This course being offered online provides a foundational orientation to pastoral counselling as a practice of ministry and as a theological bridge discipline connecting ministry; pastoral care and counselling. The course examines and critiques the historical and cultural contexts that formed pastoral counseling; explore contemporary, multicultural expressions and practices of pastoral counseling; and develop a beginning set of theological and counseling resources to guide practice and anchor a practical bridge between ministry; pastoral care, pastoral counseling; crisis counseling; grief; marriage and family therapy.  The course attends to parish counseling; pastoral care and counseling by marriage and family therapist specialists.