicles: what changes for the market
Vehicle financing, insurance and total cost of ownership conversations
Automotive marketing and lead generation
The retail landscape: formats, channels and the informal market

Digital Delivery

Digital and self-service transformation
Self-service and digital support
Customer service technology stack
Technology selection and integration
Emerging service technologies
Digital, mobile and internet banking
Digital disruption and the future of banking
Digital transformation in banking
Branch-to-digital migration
Digital banking platforms and APIs
Payment technology and switches
Vendor selection and managing technology suppliers
Digital user experience and accessibility
Digital ethics and algorithmic accountability
Bancassurance and digital insurance models

Programme Delivery

Project management maturity assessment
Driving measurable delivery improvement
Developing the project business case
Project budgeting and financial control
Realising and measuring project value
Capstone scoping: a real project or programme
Designing the project plan and schedule
Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
Project initiation and chartering
Integrated project planning
Project management plan development
Cost reduction and efficiency programmes
Compliance frameworks and programmes
Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
Onboarding and induction programme design

Community and Family Context

Sustainability and social impact in projects
Corporate social responsibility and community impact
Social media customer care
Community and lifelong learning
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Corporate responsibility and community
Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
Risk, protective and social factors
Goal setting and action planning
Accountability and follow-through

Health Context

Healthy work design
Absence and health management
Forecasting and pipeline health
Measuring coaching outcomes
Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Measuring innovation performance
Leadership versus management and when each is needed
Situational and adaptive leadership
Values, purpose and authentic leadership
Meaning, purpose and values

Standards and Quality

Roles, standards and professional conduct
Governance of service standards
Quality monitoring and coaching
Continuous improvement in service
Driving measurable service improvement
Designing a service or experience improvement
Coaching and quality monitoring
Continuous improvement and lean banking
Driving measurable banking improvement
Quality assurance of audit
Continuous improvement of delivery
Outcome and process measures
Benchmarking against standards and best practice
Continuous improvement and lessons learned
Data quality, analysis and reporting

Conflict and Resistance

Property viewings, offers and negotiation to close
Managing difficult conversations
Managing resistance and readiness
Negotiation and conflict management
Conflict resolution and negotiation
Conflicts of interest and transparency
Commercial negotiation and value capture
Sponsorship and negotiation selling
Managing difficult customers
Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
Handling difficult customers and disputes
Managing resistance and reskilling
Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
Conflicts of interest management

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Domestic Violence Counselor principles aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards
Apply evidence-based methods to improve counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing
Master counselling theories, models and approaches and assessment, case formulation and treatment planning
Apply therapeutic skills, alliance and communication and specialised populations and presenting concerns in real-world settings
Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in counselling

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CDVC certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CDVC?

This certification is ideal for Counsellors and Therapists, Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners, Social and Community Workers and Helping-Profession Practitioners, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CDVC certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CDVC internationally recognised?

What is the cost of the CDVC certification?

The Certified Domestic Violence Counselor is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 349 and Live Virtual at USD 549. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CDVC certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CDVC?

The Certified Domestic Violence Counselor is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CDVC?

The Certified Domestic Violence Counselor carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CDVC while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CDVC?

Graduates progress towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles. The CDVC strengthens your expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing and positions you for advancement across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice.

Certified Domestic Violence Counselor

Certified Domestic Violence Counselor

Certification at a Glance

Who Should Enrol?

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Programme Modules

What You Will Achieve

How to Get Certified

Common Questions

What Our Alumni Say

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