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Certified Positive Psychology Practitioner

Online Certification  ·  11 Weeks  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CPSY)

✅ 2026 Edition 🎓 CPD Accredited 🌍 100+ Countries 📜 Digital + Physical Certificate 100% Online
Executive Summary

Certified Positive Psychology Practitioner

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Positive Psychology Practitioner (CPSY) 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 11 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 CPSY 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 Positive Psychology Practitioner
Acronym
CPSY
Category
Counselling & Coaching
Level
Advanced
Duration
11 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 Positive Psychology Practitioner
  • Certified Positive Psychology Practitioner: 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
Scope, Boundary and Referral
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • 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
  • 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
3
The Therapeutic Alliance
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • 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
4
Contracting and Confidentiality
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
5
Listening, Reflection and Restraint
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
6
Ethics, Supervision and Safety
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
7
Outcomes and Review
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
8
Groups and Facilitation
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Virtual and distributed teams
  • Team leadership and motivation
  • Leading project teams
  • Team development and effectiveness
  • Coaching and developing team members
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
  • Building high-performing project teams
  • Cross-functional collaboration with product and service
  • Team leadership in sales and marketing
  • Version control and collaborative development
  • Team leadership within finance
  • Managing resistance and upskilling teams
  • Team leadership in governance
  • Facilitation and difficult conversations
9
Behaviour and Change
  • User adoption and change
  • Designing a strategic or change intervention
  • Change leadership models (Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin)
  • Organisational culture and behaviour change
  • Sustaining change and embedding new behaviours
  • Measuring change and transformation impact
  • Technology adoption and integration
  • Delivering technology change that people adopt
  • Behavioural and process addictions
  • Stages of change and readiness
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Patching and change management
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Data literacy and adoption
10
Goals and Measurement
  • Contract performance and exit
  • Risk treatment and countermeasures
  • Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Psychometric and screening tools
  • Project KPIs and performance metrics
  • 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
11
Leadership Context
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Decision support and insight
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Practice management systems
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
  • Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
  • Project roles and the project manager
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Organisational change management
  • Building project management maturity
  • Lessons learned and knowledge management
  • Quality management and standards
  • Innovation management and creative problem-solving
  • Running meetings that produce decisions
  • Difficult conversations and managerial courage
12
Culture and Inclusion
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Service culture and brand promise
  • Building a customer-centric culture
  • Building a service culture
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Building a culture of compliance
13
Client Relationships
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Stakeholder rights and fair treatment
  • Procurement and contract value
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Stakeholder identification and analysis
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Building project relationships
  • Building strategic customer relationships
  • Negotiation with clients and partners
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
14
Risk and Compliance
  • Credit risk measurement and mitigation
  • Liquidity risk and asset-liability management
  • Operational risk and resilience
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Model risk and provisioning (IFRS 9)
  • Regulatory compliance and central-bank rules
  • Regulatory reporting and audits
  • Technology governance and change control
  • Interest-rate risk and gap analysis
  • Asset-liability committee (ALCO) governance
  • Derivatives and risk instruments
  • Underwriting principles and risk selection
  • Insurance regulation and consumer protection
  • Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
  • Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing
15
Evidence and Research
  • Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
  • Data collection and analytics
  • Predictive safety analytics
  • Data literacy and analytics for leaders
  • Data quality and the fitness-for-purpose test
  • Data protection and privacy by design
  • Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
  • Health records, data and confidentiality
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Treatment planning and review
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
  • Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
16
Wellbeing and Resilience
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Coaching for resilience and wellbeing
  • Stress testing credit portfolios
  • Stress testing and scenarios
  • Wellbeing and personal-effectiveness learning
  • Workplace wellbeing strategy
  • Stress and psychosocial risk
  • Crisis, resilience and contingency planning
17
Workplace Context
  • 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
  • Motivation theories and engagement
  • Workforce and shift management in retail
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Building trust and engagement
  • Motivation and engagement
  • Advocacy and policy engagement
  • Workforce management and scheduling
  • Proactive engagement and success
  • Win-back and re-engagement
18
Practice and Business
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Communicating financial results
  • Business case and strategic alignment
  • Developing the project business case
  • Project budgeting and financial control
  • Funding, cash flow and financing
  • Financial risk in projects
  • Business case and requirements
  • Value management and business value
  • Digital and data-driven go-to-market
  • Agile marketing and experimentation
  • Marketing and sales ethics
  • Brand safety and responsible marketing
19
Digital Delivery
  • Virtual and hybrid facilitation
  • The finance function and digital transformation
  • Digital finance and automation roadmaps
  • Regulatory and digital transformation
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Digital permits and inspections
  • Automation and safety technology
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Emerging-technology evaluation
  • Digital leadership and business transformation
  • Leading technology adoption and change
  • Marketing technology stack
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Evidence-based practice and research literacy
