What is the Certified Mental Health Support Specialist?

The Certified Mental Health Support Specialist is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Occupational Health & Safety.

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 Advanced 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 Mental Health Support Specialist

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Mental Health Support Specialist (CMHSS) delivers a rigorous Advanced-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 CMHSS 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 Mental Health Support Specialist

Acronym

CMHSS

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 Mental Health Support Specialist

Certified Mental Health Support Specialist: 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

Alliance and Presence

The working alliance and coaching presence
Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
Evaluating coaching outcomes
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
Working with ambivalence and motivation
Group facilitation and group process

Change Between Sessions

Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
Evaluating coaching outcomes
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
The boundary between coaching and therapy

Ethics and Supervision

Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
The boundary between coaching and therapy
Building and running a coaching practice

Working Across Difference

Cultural context and coaching across difference
The working alliance and coaching presence
Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships

Building a Sustainable Practice

Building and running a coaching practice
Evaluating coaching outcomes
Contracting and the three-way agreement

The Practitioner Remit

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

Therapeutic Practice

Analytical techniques and bias
Coaching for resilience and wellbeing
Wellbeing and personal-effectiveness learning
Workplace wellbeing strategy
Employment relationship and the psychological contract
Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
Innovation culture, incentives and psychological safety
Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
Preparing financial statements
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Wellbeing and resilience coaching
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)

Ethics and Safeguarding

Ethics and professional responsibility
Integrated and sustainability reporting
Reporting quality and governance
Management accounts and dashboards
Budget vs actual and variance
Coaching principles and ethics
Roles, conduct and professional standards in banking
Data security and confidentiality
Ethics, responsibility and digital citizenship
Professional ethics in technology
Data ethics, privacy and protection
Ethics and responsible innovation
Ethical leadership and integrity
Professional standards and continuing development
Professional ethics and codes (CIPS)

Communication Skills

Safety communication and campaigns
Communicating risk to the workforce
Toolbox talks and safety communication
Communicating vision and telling stories
Difficult conversations and feedback
Executive communication and presence
Cross-cultural communication
Giving and receiving feedback
Voice of the customer and feedback
Communications and coordination
The media and telecommunications landscape
Communication planning and management
Integrated marketing communications
Professional presentation and pitching
Media and public communication

Development and Learning

Cost and profitability analysis
Forecasting and planning
Data visualisation for finance
Decision support and insight
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Complaint data and learning
Training and capability building
Development banking and project finance
Message development and testing
Supplier development and innovation
Continuing professional development
Feedback and developmental conversations
Career and talent development
Motivation and self-directed learning
Capability and skills frameworks

Groups and Facilitation

Aligning teams around strategy
Team formation and effectiveness models (Tuckman, Lencioni)
Managing team performance and dynamics
Cross-functional and matrix teams
Leading remote and hybrid teams
Team diversity and inclusion
High-performance team rituals and cadence
Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools
Coordination with teams and agencies
Attachment and developmental theory
Peer support and consultation
Virtual and distributed teams
Team leadership and motivation
Leading project teams
Team development and effectiveness

Behaviour and Change

Regulatory change management
User adoption and change
Motivation theories and engagement
Buyer behaviour and the customer journey
Negotiation tactics and behaviours
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
Motivation and engagement
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Behaviour change and adoption of innovations

Goals and Measurement

Yield, productivity and profitability metrics
Duty of care and risk management
Linking CX to business performance
Net Promoter Score and satisfaction metrics
Performance management in service
Coaching for performance
Service quality and turnaround metrics
Credit risk measurement and mitigation
Sales performance and pipeline management
Social performance and outreach
Investment principles and objectives
Customer and brand health metrics
Brand health and measurement
Dashboards and performance reporting
Capacity and performance management

Leadership Context

Quality management and standards
Governance of procurement decisions
Category management and strategy development
Data quality and master data management
Crisis management and recovery
Security governance and management systems
Record-keeping and data protection
Key account management
Travel risk management
Journey management and tracking
Tax risk management
Procurement and contract management
Vendor selection and management
Issue and problem management
Servant leadership and self-organising teams

Culture and Inclusion

Safety culture and leadership
Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
Creating a coaching culture
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Brand strategy, identity and equity
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Evidence-based improvement
Managing risk and difficult cases
Lessons learned and development
Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Designing and facilitating groups
Building a coaching culture
Nomination, succession and diversity
The business case for diversity and inclusion
HR's role in culture, values and employer brand

Client Relationships

Contract exit and renewal
Stakeholder mapping and engagement
Stakeholders and users of financial information
Stakeholders, agency and accountability
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
Shareholder and stakeholder rights
Contractor and visitor safety
Transparency and stakeholder trust
Categories of spend and stakeholders
Contract types and risk allocation
Contract administration and variation
Subcontractor and supplier management
Managing boundaries and dual relationships
Client feedback and satisfaction
Goal setting and contracting

