A team of experts from the National Universities Commission (NUC), led by the Acting Executive Secretary, Dr Chris Maiyaki, was hosted on Friday, September 6, 2024, by the management staff of the Psycho-Spiritual Institute of Lux Terra Leadership Foundation and representatives of Veritas University, Abuja.

The visit was the final stage in the agency’s due diligence process for the legal recognition and approval of the institute offering two postgraduate programmes in Nigeria.

The programmes are a postgraduate diploma in Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Healing and a Master of Arts in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy.

Earlier in April 2024, the institute signed an affiliation agreement with Veritas University, Abuja, to award the degrees in Nigeria.

The Psycho-Spiritual Institute’s first campus was established in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2013 and affiliated with the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in 2014.

The Psycho-Spiritual Therapy programme was subsequently accredited by the Kenyan Commission for University Education (CUE).

In its 11 years of existence, the institute has trained over 150 experts from up to 27 different African countries in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy.

With this new development, the Abuja campus will join the Nairobi campus in training and equipping many humanitarian service professionals, religious leaders, and volunteers.

It will also help facilitate integral healing, wholeness, growth and transformation in the many individuals, families and groups across the continent of Africa who suffer from psycho-trauma, depression, confusion, burn-out, midlife crisis, family dysfunction, grieving disorders, addictive disorders, including addiction to alcohol and psycho-active substances, and suicide ideation.

Graduates of the Psycho-Spiritual Therapy programme will be equipped to work as counsellors and chaplains in formation houses, hospitals, hospices, drug rehabilitation centres, correctional centres, schools, colleges, and universities.