Department of Ecopsychology & Pastoral Studies
The goal of this department is two-fold: (a) to provide essential counselor training for all students pursuing ordination who wish to obtain the subspecialty certification in pastoral care and (b) to provide students with more formal training in Ecopsychology, an ecologically and spiritually whole system of psychology. This latter degree program is designed to empower religious leaders with a formal ecocentric mode of psychology to enhance traditional pastoral counselor skills and also their critical thinking about human/Nature relationships and the underlying psychological architecture of religion and society.
