Let your faith guide you. The Doctor of Education (EdD) in Pastoral Community Counseling program is designed to provide leaders within religious communities an opportunity for personal and professional development. You’ll enjoy an integrated curriculum that will prepare you to address individual and communal development ethically and responsibly. The program is ideal for ministers, priests, rabbis, and lay leaders, including hospital, hospice, prison, military chaplains, nurse practitioners, or counselors who have faith or spirituality as a cornerstone of their practice. This program may be be completed in approximately three years.