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Lay Counselor Training Academy

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What is a Lay Counselor?

Lay counselors are trained helpers who do not have traditional mental health education, master’s degrees, or licenses but can provide crucial support, comfort, and care to patients or clients who are suffering.

Where do Lay Counselors Work?

Lay counselors can work in any health or social care organization, such as primary care or hospital systems.  Lay counselors can also work in schools, universities or any other human service setting.

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Why Lay Counselor Training?

Mental Health

We are in a mental health crisis in this country, with children, adolescents and adults with high levels of need

Need

We do not have enough licensed mental health therapists to meet the current need

Support

There is good evidence that Lay Counselors can provide comparable services to licensed therapists

What if your staff could get 50 hours of deep,
transformational learning to be a lay counselor?

When should your organization use a Lay Counselor?

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If your organization has long wait lists for patients, clients or students to see behavioral health clinicians...

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If your patients, clients or students experience long wait times before a first BH appointment…

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If you’ve had continuous open BH clinician positions that you can’t fill…

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If you can’t find bilingual or bicultural BH clinicians….

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At its center, counseling is deep, skillful listening; creating a sphere of non-judgment and empathy; focusing on strengths, and working shoulder to shoulder with another, to help find the best path forward. These skills and strategies are not degree or license-dependent.'"
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benefits of Having Lay Counselors for your healthcare organization

Provide Timely Care

Get your patients, clients, or students the care they need in a safe and timely manner

Enrich Your Team

Enrich and elevate your most dedicated, skillful employees

Additional Counselling Skills

Spread core behavioral health counselling skills throughout your organization

Our Course Modules:

By signing up to our EM Consulting Lay Counselor academy your staff will learn the following:

Counseling Strategies:
Equity and Empathy:
Conditions and Evidence-based Treatments:
Nuts and Bolts:

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