Our Courses

Course Overview | Undergraduate Courses: | Counselling Skills | Foundation Access | BSc (Hons) in Counselling | Diploma in Supervision | Postgraduate Courses: | Gestalt | Integrative | Person-Centred | Cognitive | Supervision | Workshops | Information Days | Fees |

Undergraduate Courses

Counselling Skills

A ten week programme designed to give trainees basic skills that can be used in every day life or as a taster to longer term training at the Institute. This course is accredited by ABC and offers a Level 2 qualification.

Foundation Access

6 months part-time
Designed for those wanting an access course before undertaking a longer programme, and for those who wish to move onto the BSc or Masters programme but who need to enhance their study experience in preparation for this.

BSc (Hons) in Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP Accredited)

3 years full-time
BSc (Hons) in Counselling and Psychotherapy has been validated recently by Coventry University and accredited by BACP. This course has evolved from our BACP accredited Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. The course is delivered in 8 x 3 day workshops (Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays). 24 Training Days in total. This course adopts a Humanistic and Integrative approach that draws on contemporary theories that implement and promote a therapeutic relationship.

Diploma in Clinical Supervision

1 year part-time
Training for those wishing to become clinical supervisors: as professionals in counselling/ psychotherapy/the helping professions - in the voluntary, public or private sectors
The programme examines the various different models of supervision, and explores all aspects of the supervisory relationship.

all our courses...

...are designed to be managed alongside current occupations.
...have a maximum of 26 training days a year.

Are all suitable for those who:

• Want to train to become professional psychotherapists and counsellors or
• Want to develop the counselling or psychotherapy component in their current work and/or
• Want to make a serious commitment to furthering their own self-development

Each of our courses is unique and yet they share at their core similar values and ideas. These are:

• The relationship between therapist and client (and trainer and trainee) is a core part of therapeutic healing and growth work.
• The client has an inner sense of what is right for them. Part of the job of the therapist is to help the client to learn to listen to their inner sense
• People have an innate capacity to grow and to change, to fulfil their potential.
• People are ultimately responsible for their own lives.
• People are valued regardless of race, gender, age, disability, religion or sexual orientation.
• Patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour are formed early in life and can become fixed in ways that are not always helpful to us, restricting our choice and our freedom. The therapeutic process is about regaining both of these.
• Awareness - knowing ourselves - is an important aspect of regaining freedom and choice.