Advanced Certificate in Theology for Biblical Counselling
Theology and Secular Psychology
with Todd Styrd
The Theology and Secular Psychology course explores how Christian theology engages with modern psychological theories and practices.
Next course:
TSP Spring 2027
Registration opens 5 Oct until 16 November for the Spring 2027 courses
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What to expect
COURSE WORK
The Theology and Secular Psychology course explores how Christian theology engages with modern psychological theories and practices. It equips students to thoughtfully evaluate secular psychologies—examining their assumptions, methods, and insights—through a biblical framework.
Students learn to understand and interpret psychological observations while also assessing their underlying worldviews. The course emphasises developing a distinctly Christian perspective on human nature, suffering, and change, and situates biblical counselling within the broader mental health and cultural context.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Develop critical thinking and communication skills for engaging contemporary psychological theories and therapies
- Learn to understand and evaluate psychologists’ observations, theories, and practices with humility and discernment
- Reinterpret psychological insights through a redemptive, theological framework
- Gain clarity on how biblical counselling relates to the wider mental health field and cultural context
- Describe and assess the philosophical and epistemological foundations of psychology from a biblical worldview
- Evaluate psychological research and practice through both scientific and theological lenses
Key facts
Date of next course:
TSP Spring 2027 commences 4th January 2027
Registration window: 5 October – 16th November
Course length:
10 weeks of study with one week mid term break
Workload:
10-12 hours study per week
Advanced Certificate in Theology for Biblical Counselling
The courses in the Advanced Certificate in Theology for Biblical Counselling will deepen students’ theological understanding of people and their problems. Courses will include CCEF’s Applied Theology of the Person, and Theology and Secular Psychology and a new BCUK course, Theology for Counselling.
The Registration window for TSP spring 2027,
opens 5th October until 16th November 2026.
Meet your teacher
Todd Styrd is a faculty member and the counseling coordinator at CCEF, where he has served since 2005. He holds a doctor of psychology from Immaculata University and a master of divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary. He has experience as a hospital chaplain, crisis worker, and university counselor. He has written a minibook entitled Schizophrenia: A Compassionate Approach.
