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PG Dip Counselling and Psychotherapy

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    PgDip: 2 years part-time

Course Description

If you want to develop your skills as a counsellor, then our course provides an encouraging learning community to help your skills grow to the highest level. We’ll teach you how to work with a wide range of client issues in a professional and reflective way, exploring the impact of research on the change process. Working with like-minded peers and tutors, we encourage you to develop your capacity for giving and receiving open and constructive feedback.

Entry Requirements

1st or 2nd class honours degree.

You will need to have already completed a minimum of 30 hours of counselling skills training and be deemed to have a level of counselling ability that would enable you to go out on placement in the first semester.

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Fees

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/student-finance/postgraduate/

Student Destinations

Your qualification will help gain work in a variety of settings including schools, the NHS and voluntary agencies. The skills you learn will be useful in a wide variety of work outside of therapy, with the research techniques you gain preparing you for a higher level course (e.g. PhD) should you be interested.

Module Details

Year one

Compulsory modules

  • Theory and Practice 1
  • Theory and Practice 2
  • Personal and Professional Development 1

Year two

Compulsory modules

  • Personal and Professional Development 2
  • Attachment and Adversity
  • Understanding Therapeutic Diversity

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