What this certification is, and what it isn't
What it is
- Structured training in workplace stress and burnout: psychosocial risk, prevention, recovery support, return-to-work planning, and programme design.
- A graded assessment and a numbered credential any employer can check on our public register.
- Built for HR, people teams, managers, coaches, and wellbeing practitioners working in a non-clinical role.
What it isn't
- Not a qualification to diagnose or treat a mental-health condition.
- Not a replacement for occupational health, EAP, or clinical services — it teaches you when to route to them.
- Not a degree. Therapy Council is an independent certification body, not a university or a regulator.
How does certification work?
Study online at your own pace, complete the required learning, and pass the assessment to receive your numbered Therapy Council credential.
- Format
- Online, self-paced
- Learning time
- 8h including applied work
- Curriculum
- 11 modules · 175 lessons
- Language
- English
- Assessment
- Required for certification
- Certificate
- Permanent register record
What does the course fee include?
Video teaching, learning material, case studies, assignments and the certification exam are all part of the programme, not extras you pay for later.
On-demand teaching across 11 modules, watched at your own pace.
Module notes, references and written material you keep for life.
Worked real-world scenarios showing how the methods play out with actual clients and settings.
Practice tasks and reflection prompts that turn the teaching into something you can do.
The assessment that gates your certificate is part of the programme, with no separate exam fee.
A numbered certificate on the public register permanently, with lifetime access to the material.
What will you be ready to do?
Things you should be able to do at the end, not just describe.
Who is this certification for?
This certification is designed for professionals adding structured wellbeing skills to an existing or developing role.
Who is it designed for?
- HR and people-experience professionals
- Managers and organisational leaders
- Coaches, counsellors, and wellbeing practitioners
- Learning and development specialists
What should you know before enrolling?
- No prior Therapy Council course is required
- Experience supporting people or organisations is helpful
- The programme does not replace clinical or occupational-health qualifications
What will you study?
The published curriculum moves from foundations to applied practice, with the course introduction available to preview.
0Course Introduction1 topic+
Free preview — watch before you enrol
1Stress and burnout, defined properly6 topics+
- 1.1Stress versus pressure versus burnout: they're not the same thing
- 1.2The biology of the stress response in plain terms
- 1.3Acute versus chronic stress and why chronic is the real problem
- 1.4Burnout as an occupational phenomenon: the WHO definition and what it means
- 1.5The three dimensions of burnout: exhaustion, cynicism, reduced efficacy
- 1.6Why "resilience training" alone fails, and what the research actually shows
2What causes workplace stress (and it's mostly not the individual)7 topics+
- 2.1Psychosocial hazards: the six that matter most
- 2.2Workload, demand, and the pace of work
- 2.3Control, autonomy, and powerlessness
- 2.4Role clarity, conflict, and ambiguity
- 2.5Relationships, management quality, and incivility
- 2.6Change, insecurity, and the always-on culture
- 2.7The honest point: you can't meditate your way out of a broken system
3How stress and burnout show up6 topics+
- 3.1Early warning signs in individuals
- 3.2Behavioural, cognitive, emotional, and physical signs
- 3.3Spotting it in yourself
- 3.4Team-level signals: turnover, absence, presenteeism, conflict
- 3.5The cost: to health, to performance, to the organisation
- 3.6Why burnout gets misread as poor performance or attitude
4Assessing stress and burnout5 topics+
- 4.1Running a stress risk assessment
- 4.2Validated tools: Maslach Burnout Inventory and alternatives
- 4.3Surveys, focus groups, and reading existing data
- 4.4Mapping hotspots across roles, teams, and sites
- 4.5Turning assessment into a clear picture leadership will act on
5Individual-level intervention6 topics+
- 5.1Evidence-based stress management techniques that actually work
- 5.2Recovery, rest, and the science of detachment from work
- 5.3Sleep, energy, and the basics that get ignored
- 5.4Cognitive approaches to stress and unhelpful thinking
- 5.5Building genuine resilience without victim-blaming
- 5.6Coaching an individual through burnout recovery
6Team and manager-level intervention6 topics+
- 6.1The manager's outsized effect on team stress
- 6.2Equipping managers to spot and respond
- 6.3Workload management and realistic demand
- 6.4Job design and giving people more control
- 6.5Building recovery and boundaries into how a team works
- 6.6Psychological safety as a buffer against burnout
7Organisational-level intervention6 topics+
- 7.1Why primary prevention beats fixing people after the fact
- 7.2Redesigning work, not just supporting workers
- 7.3Policy: working hours, leave, right to disconnect
- 7.4Culture change and leadership behaviour
- 7.5Embedding stress management into how the organisation runs
- 7.6The hierarchy of controls applied to psychosocial risk
8Supporting people in difficulty5 topics+
- 8.1Holding a conversation with someone who's struggling
- 8.2Supporting an employee toward and through burnout leave
- 8.3Return-to-work and phased reintegration after burnout
- 8.4Knowing your limits and referring to clinical support
- 8.5EAP, occupational health, and counselling pathways
9The legal and duty-of-care picture5 topics+
- 9.1The employer's duty of care for psychological health (India context)
- 9.2Emerging psychosocial risk regulation and where it's heading
- 9.3Stress, burnout, and reasonable accommodation
- 9.4Confidentiality, data, and consent in stress assessment
- 9.5Building defensible policy and process
10Building and proving a stress reduction programme6 topics+
- 10.1Designing an intervention plan from assessment to action
- 10.2Choosing the right mix of individual, team, and organisational measures
- 10.3Measuring impact: what to track and how
- 10.4Making the financial case: the cost of burnout versus the cost of acting
- 10.5Reporting to leadership and sustaining momentum
- 10.6Iterating on evidence, not on the latest wellness fad
How do you earn the certification?
