The Centre offers a volunteer counselling training program every year to train people to become volunteer counsellors with the Centre.
Volunteers receive approximately 200 hours of training with professional counsellors and educators over ten-months, one evening a week. In return, they commit to offering the Centre 200 sessions of counselling once they graduate.

In addition to the weekly training evening, there are three weekend workshops, reading requirements, and co-counselling practice. The training involves both personal growth work and the development of counselling skills in a variety of counselling approaches. Counsellors receive regular, ongoing supervision of their counselling through the Centre.

Our valued volunteers often describe the training as “a remarkable life-changing experience”; that you “come away with a deepened sense of self and relationship with both yourself and others”; and that you have an “ability to be present with clients in a way that helps and heals”.

The training program begins in September and ends in June each year. Eighteen people are chosen to participate from those interviewed. Applications for the training program are available annually in the Spring.
Please read our Information Sheet for more information about the training program.