Our Courses

This course has been developed for people who use counselling skills in their work or envisage incorporating them into their work and for people who want to work towards a full qualification in counselling. It is also suitable for people who may wish to gain skills for use in everyday life.

It is designed for those people who wish to learn and to practise a range of
counselling skills. Candidates are likely to fall into two main groups: those wishing to enhance their functional role by acquiring proficiency across the range of counselling skills.

Counselling skills have proved to be effective in many work roles where interactions between people occur; and those who wish to progress to further training and qualify as counsellors.

This is a modular course and consists firstly of a Unit examining key Humanistic and Psychodynamic theory and practice, (75 hours) followed by a 100-hour CBT module, which covers a range of key theorists and models. The final Unit of 75 hours covers TA and Inner Child work, incorporating the work of several important figures. The CBT module is generally the specialist theory for the placement work, which commences in the latter half of the second module.

Therefore the Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (VCTS) is suitable for any individual whose qualification goal is to achieve professional status in counselling.

Level 4 equivalent, 300 guided learning hours.

The Practitioner Diploma in CBT has been developed specifically to provide the final training for candidates whose ultimate qualification goal is to achieve Professional Status as a Therapeutic Counsellor.

It provides 125 hours of classroom training which, along with previous courses taken, provides the 450 training hours needed for the training element of BACP accreditation.

Equal time is given throughout the course to theoretical and practical work including self-development.

The first part of the course looks at a range of presenting problems and includes brain functions; recognizing personality disorders and psychosis; and appropriate treatments and actions for these; drug- and alcohol-related problems and their treatment, including Motivational Interviewing and Twelve Step Programmes.

This is followed by an analysis of relationship problems, which includes relationship counselling and working with families and children, various types of group therapy and a six-week experiential CBT group.

In the final term, students explore their counselling practice as well as the theory and practice of clinical supervision, ethical dilemmas and future career planning. The emphasis of the course is the integration of theory with practice and students are required to complete a minimum of 50 hours of supervised counselling in an approved placement.

For more information or if you have any questions, give us a call on;

01702 354118 or email pfspsychologist@gmail.com