Watching the modules does not issue a certificate. The credential is gated on one thing: a written exam at the end, marked against a published pass mark. It tests the knowledge behind the practice.
Work through the modules, case studies and applied activities. The activities are yours to practise with; the exam is the graded part.
Meet the published pass mark. Your result comes back as soon as you submit.
Your numbered certificate goes on the public register and stays there permanently.
CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT
PRESENTED TO
Specimen
FOR SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING THE
Certified Workplace Well-Being Practitioner
CERTIFICATION ISSUED BY THERAPY COUNCIL™
This certificate records assessed achievement against the published programme standard: the required learning completed and the final assessment passed.
Every certificate carries a unique number and a live register entry.
Employers, clients, and anyone else can check it against the public register, free and without an account, for as long as you hold the credential.
Look up this specimen on the registerBefore you pay
- 7-day refund
Email us within 7 days of buying and we refund to your original payment method, as long as you have not sat the exam or worked substantially through the material. Full terms
- Pay in instalments
EMI options appear at checkout alongside UPI, cards, and net banking.
- Questions before enrolling?
Ask about the programme using the form on this page, or read the support policy.
Where can you use these skills?
The settings graduates take this work into.
- Employee wellbeing programmes
- Manager and team development
- Burnout prevention and return-to-work support
- Organisational policy and job-design conversations
What do learners ask before enrolling?
What does this workplace wellbeing certification cover?
This workplace wellbeing certification covers workplace stress and burnout science, psychosocial risk, psychological safety, individual and organisational interventions, referral boundaries, and programme design. It is a self-paced corporate wellness certification for professionals supporting employees, teams, or organisations in a non-clinical role.
Does the course teach how to recover from burnout?
The course teaches practitioners how to support a structured, sustainable recovery from burnout, including workload and workplace factors, phased return-to-work planning, professional boundaries, and referral. It is professional training, not personal medical treatment, and learners should seek qualified care for their own health needs.
Does this qualify me as a post-burnout recovery coach?
The programme develops non-clinical skills that a coach may use when supporting post-burnout recovery within an existing professional scope. The credential awarded is Certified Workplace Well-Being Practitioner; it does not confer a separate post-burnout recovery coach title or qualify someone to diagnose or treat a mental-health condition.
Are these employer-verifiable wellness credentials?
Yes. Learners who complete the programme and pass the assessment receive an employer-verifiable wellness credential with a unique certificate number. Employers and clients can check the holder, credential title, and issue date in Therapy Council’s public register throughout the certificate’s four-year validity period.
What does a Therapy Council certification verify?
A Therapy Council certification verifies that the named learner completed the published programme and passed its graded assessment. The certificate carries the learner name, credential title, and a unique number entered in the public register, so an employer or client can confirm it online at any time, free and without an account.
What makes a Therapy Council certification credible?
Three things. Every programme is built as hands-on practice with real scenarios, so the training reflects actual work. Every certificate is assessment-gated: it is only issued after you pass a graded assessment at the end of the programme. And every credential stays publicly verifiable, so its value can be checked by any employer or client in seconds rather than taken on faith. Therapy Council is an independent certification body: we publish our standard openly and back every certificate with the register.
Who are these certifications for?
Practitioners adding a new modality to their work, educators and counsellors formalising skills they already use, and career-changers entering mental wellbeing work. Each programme starts from professional foundations, including the ethics and scope-of-practice boundaries that responsible practice depends on.
How does the assessment work?
Each programme ends with a written exam, marked automatically against a published pass mark, and the certificate is only issued on a pass. Every attempt draws a fresh set of questions from the bank, so a retake is a new paper rather than a second run at the same one. The applied activities and case work inside the programme are there to practise on; the exam is the graded part.
How long does certification take?
Programmes are fully self-paced and course access is lifetime from enrolment. Each programme publishes its estimated study hours before you enrol, so you can judge the commitment upfront and set your own pace. Progress is saved automatically, so you can pause and resume whenever life requires it.
Does my certificate expire?
No. Your certificate and its register entry stay up permanently, so an employer or client can confirm the credential and the date you earned it for as long as you need. The certificate also carries a four-year date, which marks how long it stands as current against the syllabus you were assessed on. Recertifying after that is optional: you sit the current version of the assessment and receive a certificate dated against the current curriculum, which is worth doing if the standard has moved on since you trained or a client wants a recent date. Course material you bought stays yours either way. Full terms are in our Certificate Validity and Renewal policy.
What if a programme is not right for me?
Every certification publishes its full curriculum before you enrol, so you can see exactly what you will learn. If it still turns out not to fit, we have a straightforward refund policy with the current terms published openly.
Related reading
- Managing workplace burnout
Burnout under ICD-11, and the interventions with evidence behind them.
- Workplace mental health support: a guide for HR
Referral boundaries and how to measure whether support is working.
- Career opportunities in corporate mental health
Where this work sits inside organisations, and who pays for it.

