Advanced Counsellor and Psychotherapist (Level 4) Course

Course Structure

Module 1: Defining Counselling and Psychotherapy

• Theoretical perspectives
• Development of counselling and psychotherapy
• Similarities and differences between counselling and psychotherapy
• Counselling and psychotherapy in context

Module 2: Core values and skills in counselling and psychotherapy

• Building the client-therapist relationship
• Competency skills
• Communication
• Applications of skills
• Transference and counter transference
• Monitoring generic skills

Module 3: Models and approaches in counselling and psychotherapy

• The psychodynamic approach
• Humanist/person-centred approach
• Personal awareness
• Experiential focusing
• Behavioural and cognitive approaches
• Using behavioural methods
• The systems model
• The psychosocial/life stage model

Module 4: Counselling specialities

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Assessments strategies and skills in CBT
• Relationship counselling
• Family counselling
• Bereavement counselling
• Addiction counselling

Module 5: Psychotherapy specialities

• Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
• Brief therapy
• Transactional analysis (TA)
• Gestalt therapy

Module 6: Practitioner strategies

• Business issues
• The therapy contract
• The psychotherapist’s responsibilities
• Health, safety and regulations
• Client assessment

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