Therapeutic Counselling Pearson Level 5 Diploma

• Safety (ethics, boundaries, and safety for self and client. Membership of the BACP is compulsory)

• Relationship ( building a relationship between Volunteer Counsellor and client in an agency setting)

• Difference and Diversity ( acknowledging and respecting each other's differences in terms of race, culture, age, gender, abilities, applying equal opportunities to the relationship)

• Service User Centred ( putting the client at the centre of the process, ensuring that the Volunteer Counsellor adheres to the BACP Framework for Good Practice in putting the needs of the client at the heart of the therapeutic process)

• Self Awareness ( Developing emotional intelligence as a trainee, learning how to listen to self and others in a caring Rogerian way of being)

• Gaining understanding of the range of theories that inform practice ranging from Freud, Klein, Bowlby, Adler and other Psychodynamic theories to the Humanistic theories of Fritz Perls, Maslow, Rogers, Kahn, Gill, Kohut, Mearns and Thorne, and extending the theory base to include Existential Philosophy including Rollo May, Irvin Yalom, Heidegger, Sartre, Nietsche, adding the CBT dimension to include Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis and Arnold Lazarus.

Counselling practice will focus on Theory into practice, trainees will be encouraged to integrate skills and theory in an integrative model of their choice and focus. Self reflection is the bedrock of this Integrative course, trainees will over the period of the two year course become self reflective practitioners, competent to work in any agency setting.

L5 will extend the trainee's level of competence to develop their own individual Practice as an independent Practitioner who can at this stage become an accredited member of the BACP.

There are two residentials, both are based at an organic farm ' Bore Place in Kent' and attendance on this course is compulsory and is included in the cost of the course.