Graduate Diploma Psychodynamic Counselling

About the course
Are you interested in how people develop and how they relate to each other, both personally and in organisations? Do you want to make a start on pursuing a training to work therapeutically with children and adolescents/adults?
Taught at our Colchester Campus, this course offers a grounding in psychodynamic theory and its applications

It can be pursued in its own right if you're interested in the psychodynamic approach but also constitutes the first year of our Grad Dip/MA training in Psychodynamic Counselling (if you have taken our FdA/BA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations (TCTO) course you can enter the MA direct)


If you're a psychology graduate, this course is the ideal next step if you wish to progress in the field of psychodynamic counselling

It also provides a route to a counselling and psychotherapy qualification for professionals, such as teachers, social workers, nurses and care workers


It is not possible to study via distance learning on this course


Our expert staff
Our Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies is internationally recognised as one of the leading centres for work that focuses on the role of the unconscious mind in mental health, as well as in culture and society generally

Our research and teaching is deeply grounded in knowledge deriving from clinical practice, to which our highest standards of academic thinking are then applied


The Centre consistently achieves top ten rankings in the UK's research assessments, most recently in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework