Top up your training to a full BA (Hons) and engage in practical research, with this one-year course for qualified counsellors and psychotherapists.
Develop your skills, knowledge and clinical practice with a choice of two specialist routes: Counselling Adults or Counselling Children and Young People.
Counselling Adults: this is an opportunity to develop your understanding of therapeutic work with adults, with a specific focus on sexual issues in therapy. It includes a module introducing you to the emerging area of digital media in therapy.
Counselling Children & Young People: this route meets a number of the BACP Competences for working with young people (2014). It will help you to develop a clinical specialism, with a specific focus on working with creative media.
Teaching times are one day per week, 9.30am–5.30pm. Depending on student numbers, an alternative ½ day per week attendance pattern may be offered. Please enquire with Renew Counselling on 01245 264348.
Please note: this course is open to UK applicants only, as it is a work-based course.
This course will help build your clinical experience and interests, and potentially develop areas of clinical specialism.
With the Adult pathway you’ll gain knowledge of digital media in therapy, and develop your understanding of issues such as sex, sexuality and addiction.
With the Children and Young People pathway you’ll develop practical skills in working therapeutically with creative materials. As it meets a number of BACP Competences for humanistic counselling with young people (2014), this pathway can help you develop this area as a clinical specialism.
Carrying out research can also open up new directions in your career and help you develop skills that are attractive to employers.
Explore person-centred theory in depth and develop your research skills across the course of one year.
As well as exploring person-centred theory and counselling with adults or children and young people, you'll develop, present and peer review a seminar paper. You’ll also form study and supervision groups to support your learning.
You’ll also develop a fundamental understanding of research in counselling and psychotherapy. This prepares you for the research project and dissertation you'll complete in your final semester.
Modules are subject to change and availability, and may vary by location. If you have the choice of optional modules, these are indicated with a *.
Benefit from the support of a high-quality counselling and therapy service.
While studying, you'll be based at Renew Counselling in the centre of Chelmsford.