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Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor

Online Certification  ·  10 Week  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CORD2)

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Executive Summary

Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor (CORD2) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing.

This 10 Week programme is structured around recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CORD2 holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor
Acronym
CORD2
Category
Counselling & Coaching
Level
Intermediate
Duration
10 Week
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 399
Live Virtual
USD 599
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Counsellors and Therapists
  • Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners
  • Social and Community Workers
  • Helping-Profession Practitioners
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex counselling functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement counselling systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to counselling
Global Employability
Qualify for counselling roles across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Work and Psychological Wellbeing
✦Work-Life Integration
✦Workplace Relationship Challenges
✦Return-to-Work Counselling
✦Job Satisfaction and Meaning
✦Occupational Wellness Referrals
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

The full programme, module by module.

Core CurriculumModules 1–20 · specific to Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor · module 20 is the capstone
1
Occupational Wellness Foundations
Occupational diseases and prevention · Occupational health, exposure and health surveillance · Occupational disease: the harms that appear years later · Building an occupational health programme
2
Work and Psychological Wellbeing
Wellbeing at work and in life · Wellbeing and the biopsychosocial model · Outcome monitoring in therapeutic work · Career counselling and guidance as a therapeutic practice
3
Occupational Stress Assessment
Organisational maturity, assessment and improvement programmes · Security assessment, vulnerability management and remediation · Assessment and formulation: understanding before intervening · Medicines and clinical supplies management
4
Workplace Adjustment Counselling
Life transitions: adjustment, loss and meaning · History and scope of counselling and coaching · Counselling micro-skills: reflecting, paraphrasing and summarising · Formulation-driven therapy
5
Work-Life Integration
API design and integration · Work-life integration · Work-life integration: boundaries, capacity and saying no · Working with children, young people and their families
6
Occupational Identity
Identity, access management and the zero-trust shift · Training and competence · Threat assessment and analysis · Risk and vulnerability assessment
7
Career and Wellbeing Interaction
Designing an intervention or programme · Reflective practice and supervision · Outcome measurement and review · Outcome measurement and monitoring
8
Workplace Relationship Challenges
Cultural competence in addiction · Boundaries and self-care · Project management maturity assessment · Data privacy, consent and compliance
9
Burnout Prevention
Community-based protection and prevention · Stress, resilience and burnout prevention · Relationship management and retention · Sustaining wellbeing
10
Workplace Resilience
Continuity, disruption and organisational resilience · Resilience: recovery, adaptability and sustainable performance · Chair and chief executive: the relationship that shapes the board · Couples counselling approaches
11
Return-to-Work Counselling
Return-to-work and rehabilitation · Community entry, mapping and building the relationship · Designing engaging online sessions · Energy and pacing online
12
Work Disability Adjustment
Trauma-informed delivery and its limits · Practitioner wellbeing and vicarious trauma · Referral, multi-agency work and the client pathway · Customer data, consent and privacy in service
13
Occupational Transition Support
Competency-based assessment · Accreditation and certification · Reflective practice and journaling · Disaster risk assessment: hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity
14
Job Satisfaction and Meaning
Maturity and capability assessment · Consent, rights and data subject requests · Analysis and diagnostic assessment · Regulatory impact assessment
15
Workplace Conflict and Wellbeing
Workplace wellbeing and mental health · Conflict types, styles and workplace mediation · Assessment centres, tests and work samples · HR risk, ethics and the confidentiality boundary
16
Employee Wellbeing Planning
Demand planning, forecasting and the distortion of signals · Employment relationship and the psychological contract · Assessment design for learning: testing what was meant to be learned · Risk and return: the relationship every investment decision rests on
17
Occupational Wellness Referrals
Assessment that measures capability · Curriculum, qualifications and accreditation · Designing an OD intervention · Confidentiality and discretion in administrative work
18
Workplace Wellness Assessment
Threat and risk assessment · Threat identification and assessment · Vulnerability assessment and surveys · Intelligence-led risk assessment
19
Occupational Wellbeing Evaluation
Evaluation design: attribution, comparison and honest claims · Sustainability reporting: standards, boundaries and what gets disclosed · One-to-ones: the recurring conversation that carries the relationship · Planning a session: structure, timing and flow
20
Occupational Wellness Counselling Project
Assessment and case formulation · Evidence-based practice · Case formulation and hypotheses · Risk assessment and safety planning
Professional ElectivesModules 21–30 · common to all GLI certifications · broaden your professional range
21
Strategic Communication and Executive Presentation
Vision, purpose and translating direction into work · Audience-centred communication and message structure · Executive leadership: the board interface and enterprise stewardship · Persuasive structure: framing, evidence and the ask
22
Leadership and Team Effectiveness
Leadership identity, style and the limits of style · Leadership assessment, feedback and continuous self-review · What critical reasoning is and what it is not · Situational and adaptive leadership
23
Analytical Thinking and Evidence-Based Reasoning
Creativity and critical-thinking development · Analytical techniques and bias · Evidence-based improvement · Problem framing: symptoms, definition and scope
24
Professional Decision-Making
Managerial decision-making, bias and decision rights · Escalation and decision-making · Decision support: briefs, options and judgement under pressure · Decision frameworks: criteria, weighting and trade-offs
25
Negotiation, Influence and Stakeholder Management
Negotiation preparation: interests, options and the walk-away · Power, followership and organisational politics · Negotiation: preparation, interests and value creation · Concessions, anchoring and the shape of a bargain
26
Project and Execution Management
Proposals, bids and the business case · Project roles and the project manager · Developing the project business case · Planning, scheduling and personal workflow systems
27
Financial Literacy for Professionals
Financial reporting standards and their application · Financial management for the operating manager · Liquidity, funding and balance sheet management · Management accounting: costing, budgeting and decision support
28
Digital Skills, AI and Technology for Professionals
Digital workplace, collaboration and user support · Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools · Tools for interaction and collaboration · Working with data: quality, interpretation and honest presentation
29
Ethics, Governance and Professional Accountability
Ethical leadership: integrity, tolerated behaviour and moral courage · Ethics, conduct and speaking up · Business development risk, ethics and integrity · AI for managers: adoption, oversight and governance
30
Personal Effectiveness, Productivity and Career Growth
Emotional competence: awareness, regulation and expression · Self-awareness, strengths and the accuracy of self-image · Emotional intelligence and self-regulation · Priority: outcomes, importance and the urgency trap