  • Emerging tools and innovation
20
Programme Delivery
  • Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
  • Onboarding and induction programme design
  • Succession planning and talent pipelines
  • Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
  • Designing a safety programme or control
  • Emergency preparedness and response planning
  • Policy, planning and objectives
  • Scenario planning and foresight
  • Leading procurement projects and change
  • Negotiation strategy and planning
  • Programme governance
  • Real estate development and project appraisal
  • Programme cycle management in NGOs
  • Leading groups and workshops
  • Event planning timelines, run sheets and production schedules
21
Community and Family Context
  • Corporate social responsibility communications
  • Community and lifelong learning
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Corporate responsibility and community
  • Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
  • Risk, protective and social factors
  • Sustainability and social impact in projects
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Social media customer care
  • Social performance and outreach
22
Health Context
  • Leadership impact and organisational health metrics
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Telehealth and digital care delivery
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • The consulting mindset and trusted advisor positioning
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
  • Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Health, safety and compliance in delivery
  • Healthy work design
  • Absence and health management
  • Health and safety legal duties
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Diagnosing client problems before prescribing solutions
23
Standards and Quality
  • Quality assurance of audit
  • Continuous improvement of delivery
  • Continuous safety improvement
  • Quality assurance and standards
  • Continuous improvement of programmes
  • Ethics and professional standards in finance
  • Standard costing and variance analysis
  • Continuous improvement of finance processes
  • Measuring governance improvement
  • Product safety and standards
  • Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Continuous improvement and retrospectives
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Quality planning and assurance
24
Conflict and Resistance
  • Conflicts of interest management
  • Conflict resolution and mediation
  • Difficult conversations and feedback
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
  • Diagnosing readiness and managing resistance
  • Managing resistance and capability building
  • Negotiation tactics and behaviours
  • Property viewings, offers and negotiation to close
  • Managing difficult conversations
  • Managing resistance and readiness
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
  • Conflicts of interest and transparency
  • Commercial negotiation and value capture
25
Records and Reporting
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Professional writing and reports
  • Reporting to boards and executives
  • Monitoring, control and reporting
  • Professional documentation and presentation
  • Reporting and dashboards
  • Project data, reporting and analytics
  • Document and configuration management
  • Reporting to leadership
  • Data quality, analysis and reporting
  • Professional report writing and presentation
  • Transaction monitoring and suspicious reporting
  • Process and control documentation
26
Coaching Practice
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
  • Sales enablement and coaching
  • Quality monitoring and coaching
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Coaching for performance
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
  • Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
  • Coaching leaders and managers
  • Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Mentoring and sponsorship
  • Solvency, capital and prudential supervision
27
Ethics and Safeguarding
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Ethics of technology in practice
  • Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
  • Structuring engagements: scope, deliverables and expectations
  • Discovery interviews and evidence gathering
  • Ethics and fair customer treatment
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Responsible and ethical service
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
  • Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
  • Anti-corruption and financial-crime ethics
  • Data ethics and customer privacy
28
Communication Skills
  • Voice, communication and delivery
  • Feedback and developmental conversations
  • Language and communication training
  • Investor relations and market communication
  • Presenting financial information clearly
  • Crisis and reputation communication
  • Communicating and reporting to leadership
  • Continuous feedback and performance conversations
  • Safety communication and campaigns
  • Toolbox talks and safety communication
  • 360-degree feedback and leadership assessment
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Communicating with families and carers
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Communication planning and management
29
Development and Learning
  • Schedule development and optimisation
  • Web and mobile application development
  • Root cause analysis frameworks in advisory work
  • Presenting recommendations to senior decision-makers
  • Pricing, value articulation and professional fees
  • Training and capability building
  • Development banking and project finance
  • Message development and testing
  • Supplier development and innovation
  • Continuing professional development
  • Measuring development impact
  • High-potential identification and talent reviews
  • Knowledge management and capability building
  • Continuous improvement and learning organisations
  • Delegating for development
30
Professional Leadership Practice
  • Receivables, payables and inventory management
  • Financial risk management and derivatives
  • Influencing and advising leaders
  • Regulatory change management
  • Leadership and management development
  • Inclusive leadership and allyship
  • Safety management systems overview (ISO 45001)
  • Safety culture and leadership
  • Management and board reporting
  • Influencing and safety leadership
  • Ethics and independence in advisory relationships
  • Servant leadership and self-organising teams
  • Project management software and tools
  • Portfolio and resource management systems
  • Programme management principles
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Positive Psychology Practitioner 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 CPSY 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 CPSY?

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 CPSY certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 11 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 CPSY 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 CPSY certification?

The Certified Positive Psychology Practitioner 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 CPSY 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 CPSY?

The Certified Positive Psychology Practitioner 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 CPSY?

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

Can I study the CPSY 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 CPSY?

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

Graduate Voices

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

Wellbeing Programme Manager
Government
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