In general, international applicants will need to have achieved an overall IELTS grade of 6.0 with a minimum score of 5.5 in each component.
The Counselling and Therapeutic Practice degree offers the learning and training you need to become a professional integrative counsellor. You'll gain the knowledge, skills and experience to provide counselling across all age ranges, from children and young people to older adults. You will study a range of traditional 'talking therapies', as well as creative and contemporary approaches such as online counselling.
Work placements are an important part of this counselling degree and will fully prepare you for the start of your career. You will have placements in every year of the course, including 150 hours of supervised professional practice. This meets placement criteria for individual accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
The School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies has dedicated Placement Officers and strong links with a wide range of local counselling agencies, employers and counselling services to provide you with the supervised practice hours required.
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Year One: Counselling and Therapeutic Practice Degree
Introduction to Counselling (60 credits) - An introduction to professional skills, ethics and law in the counselling context and how these are used within the therapeutic relationship in a range of mainstream therapies. This module is also designed to stimulate your understanding of yourself and how you relate to others, and help you develop your reflective practice.
Counselling Children and Young People 1 (20 credits) – An understanding of child and adolescent development, the formation of a young person’s identity, and developing a therapeutic relationship with children and young people.
Academic Skills for Practice-Focused Learning (20 credits) – Developing your academic skills and understanding recent research findings to support your developing practice.
Mental Health and Wellbeing (20 credits) – Understanding mental health and wellbeing from different perspectives. An introduction to common mental health difficulties and how to work with these.
Year Two Modules: Counselling and Therapeutic Practice Degree
Integrative Practice 1 (60 credits) - Building on your learning from Year One, you will study professional practice skills such as writing case notes and using supervision, and apply your knowledge of ethics and law in the professional counselling context. You will continue to develop your reflective practice through personal development and provide evidence through an increasing portfolio. You will develop your use of an integrative model, which involves using different counselling approaches to meet the specific needs of your individual clients. You will develop a sound working knowledge of integrating a range of short term, change-orientated helping skills.
Counselling Children and Young People 2 (20 credits) – Expanding your understanding and skills in working therapeutically with children and young people.
Working Creatively (20 credits) – Using creative ways of working therapeutically with clients across the lifespan.
Counselling Older Adults (20 credits) – Developing your knowledge of older adults and honing your skills to work with this client group.
Year Three: Counselling and Therapeutic Practice Degree
Integrative Practice 2 (60 credits) - Enhancing your application of legal and ethical frameworks and professional practice to demonstrate your emerging competence. Consolidating your model of therapeutic work, demonstrating your understanding and growing competence in therapeutic work.
Counselling Children and Young People 3 (20 credits) – Critically reflecting on your developing practice in counselling children and young people, you will acquire new skills and techniques, and expand your understanding of different contexts for this work.
Online Counselling (20 credits) – An introduction to a rapidly developing area of practice in which you will be discovering the difference between counselling face-to-face and counselling online.
Evidence-Based Practice (20 credits) – You will develop an understanding of the underpinnings of evidence based practice informing counselling, alongside the skills necessary to critically respond to research evidence and propose an approach to undertaking a small scale research project.
Students graduating from the BA Counselling and Therapeutic Practice course have the opportunity to access Postgraduate courses on offer at the university to further their studies.
The combination of a broad range of information relating to counselling across the lifespan and a range of placement opportunities means that students graduate with a wealth of knowledge and experience, which can be applied to a wide range of career opportunities as well as to counselling more specifically.
We encourage students to consider working in different fields which can utilise their knowledge and skills to improve access to mental health support more widely. These might include Schools Based Counsellors, Primary Mental Health workers, Mental Health Managers, Mental Health Trainers/advisors, Prison/Probationary service counsellors and working for an NGO.
Insurance - Single: 300GBP/ year
