Therapeutic Counselling (Top-Up)

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Enhance your professional development If you’re a counsellor looking to top-up your qualification to an honours degree, this course will enrich your professional development and practice. You could also use it as a steppingstone to master’s-level study.

Your learning experience You’ll shape and invigorate your debates through online discussions with other qualified counsellors as you share knowledge and expertise. Networking with your peers will enable you to potentially develop entrepreneurial ventures and partnerships.

You’ll boost your expertise with your final project module, as you develop and carry out your own research project.

Teaching expertise Your learning will be facilitated by lecturers from a wide range of backgrounds, including:

Our teaching team has worked with person-centred, integrative, psychodynamic and humanistic approaches. They’ll help inform your course content and bring a vast array of experience and insight via recorded lectures, guided reflective exercises, guided reading and live online sessions. The group sessions in the Group Therapies module and dissertation supervision session require mandatory live online attendance. Additional drop-in sessions and workshops are optional.

You’ll focus on widening your knowledge and experience in theories of:

Shape your identity By the end of your course, you’ll have shaped and strengthened your understanding of counselling and developed your identity as a counsellor. You’ll also feel confident in seeking more opportunities to deliver counselling in diverse settings and communities.

Why study Therapeutic Counselling via distance learning at Leeds Beckett University...