Every module opens in the learning portal with its full lesson set, worked examples, further reading and video masterclasses. 30 modules · 150 lessons.

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor principles aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards
  • Apply evidence-based methods to improve counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing
  • Master counselling theories, models and approaches and assessment, case formulation and treatment planning
  • Apply therapeutic skills, alliance and communication and specialised populations and presenting concerns in real-world settings
  • Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
  • Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
  • Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
  • Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in counselling
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CORD2 certification?

The Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor is a professional certification awarded by the Global Leadership Institute. It covers 20 core modules specific to Occupational and Wellness Counsellor, culminating in the capstone “Occupational Wellness Counselling Project”, plus 10 professional elective modules common to all GLI certifications. Candidates study through the online portal, submit the capstone project and sit a final examination; those who pass receive a verifiable certificate carrying a unique certificate ID.

Who should enrol in the CORD2?

This certification is ideal for Counsellors and Therapists, Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners, Social and Community Workers and Helping-Profession Practitioners, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CORD2 certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CORD2 internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CORD2 certification?

The Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 399 and Live Virtual at USD 599. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CORD2 certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CORD2?

The Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CORD2?

The Certified Occupational and Wellness Counsellor carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CORD2 while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CORD2?

Graduates progress towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles. The CORD2 strengthens your expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing and positions you for advancement across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

“

The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Clinical Lead
Private Sector
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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

Senior Counsellor
NGO Sector
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I earned my CORD2 while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Wellbeing Programme Manager
Government
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