This is an ideal course if you work in a helping role, interested in enhancing your people and communication skills and/or if you wish to progress to becoming a qualified counsellor.
This certificate has been created to enable you to develop knowledge and understanding of counselling by exploring the professional frameworks and established codes of conducts required in the personal qualities and professional competencies of counsellors.
You will study the foundations of counselling and the underpinning theories associated with it. This qualification provides a basic understanding of the three main areas of counselling theory and how they relate to current practice.
You will also begin to acquire practical skills in developing, maintaining and concluding a basic counselling session; this will allow you to experience professional practice within the boundaries of an ethical framework.
The course is part time and runs for 3 hours a week over 24 weeks