Risk and Compliance

Corporate governance principles and purpose
Technical and compliance training
Accounting concepts, principles and the regulatory landscape
Psychoeducation and workshops
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
The regulatory and legal environment
Governance and organisational value
Public, private and non-profit governance
Responsible and sustainable governance
Governance frameworks and codes
Compliance frameworks and programmes
Audit risk and materiality
Designing an intervention or programme
Compliance monitoring and testing
Environmental governance and climate risk

Evidence and Research

Service analytics and dashboards
Text and interaction analytics
Data privacy and consent
Data ethics and customer privacy
Data protection and customer privacy
Data, analytics and customer insight
Data analytics in audit
Evidence, judgement and scepticism
Data migration and cleansing
Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
Data collection and analytics
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
Health records, data and confidentiality

Wellbeing and Resilience

Stress testing and scenario analysis
Stress and psychosocial risk
Managing growth, risk and resilience
Operational risk and resilience
Professional case study and presentation
Stress testing credit portfolios
Stress testing and scenarios
Crisis, resilience and contingency planning
Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
Business continuity and resilience
Customer experience strategy

Workplace Context

Workforce planning and scheduling
Employee experience and engagement
Customer and community engagement
Customer and employee satisfaction
Assurance engagements and standards
Measuring engagement and impact
Employee engagement models and drivers
The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
Managing resistance and engagement
Worker engagement and empowerment
Stakeholder engagement strategy
Advocacy and policy engagement
Workforce management and scheduling
Proactive engagement and success

Practice and Business

Agile marketing and experimentation
Marketing and sales ethics
Brand safety and responsible marketing
Sustainability and responsible marketing
Marketing and sales KPIs and dashboards
Value-based and dynamic pricing
Market and customer analysis
Designing a marketing or sales strategy
Campaign or go-to-market plan
Marketing strategy and the mix
Pricing strategy
Interpreting financial statements
Communicating financial results
Practice management systems
Pricing, value articulation and professional fees

Digital Delivery

Virtual and hybrid facilitation
The finance function and digital transformation
Evidence-based practice
Digital permits and inspections
Automation and safety technology
Risk assessment and safety planning
Emerging-technology evaluation
Digital transformation and IT strategy
Digital procurement and the future of the profession
Treatment planning and review
Equipment and technology
Digital disruption and the future of banking
Digital transformation in banking
Branch-to-digital migration
Digital banking platforms and APIs

Programme Delivery

Innovation and continuous delivery
Agile and digital transformation projects
Scaling delivery capability
Building project management maturity
Measuring change and project impact
Sustainability and social impact in projects
Health, safety and compliance in delivery
Project KPIs and performance metrics
Quality and delivery metrics
Project management maturity assessment
Driving measurable delivery improvement
The vehicle sales process from enquiry to delivery
Demand, master scheduling and material requirements planning
Capacity planning and line balancing
Projects and expansion: connecting the unserved

Community and Family Context

Social media customer care
Corporate social responsibility communications
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Corporate responsibility and community
Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
Corporate social responsibility and community impact
Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
Community natural-resource governance
Community engagement and equity
Social media and community management
Mentorship, networks and the community of practice

Health Context

Managing complexity and comorbidity
Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Workplace and organisational contexts
Healthy work design
Absence and health management
Confidentiality and health data
Goal setting and action planning
Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
Accountability and follow-through
Strengths, flow and engagement

Standards and Quality

Continuous improvement and lean banking
Driving measurable banking improvement
Process improvement and automation
Service levels and quality
IT professional roles and standards
Quality assurance of audit
Continuous improvement of delivery
Quality assurance and standards
Continuous improvement of programmes
Ethics and professional standards in finance
Standard costing and variance analysis
Continuous improvement of finance processes
Product safety and standards
Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
Continuous improvement cycles

Conflict and Resistance

Managing resistance and readiness
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Conflict resolution and negotiation
Conflicts of interest and transparency
Commercial negotiation and value capture
Sponsorship and negotiation selling
Negotiation with clients and partners
Managing difficult customers
Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
De-escalation and difficult customers
Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
Conflicts of interest management
Conflict resolution and mediation
Conflicts of interest and fairness

Records and Reporting

Data quality, analysis and reporting
Transaction monitoring and suspicious reporting
Regulatory reporting and audits
Process and control documentation
Control monitoring and reporting
Tender planning and documentation
Professional report and presentation
Board reporting and investor relations
Management reporting and decision support
Board reporting and information flows
Management and board reporting
Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
Reporting to boards and executives
Monitoring, control and reporting
Professional documentation and presentation

Coaching Practice

Group and team coaching
Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
Mentoring and sponsorship
Solvency, capital and prudential supervision
Measuring coaching outcomes
Sales enablement and coaching
Quality monitoring and coaching
Coaching and quality monitoring
The coaching relationship
Strengths-based coaching

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Mental Health Support Specialist 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 CMHSS 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 CMHSS?

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 CMHSS 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 CMHSS internationally recognised?

What is the cost of the CMHSS certification?

The Certified Mental Health Support Specialist is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CMHSS 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 CMHSS?

The Certified Mental Health Support Specialist 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 CMHSS?

The Certified Mental Health Support Specialist carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CMHSS 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 CMHSS?

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

Certified Mental Health Support Specialist

Certified Mental Health Support Specialist

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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