The Ministerial Seminary of America

Supporting Independent Ministers

Through Education, Training and Ordinaiton

Spiritual Counselor

Certified Spiritual Witnessing Counselor (CSWC)

On Line Study

Tuition: $1200.00

Course Guide and textbooks are included.

To register for this course, please click HERE

After your tuition and registration form have been processed we will send your text books directly to your home and send your course guide via email.

Questions? Call (301)529-2895

You have empathy for those who are suffering. You have a compassionate heart. You connect with the Spirit within us all. You have hope--for yourself and for humanity. You want to share your gifts with those who could benefit from them by sharing your healing ways with your friends, your community, your country and the wider world. You want to begin your practice. You want to be a Spiritual Counselor.

Certification as a Spiritual Witnessing Counselor provides students with an opportunity to share their healing gifts with those in need by preparing each student to establish their own private spiritual counseling practice. Delving deeply into the soul, we each find our own inspired words of healing. By creating a deeper and stronger connection with our own spirituality, we allow an opportunity for others to do the same.

This course is designed to train students in the art of spiritual counseling. Learning to listen deeply, while holding a sacred place for clients to find their answers from within, is central to this course. Students are also exposed to a wide variety of methods and theoretical frameworks to employ in order to help clients shift their perceptions from victimhood to personal power, spiritual growth and freedom. Always aligned with Spirit, this course provides a solid foundation from which students can begin their Spiritual Counseling Practice.

Courses are offered to ordained ministers, only. You are welcome to obtain your ordination through our seminary, but we honor ordinations from other organizations as well. Validation of previous ordination is required.

All textbooks as well as the Course Guide are included in the tuition fee. This is a self-paced course of study with facilitation and support offered via email.

Course Synopsis: (To be completed in the following order)

1. Completion of "Certified Spiritual Witnessing Counselor" Course Guide (download provided). This course workbook guides you through a study plan utilizing each of the required textbooks. Textbooks are included in tuition fee and sent directly to the student's home after tuition payment has been processed.

2. Completion of "Letting Go of Childhood Pain" Workbook (Provided on line).

3. Final Exam (Student must receive a 75% or higher to obtain certification).

4. Three (3) practice sessions in Witnessing Spiritual Counseling with an MSA teacher or staff member via phone.

Upon completion of this course of study, students receive a Certificate and are granted the use of the credentials, CSWC (Certified Spiritual Witnessing Counselor) .

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could;

some blunders and absurdities have crept in;

forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day;

you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit

to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What our students are saying about this course

Reverend Phyllis Criss, CSWC

Letter to The Seminary (2/15/10)

This note is for the purpose of relating my gratitude to you, and The Ministerial Seminary of America. My joy in sharing the gospel message of Jesus Christ began as a child as early as four years of age sharing Pastor's message to my dolls. I still recall Rev. Robinson. I learned at my mother's knees--my mother--an evangelist and prayer warrior.

While searching for an Ordination in a Ministerial role, to actually see this title on paper, I found The Ministerial Seminary of America and took a step of faith. My needs were accomplished in the discovery of becoming ordained as an Independent Minister. This find enables me to minister the gospel message of Jesus Christ simply as Jesus intended, using the Holy Bible as my text, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit of our Living God.

This letter is somewhat slow in coming as I have found it difficult to find adequate words to express in relation to the Seminary and its eloquent founder, Rev. Barbara S. Eberle. May I share? During the time of my search, Rev. Eberle was always kind and patient while gently providing leadership and trust. While an online study, the interaction of this professor is of classroom attention, contact and value. She is firm, and decisive, yet presents a warm loving guidance with openness and acceptance. The Ministerial Seminary is generous in providing a payment plan making the course work adaptable to all.

Following my Ordination, my step of faith led me to earn Certification as a Spiritual Witnessing Counselor. My experience on a college level began as a Medical Assisting Major; a Business Major; Certification UC Berkeley; Vocational Teacher, including Psychology, and additional studies within my own denomination, and community ( re: Drug Abuse Coalition) enables me to say, without doubt, that this course study for CSWC, is of the finest University level.

This course study is beneficial to anyone who comes in contact with the general public. I would recommend this study for personal growth, for the betterment of self and for building a good relationship with others. The text books show an excellence in sequential selection. The CSWC course includes a study of its own merit, "Childhood Pain," by Rev. Eberle, herself. This is an outstanding work causing the student to look deeply into the past and past influences, bringing a healing within, enabling, the Spiritual Counselor to look at clients with deep compassion.

Most Sincerely,

Reverend Phyllis Criss

Certified Spiritual Counselor

Ordained Spiritual Counselor