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 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 including CPCAB registration and certificate (this is the cost for both Level 2 and Level 3).
If you wish to complete Level 3 only, the cost is £800.
Applications
Download the course application form for Level 2/3 here.
Email [email protected] for an application pack.
Download
Level 2/3 Course Curriculum (PDF)
Student Feedback (PDF)
Dates
The Level 3 Course will be delivered on the following dates:
Level 3 Course Dates
30 January 2023
6/13/27 – February
6/13/20/27 – March 2023
17/24 – April 2023
8/15/22 – May 2023
5/12/19/26 – June 2023
3 July 2023
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