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Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive

Online Certification  ·  12 Weeks  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CCSE2)

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Executive Summary

Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive (CCSE2) delivers a rigorous Executive-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing.

This 12 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 CCSE2 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 Counselling and Social Services Executive
Acronym
CCSE2
Category
Counselling & Coaching
Level
Executive
Duration
12 Weeks
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 399
Live Virtual
USD 599
Target Audience

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.

1
Foundations and Professional Context of Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive
  • Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive: 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
2
Ethics, Supervision and Safety
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Risk assessment and safeguarding in practice
  • Trauma-informed delivery and its limits
  • Working with ambivalence and motivation
  • 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
3
Outcomes and Review
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Building and running a coaching practice
  • Clinical assessment and shared formulation
  • Therapeutic modalities and choosing an approach
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
  • Team coaching and the team as client
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
4
Scope, Boundary and Referral
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
5
The Therapeutic Alliance
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
6
Contracting and Confidentiality
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
7
Listening, Reflection and Restraint
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
8
Programme Delivery
  • Loyalty programmes and rewards
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
  • Leading service projects and change
  • Content marketing and editorial planning
  • Sales forecasting and territory planning
  • Banking products, services and delivery channels
  • Leading banking projects and change
  • Development banking and project finance
  • Continuous improvement in delivery
  • IT project and portfolio management
  • Leading IT projects and change
  • Collaborative and client-led planning
  • Leading governance projects and change
  • Audit planning and execution
  • Communication strategy in change programmes
9
Community and Family Context
  • Community and tenant engagement
  • Risk, protective and social factors
  • Recovery capital and community
  • Mentorship, networks and the community of practice
  • Community natural-resource governance
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Community engagement and equity
  • Social and digital PR
  • Family intervention planning
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Social and collaborative learning
  • Social media customer care
  • Social media and community management
  • Customer and community engagement
  • Social performance and outreach
10
Health Context
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Health, safety and compliance in delivery
  • Customer and brand health metrics
  • Brand health and measurement
  • Health and safety legal duties
  • Absence, capability and ill-health management
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Health records, data and confidentiality
  • Telehealth and digital care delivery
  • Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
11
Standards and Quality
  • Quality and delivery metrics
  • Continuous improvement and retrospectives
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Quality planning and assurance
  • Quality control and continuous improvement
  • Integrated risk and quality control
  • Data quality and governance
  • Professional standards and ethics
  • Continuous improvement and optimisation
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Continuous improvement cycles
  • Driving measurable safety improvement
  • Continuous environmental improvement
  • Management review and improvement
12
Conflict and Resistance
  • Conflicts of interest management
  • Conflict resolution and mediation
  • Managing resistance and engagement
  • Difficult conversations and feedback
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
  • Managing resistance and capability building
  • Negotiation strategy and planning
  • Negotiation tactics and behaviours
  • Property viewings, offers and negotiation to close
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Managing difficult conversations
  • Working with conflict and change
  • Managing resistance and readiness
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
  • Negotiation and conflict management
13
Records and Reporting
  • Project data, reporting and analytics
  • Document and configuration management
  • Dashboards and performance reporting
  • Reporting to leadership
  • Data quality, analysis and reporting
  • Professional report writing and presentation
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Transaction monitoring and suspicious reporting
  • Regulatory reporting and audits
  • Professional and technical documentation
  • Process and control documentation
  • Environmental monitoring and reporting
  • Incident reporting and record-keeping
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Sustainability reporting and disclosure
14
Coaching Practice
  • Solvency, capital and prudential supervision
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
  • Coaching and developing team members
  • Sales enablement and coaching
  • Quality monitoring and coaching
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Coaching for performance
  • Building a coaching culture
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
  • Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
  • Coaching and skill development
  • Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Mentoring and sponsorship
15
Therapeutic Practice
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Innovation culture, incentives and psychological safety
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Communicating financial results
  • Workplace wellbeing strategy
  • Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
  • Risk assessment methodology and matrices
  • Job safety analysis (JSA) and task risk
  • Dynamic and site-specific risk assessment
  • Attachment and developmental theory
16
Ethics and Safeguarding
  • Anti-corruption and financial-crime ethics
  • Data ethics and customer privacy
  • Ethics and independence
  • Ethics in communications
  • Ethics and professional standards in finance
  • Ethics, confidentiality and professional conduct in HR
  • Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
  • Ethics and duty of care
  • Professional ethics and duty of care
  • Ethical decision-making under pressure
  • Ethics and responsible leadership
  • Professional standards and ethics (CIPS)
  • Ethics and professional conduct in security
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
17
Communication Skills
  • Feedback and developmental conversations
  • Crisis and reputation communication
  • Communicating and reporting to leadership
  • Continuous feedback and performance conversations
  • Safety communication and campaigns
  • Communicating risk to the workforce
  • Toolbox talks and safety communication
  • 360-degree feedback and leadership assessment
  • Communicating vision and telling stories
  • Executive communication and presence
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Professional documentation and presentation
  • Communication planning and management
  • Integrated marketing communications
18
Development and Learning
  • Career development and internal mobility
  • Knowledge management and capability building
  • Learning technologies and the LMS
  • Learning transfer and capability building
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Minimum viable offer and validated learning
  • Delegating for development
