Course Overview
This course is for students who have already acquired Level 2 Counselling Skills and want to take the next step in training to become a counsellor, leading to a nationally regulated qualification awarded by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Awarding Body (CPCAB).
The course requires students to complete 90 hours guided learning and 106 hours self-directed learning (including written assignment, reading, listening to podcasts etc)
Overall Purpose and Aims of the Training
- For students who have already acquired Level 2 Counselling Skills and want to take the next step in training to become a counsellor
- Leads to a nationally regulated qualification awarded by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Awarding Body (CPCAB)
Entry Requirements
- Age 19
- Ability to translate intra-personal experience into language
- Able to benefit from self-development
- Emotional stability
- Evidence personal insight
- Ability to form a counselling relationship
- Awareness of difference and diversity
- Able to cope with course content
- Identify reasons for training beyond just personal development
- Be motivated towards developing as a counselling practitioner
Course Cost
£1,500 combined cost for both Level 2 & Level 3 (or £800 for Level 3 only).
Applications
Download the course application form here.
Email [email protected] for an application pack.
Download
Course Brochure (PDF)
Course Curriculum (PDF)
Dates
The course will be delivered on the following dates:
19 & 26 February 2024
4, 11 & 18 March 2024
8, 15, 22 & 29 April 2024
13 & 20 May 2024
3, 10, 17 & 24 June 2024
1, 8 & 15 July 2024
Course Objectives
• Prepare to work within an ethical framework for counselling
• Understand the counselling relationship
• Understand difference and diversity issues to develop empathetic understanding
• Work within a user-centred approach to counselling
• Use counselling theory to develop self-awareness in counselling practice
• Understand theories of counselling and mental health understanding
• Use feedback, reflection and supervision to support counselling studies