Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience Help Veterans and Military Families

18
Credit Hours
100% online, 8-week courses
Transfer in up to 50% of the degree total
Help Counsel Military Service Members and Their Families with Our Online Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience
You have a passion for improving mental health services for the men and women who serve this country. With our 100% online Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience, you can gain the knowledge and skills you need to identify and educate others about the mental, physical, social, and spiritual needs associated with military service.
In our military resilience graduate certificate program, you can learn how to assess and treat many forms of trauma so you can help veterans and their families cope with these challenges and lead healthy, fulfilling lives. Designed to equip you with military-specific counseling and mental health support tools, our online Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience can help prepare you to minister to veterans and their families with the restoring love of Christ.
Your officially conferred degree name will be Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience.






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Why Choose Liberty’s Online Military Resilience Certificate?
At Liberty University, our Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience offers you the quality education you need to help support military personnel and their families in a flexible and affordable format. Offered 100% online with no set login times, our graduate military resilience certificate program allows you to earn your certificate wherever God has called you to be.
You will study under professors who have real-world counseling and military service experience, allowing them to teach you practical skills you can use to assist military members and their families. Like you, we believe in pursuing excellence and integrity in everything we do. We’ve developed our online military resilience graduate certificate program to Train Champions for Christ — Champions who lead in their field with duty, honor, and biblical values.
What Will You Study in the Graduate Military Resilience Certificate?
Our online Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience can teach you how to mitigate the effects of post-traumatic stress, critical incident stress, and personal crises on individuals and families. In your military resilience graduate certificate program, you will examine the two primary transitions of military life, the challenges that recently deployed military members can encounter as they reintegrate into their civilian lives, and the transition from military to civilian careers.
Our online graduate military resilience certificate is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and expertise you need to assist veterans and their families throughout these critical life transitions.
Potential Career Opportunities
Our Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience can help you prepare for several career paths. Depending on your current knowledge, education level, and experience, there are many different positions that could benefit from our accredited certificate:
- Caseworker
- Chaplain
- Grief services counselor
- Outreach coordinator
The counseling skills that you gain from our certificate in military resilience can be used to help you assist military service members and their families who need counseling or resources to overcome the trauma and hardships they experience. Additionally, the credits earned in this certificate may be applied to our other degree programs in military resilience. Take the next step towards your personal and professional goals with a military resilience certificate from Liberty University.
Additional education or training may be required for some jobs or occupations. Conferral of a certificate does not guarantee job placement.
Required Courses
- CEFS 504 – Multicultural Counseling or CEFS 687 – Counseling Women
- CRIS 605 – Crisis and First Responder Training
- MILT 525 – Advanced Resilience for Leaders and Caregivers
- MILT 575 – Resilient Marriage and Family
- MILT 625 – Military Career and Community Transition
- MILT 675 – Advanced Military Mental and Behavior Health
Certificate Information
- This online certificate program falls under the School of Behavioral Sciences.
- View the Graduate Behavioral Sciences Course Guides (login required).
Certificate Completion Plan

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Tuition & Aid
Your success is our success, which is why we are committed to providing quality academics at an affordable tuition rate. While other colleges are increasing their tuition, we have frozen tuition rates for the majority of our undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs for the past 9 years – and counting.
Graduate Full Time | $565/Credit |
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Graduate Part Time | $615/Credit |
Military Graduate | $275/Credit |
Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.
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Admission Information for Our Online Graduate Certificate in Military Resilience Program
Admission Requirements
- Apply online or over the phone with an admissions counselor by calling (800) 424-9596.
- A non-refundable, non-transferable $50 application fee will be posted on the current application upon enrollment (waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required).
- Send official college transcripts (mailed as sealed, unopened copies or sent via a direct electronic transcript system). A regionally or nationally accredited bachelor’s degree with at least a 2.25 GPA is required for admission in good standing. Applicants who have earned a master’s degree or at least 12 graduate credits from an accredited institution will be assessed on the basis of the master’s-level degree work.
- Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.
Transcript Policies
Official College Transcript Policy
An acceptable official college transcript is one that has been issued directly from the institution and is in a sealed envelope. If you have one in your possession, it must meet the same requirements. If your previous institution offers electronic official transcript processing, they can send the document directly to luoverify@liberty.edu.
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Military
Liberty University is dedicated to providing world-class educational experiences to military students across the globe.
Who May Qualify?
- Active Duty
- Reserve/National Guard
- Veterans/Retirees
- Spouses of Service Members and Veterans/Retirees
- Current Department of Defense Employees
Available Benefits:
- Tuition discounts – $275 per credit hour for graduate courses
- Additional discount for veterans who serve in a civilian capacity as a First Responder (less than $625 per course)*
- 8-week courses, 8 different start dates each year, and no set login times (may exclude certain courses such as practicums, internships, or field experiences)
*Not applicable to certificates.
Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average salary for mental health counselors?
Find the median annual salary for mental health counselors at the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, here.
*Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors, 2020 (viewed online June 22 , 2021). Cited projections may not reflect local and/or short-term economic or job conditions and do not guarantee actual job growth.
How long does it take to complete this certificate?
You can complete our military resilience graduate certificate online in 18 credit hours.
Can this certificate be rolled into a master's program?
When you complete this graduate certificate, you can apply the credits you earn to our related master’s in interdisciplinary studies.
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