Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 years
Discover how integrative counselling can support personal growth, relational depth and professional development. The Postgraduate Diploma / MSc Integrative Counselling at Birmingham Newman University offers a reflective and practice-based route into the counselling profession.
Grounded in relational and person-centred values, the course introduces two core therapeutic approaches: Gestalt and Psychodynamic. You will be supported in developing a flexible and responsive framework that meets the needs of diverse clients. The programme combines academic learning, clinical experience and personal development within a collaborative and inclusive environment.
You must have a 1st degree in any subject (minimum 2:2 or equivalent) and level 3 or 4 certificate in counselling skills with experience of having used skills in a workplace or voluntary setting. Successful admission onto the programme is also dependent upon demonstrating your suitability to undertake clinical training at interview. It may be possible in some cases for you to enter the programme without the Level 3 certificate where you can demonstrate in the application that you have acquired the specific competencies outlined in the BACP Counselling Skills Competency Framework either through an equivalent training programme or though practical experience in a voluntary or workplace setting.
This course supports your development as a reflective and capable practitioner. It encourages self-awareness, critical thinking and the formation of a strong professional identity. Whether you are preparing for independent practice, working in public or voluntary services or planning further academic study, you will graduate with the knowledge, values and tools needed to contribute to the field of counselling. The programme is designed to help you grow into a confident and responsive professional, ready to meet the needs of diverse communities.
Mental health perspectives and working with complexity
Theoretical perspectives (1)
Professional practice
Ethical, professional and contextual issues
Theoretical perspectives (2)
Research in counselling
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