Primary Mental Health Care

This course will develop your knowledge, skills and competencies to work as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner in an NHS Talking Therapies Service.

You will learn to carry out problem-focused assessments with people experiencing common mental health problems, developing your engagement and interpersonal competencies to ensure you are patient-centred.

You will learn how to offer high-quality, evidence-based low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy interventions and contribute to service developments that promote socially inclusive mental health care for individuals, families and communities.

Our course is directly relevant to clinical practice and uses a bio-psychosocial framework so you can develop knowledge and skills in evidence-based interventions delivered through a range of methods (such as face-to-face, telephone, computerised).

You will benefit from an enriching and enjoyable learning experience, delivered by a programme team of clinicians and researchers who have practical expertise in low intensity working.

Please note: the PGCert can be completed as a graduate certificate and also meets national competencies for becoming a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. Please contact us about completing the qualification at graduate level.

For trainees on the 2 year route, there is an option to complete the programme in 18 months should you meet the requirements.

PhD with integrated master's

If you're planning to undertake a PhD after your master's, our Integrated PhD programme will enable you to combine your postgraduate taught course with a related PhD project in biology, medicine or health. You can also visit this page for examples of projects related to integrated master's courses.