Holmes Training Academy™ · Founded by Professor Cheryll Holmes
Holmes Training Academy prepares clinicians, counselors, pastors, and executives to practice at the highest professional standard — advanced certification built where science and theology converge, taught with the rigor of a graduate institution and the care of a founder who still practices.
Professor Cheryll Holmes, PhD, PsyD, MDR
Founder & President
“Excellence is not a posture. It is preparation — disciplined, evidence-led, and equal to the lives entrusted to your care.”
A welcome from the Founder
Our Mission
To prepare clinicians, counselors, pastors, and executives to serve at the highest professional standard — through certification built where science and theology converge.
Our Vision
A generation of practitioners whose work can be defended in scholarship, trusted in practice, and measured in the lives it restores.
“Where Science and Theology Converge to Transform Lives.”
A Welcome from the Founder
Founder & President, Holmes Training Academy
The Holmes Training Academy was founded on a conviction that has not changed: the work of relationships deserves the same rigor, evidence, and care we expect of medicine and law.
Every certification on this campus is built where science and theology converge — scholarship that can be defended, and practice that can be trusted with a human life.
Whether you arrive as a clinician, a pastor, an executive, or a couple seeking help, you are welcome here. Study carefully. Serve faithfully.
Professor Cheryll Holmes, PhD, PsyD, MDR
Founder & President
Institutional Impact
Since 2017, Holmes Training Academy has equipped more than 2,068 professionals to serve with excellence, integrity, scholarship, and purpose.
Nearly a decade of equipping professionals who transform lives.
Graduates of the Holmes Training Academy serve marriages, families, congregations, and organizations across the United States and abroad.
Graduates now serving individuals, couples, families, churches, organizations, and communities through evidence-based, faith-aligned professional practice.
Preparing professionals whose work changes lives.
Preparing helping professionals through scholarship, mentorship, and practical application.
Certified Relationship Strategist™ Certified Relationship Strategist™ Level II: Clinical Residency Certified Individual Counseling Specialist™
Now serving students through a permanent digital learning environment designed for lifelong professional growth.
The Academy continues to grow through the professionals it prepares and the community it serves.
Measured from midnight, campus time.
Every number represents a professional preparing to change someone's life.
Our graduates do more than earn certifications. They strengthen marriages, restore families, develop leaders, and transform communities.
Institutional Divisions
Academy, Clinic, Leadership, Publishing, Media, Speaking
Professional Certifications
Relationship, residency, and individual counseling pathways
Weeks of Guided Study
Live instruction, supervision, and applied practice
Standard of Practice
Evidence over opinion. Compassion without sentimentality.
The Administration Building
Meet the professionals who guide students from their first inquiry through graduation.
Office of Admissions
Senior Admissions Advisor
Helping prospective students choose the right educational path.
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Student Success Center
Director of Student Success
Supporting enrolled students from orientation through graduation.
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Office of the Registrar
Registrar
Maintaining and confirming the official institutional record — enrollment, section placement, program standing, and completion.
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Financial Services
Tuition & Student Accounts
Guiding students through tuition, payment plans, balances, and refunds.
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Library Services
Knowledge & Research Support
Helping students locate the scholarship their work depends upon.
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Career Services
Professional Practice & Placement
Preparing graduates to carry their credential into professional practice.
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Certification Office
Credentialing & Verification
Issuing, verifying, and maintaining the standing of Holmes credentials.
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Faculty Advising
Academic Guidance
Advising students on coursework, assignments, and academic judgment.
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Academic Technology
Campus Systems Support
Making certain the classroom, campus, and coursework work as they should.
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Certification Pathways
Each pathway carries the same clinical, theological, and relational scholarship into a distinct field of service.
Foundational certification in the Holmes relational framework for counselors, coaches, and ministry leaders.
Review the pathwaySupervised residency for practitioners advancing into complex and high-acuity relational work.
Review the pathwayBuilt on the Holmes Human Functioning Model™ for practitioners serving individuals.
Review the pathwayThe Faculty
Clinical & Theological Scholarship
Faculty are practitioners first — clinicians, counselors, and scholars who teach from work they still do.
Residency Instruction
Level II residency is taught under supervision, with case review and formative feedback at every stage.
Academic Standards
Curriculum, rubrics, and competencies are reviewed against a single institutional standard before publication.
Graduate Outcomes
“The rigor changed how I sit with couples. I no longer improvise — I practice from a framework I can defend.”
“This is graduate-level formation, not a course. It asked more of me, and it gave more back.”
Holmes Professional Network™
Graduates in verified good standing are listed in the official professional network of The Holmes Organization.
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