Certified School Counsellor Course

It is designed for psychology and child-development graduates, teachers and school wellbeing staff, career-guidance professionals, and counsellors moving into school settings in India.

No clinical degree is required to begin. Schools, boards and employers set their own base qualifications for counselling posts, so check theirs before you enrol.

Yes. The course is online and self-paced, with no cohort dates or live sessions. Progress is saved automatically, so you can pause and resume whenever you need to.

The published estimate is 10h of total study, including the case studies and applied activities. Because the course is self-paced, how long it takes depends on your own schedule.

Course access is lifetime from enrolment. The material you have purchased stays available to you whether or not you later renew your certificate.

The certificate is issued only after you pass a final exam of 30 questions with a 60-minute time limit. The pass mark is 65%. The case studies and activities inside the course are there to practise on; the exam is the graded part.

You can sit the exam up to 3 times, with at least 24 hours between attempts. Each attempt draws a fresh set of questions, so a retake is a new paper rather than the same one again.

As soon as you pass the exam. The certificate carries your name, the credential title and a unique certificate number entered on the public register.

Yes. Anyone can enter the certificate number on the public register. The check is free, needs no account, and does not require contacting Therapy Council.

No. Your Therapy Council credential remains permanently verifiable in the register. The certificate also shows a Curriculum Current Through date, four years from issue, marking the period during which the curriculum version you completed is considered current. After that date your original credential stays on the register. Completing the current reassessment for an updated credential is optional. Full terms are in our Terms and Conditions.

No. Therapy Council is an independent private organisation, not a regulator, a licensing board, or an accredited academic institution. Its certifications attest to training completed and assessment passed. They are not a clinical licence and do not replace jurisdiction-specific licensing or regulatory requirements. If you are asking whether this counts toward a board renewal, your board is the final authority. Ask them first, and we will send you whatever documentation they need.

Refund requests must be made within seven days of purchase. Eligible requests include duplicate purchases, an access problem we cannot resolve, and a purchase made in error before substantial course content has been accessed. Attempted exams, issued certificates and substantially accessed content are not refundable. The full terms are in the Refund Policy.

Among school counselling courses, this programme is specifically grounded in the Indian education context and addresses the wellbeing, guidance, inclusion, and referral responsibilities associated with NEP 2020. It supports professional development, but each school, board, and employer remains responsible for defining the base qualifications required for a role.

No. This is an assessed professional certification in school counselling, not a diploma in child psychology or an academic degree. It includes child and adolescent development because school counsellors need that foundation, but the award title is Certified School Counsellor and it does not qualify someone as a psychologist.

No. Statutory registration, where applicable, depends on the qualifications and requirements prescribed by the relevant regulatory authority. Therapy Council certification is an independent professional-development credential.