MA Counselling And Psychotherapy Practice

• Qualify as a Counselling and Psychotherapy Practitioner on this flexible Master's programme with a two-year clinical Diploma-level component
• Enjoy a contemporary curriculum delivered by a research centre of excellence
• Study a core model of person-centred and experiential practice, integrating other specific approaches
• Carry out novel research in your chosen field
• Benefit from excellent educational and professional training facilities, exceptionally supportive staff and a thriving student community

Counselling and Psychotherapy students come from a wide range of backgrounds in the voluntary, statutory, and commercial sectors. This creates a rich learning environment, enhancing the experience for everyone.

Our programme locates counselling and psychotherapy in its social, political, ecological, and economic context. It explores counselling through an intersectional lens and advocates anti-oppressive practice.

Integral to the course are considerations of power and prejudice, including those pertaining to class, disability, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

The programme is a professional training in Person-Centred Experiential Therapy. This includes Pre-Therapy, Focus-Oriented Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy. Students will be supported to meet the required competencies to offer online and phone counselling to clients. Students will be given an overview of other therapeutic models that are not practised in the course. This may include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Brief Solution-Focused Therapy (BSFT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Existential Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy.

The programme is delivered by practising therapists and supervisors who are registered with professional counselling and psychotherapy bodies, such as the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the National Counselling Society (NCS). You will learn to work with issues such as loss, bereavement, anxiety, trauma, stress, gender and sexuality, relationship diversity, GSRD, mental health issues, depression, suicidal ideation, boundaries and harm in therapy, and sexual abuse.