  • Category management and strategy development
  • Supplier development and improvement
  • Real estate development and project appraisal
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
  • Active-learning methods
  • Continuing professional development
  • Measuring development impact
  • Cognitive load and learning science
19
Groups and Facilitation
  • Building high-performing project teams
  • Cross-functional collaboration with product and service
  • Team leadership in sales and marketing
  • 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
  • Innovation and fintech collaboration
  • Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools
  • Team leadership in security operations
  • Building high-performing sales teams
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
20
Behaviour and Change
  • Behavioural and process addictions
  • Stages of change and readiness
  • 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
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Variations, claims and delay: managing change on site
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
21
Goals and Measurement
  • Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Psychometric and screening tools
  • Project KPIs and performance metrics
  • Managing schedule and budget performance
  • Agile metrics and velocity
  • Setting objectives and marketing KPIs
  • Funnel, pipeline and conversion metrics
  • Capacity and performance management
  • Sales performance and pipeline management
  • Performance and load testing
  • Metrics, velocity and flow
  • Measuring IT value and performance
22
Leadership Context
  • IT financial management and value
  • Presenting and influencing
  • Team leadership in technology
  • Influencer and partnership communications
  • Campaign execution and management
  • Thought leadership
  • Category management and strategy
  • Theories and models of leadership and management
  • Safety management systems (ISO 45001)
  • Project management principles and lifecycle
  • Financial, management and cost accounting distinguished
  • Reconciliation and nostro/vostro management
  • Enterprise risk management in banks
  • Liquidity risk and asset-liability management
  • Business continuity and crisis management
23
Culture and Inclusion
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • Financial inclusion and serving underbanked markets
  • Nomination, succession and diversity
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
  • Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions
  • Safety culture and leadership
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Team diversity and inclusion
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Building a culture of compliance
  • Financial inclusion and agency banking
  • DevOps culture and practices
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
24
Client Relationships
  • Stakeholder mapping and business partnering
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Contract law and formation
  • 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
  • Categories of spend and stakeholders
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
  • Relationship management and retention
  • Managing difficult stakeholders
25
Risk and Compliance
  • Tariffs, regulation and the economics of essential services
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Project governance and assurance
  • Project governance frameworks
  • Compliance and regulatory projects
  • Leading project governance
  • Financial risk in projects
  • Regulatory and fair-treatment obligations
  • The regulatory landscape and central banking
  • Corporate governance in banks
  • Regulatory duty and accountability
26
Evidence and Research
  • Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
  • 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
  • AI and predictive project analytics
  • Building your professional portfolio and evidence of practice
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Baseline surveys and data collection tools
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
27
Workplace Context
  • Measuring engagement and impact
  • Policy and public engagement
  • Employee engagement models and drivers
  • Future of work and workforce transformation
  • The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Collective relations and union engagement
  • Employee relations, discipline and fair process
  • Employee engagement and what actually drives it
  • Worker engagement and empowerment
  • Team and engagement metrics
  • Workforce management and scheduling
  • Proactive engagement and success
  • Win-back and re-engagement
  • Employee experience and engagement
28
Practice and Business
  • Market research design and methods
  • Competitive and market intelligence
  • E-commerce and marketplace selling
  • Carbon markets and climate finance
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Treatment planning and review
  • Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
  • Scaling technologies and business models
  • Access to finance, grants and investment
  • Digital and market transformation
  • Pay structures, benchmarking and market pricing
  • The HR operating model and business partnering
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
  • Business continuity and recovery
29
Digital Delivery
  • Branch-to-digital migration
  • Digital banking platforms and APIs
  • Payment technology and switches
  • Cybersecurity and fraud technology
  • Digital credit and alternative data
  • Digital transformation roadmaps
  • Innovation and technology investment
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Designing engaging online sessions
  • Assessment and feedback online
  • Virtual and hybrid facilitation
  • Virtual and distributed teams
  • Emerging project technologies
  • Digital disruption and modern go-to-market
  • Digital and data-driven go-to-market
30
Professional Leadership Practice
  • Earned value management
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Vendor selection and management
  • Issue and problem management
  • Project management software and tools
  • Portfolio and resource management systems
  • Programme management principles
  • Portfolio management and prioritisation
  • Value management and business value
  • The two-year horizon: expertise, leadership and professional standing
  • Revenue management and yield
  • Tender and bid management
  • Land-use planning and management
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Pollution and waste management
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive 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 CCSE2 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 CCSE2?

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 CCSE2 certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 12 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 CCSE2 internationally recognised?

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.

What is the cost of the CCSE2 certification?

The Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 399 and Live Virtual at USD 599. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CCSE2 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 CCSE2?

The Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive 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 CCSE2?

The Certified Counselling and Social Services Executive carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CCSE2 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 CCSE2?

Graduates progress towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles. The CCSE2 strengthens your expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing and positions you for advancement across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice.

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What Our Alumni Say

The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Clinical Lead
Private Sector

GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

Senior Counsellor
NGO Sector

I earned my CCSE2 while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

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Government
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