Welcome to Pastoral Care Training & Praxis, Inc.
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)
The next extended, community based training unit begins
January 8, 2026
This unit is offered completely online and runs for 20 weeks. It meets four hours each week on Thursday evenings and requires individual sessions with the supervisor on a regular schedule. Also, the work of the unit requires interns to complete 15 hours of clinical work (client contact) with clients, patients, etc. each week.
The cost of the program is $95.00 for the application interview, and $1200 for the program.
Contact Supervisor Robert L. Griffin, M.DIv., Psy.D. Phone: 404-444-8248 Email: [email protected]
The Unit of Training is Certified by the
College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP)
CPSP is a theologically based certifying and accrediting covenant community.
Community based CPE is Clinical Pastoral Education located in the indigenous community. All efforts are made to tailor the learning experience to fit the special needs of the specific context where ministry is done.
CPE is education for ministry at the graduate theological level and credit can be applied to on-going theological education with specific seminaries and graduate schools for clergy, laity, and professionals in the care-giving professions
Participants are supervised in regular group gatherings and in individual consultation.
CPE makes extensive use of the reflective learning process:
-- Experiential learning with actual encounter with clients, patients, congregants.
-- Contemplation: an intern thinks about his/her experience and learns from it.
-- Reflection: there is reflection prior to, during and following the experience and shared with peers for feedback.
-- It is postulated this might be the best way to learn pragmatic knowledge.
(CPSP is a theological training and certifying organization which has affiliate membership with the Association of Theological Schools and is a full member of the Coalition on Ministry in Specialized Settings (COMISS))
Website: www.cpsp.com
The Pastoral Care Training & Praxis organization is dedicated to the excellence of pastoral ministry including pastoral care and counseling.
The programs of Pastoral Care Practice, Certified units of Clinical Pastoral Education and Pastoral Psychotherapy enable care givers to develop a unique form of ministry and education. The respect of a Care Giver's person and healing, change, growth, development and unique integration of personal and professional ministry are central to PCT&P's mission.
Pastoral care and counseling seeks to empower growth toward wholeness in all of the six interdependent aspects of a person's life:
Enlivening one's mind
Revitalizing one's body'
Renewing and enriching one's intimate relationships
Deepening one's relationship with nature and the biosphere
Growth in relation to the significant institutions in one life
Deepening and vitalizing one's relationship with God
Dr. Robert L. Griffin, M.Div., Psy.D. CPSP, BCC, CPE Supervisor, Director The Rev. Hulon Kemp, M.Div., CPSP, Supervisor in Training The Rev. Dr. John Walker, M.Div., D.Min. The Rev. Mindy Littlejohn, M.A., CPSP, BCC, CPE Supervisor Ruth Rucker, RN
Robert L. Griffin, M.Div., Psy.D. (Director) is a Diplomate Supervision and Psychotherapy with the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy, a Certified Family Life Educator, a retied U.S. Army Chaplain and retired member of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta.
"While we can't change difficult situations of the past, we can work together to better