Clinical Training Opportunities
The Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee, Inc. (PCCT), an Approved Training Program of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, provides these training opportunities:

1. The Pastoral Care Specialist Training Program 
2. The Advanced Practitioner Training Program

The Pastoral Care Specialist Training Program, at a minimum, is a seventy-seven contact hour program that meets in four hour blocks weekly between August and December, exclusive of holidays. Didactic seminars, case conferences, and peer group experiences are utilized to prepare participants to apply for membership in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors at the Pastoral Care Specialist level.

• Pastoral Care Specialist Brochure
• Pastoral Care Specialist Application Form
• Pastoral Care Specialist Application eForm

The Advanced Practitioner Training Program (Application) is designed for licensed or certified therapists who seek formation experiences which promote professional integration and skill development at the interface of spirituality and intrapsychic and interpersonal processes. This three-trimester interdisciplinary program is composed of clinical case group supervision and these three semester hour courses: (1) "Theological Method and Clinical Pastoral Therapy"; (2) "Pastoral Diagnosis and Clinical Pastoral Therapy; and (3) "When Religion Gets Sick".

Advanced Practitioners (Application) interested in becoming a certified clinical supervisior with one or more cognate groups may enroll in The Clinical Supervision Training Program. This program is focused on the participants' formation of a personal theory of clinical supervision and clinical supervisory skill development. During the first trimester participants take the forty-five contact hour course "Clinical Supervision: Constructs and Theory Formulation" as well as thirty contact hours in the "Supervision of Clinical Supervision Practicum". The "Supervisor of Clinical Supervision Practicum" is lengthened to forty-five contact hours in the second trimester.

Persons who are interested in learning more about these training opportunities or who wish to receive program materials may contact:

Director of Training Programs
Pastoral Counseling Center of Tennessee, Inc.
100 Vine Court,
Nashville TN 37205-2052
(615) 383-2115
or email: Training@PCCTinc.org

Annual Report
	Download an application:
		Mail-in Form (Print this form and mail it in. Instructions are at the bottom of the application.)
		Electronic Form (Fill out this form on your computer. Instructions on submitting this form are at the bottom of the application. You must have Microsoft Word to use this form.)