MA Psychodynamic Counselling

About the course
Do you want to pursue further training as a psychodynamic counsellor? Are you looking to broaden and deepen your practice?
Taught at our Colchester Campus, this course offers a professional qualification to work therapeutically with children and adolescents

You will gain a thorough theoretical and practical training, including a supervised placement, enabling you to qualify as a counsellor


You will need to have completed our FdA/BA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations (TCTO), our Graduate Diploma Psychodynamic Counselling, or an equivalent qualification from another institution

A requirement of the course is that you are in personal therapy or counselling on a weekly basis


This course provides clinical training for those working with children and adolescents and gives you the clinical experience through placements in agencies such as schools or the NHS (National Health Service)


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

Being located within the UK’s leading university of the study of social sciences means you are surrounded by strong departments that fully support and enhance our work