ABOUT THE COURSE
YOUR CAREER IN COUNSELLING
Welcome to the fulfilling world of counselling! If you have a passion for helping others navigate life's challenges and supporting them on their journey to personal growth and well-being, then this course is the perfect starting point for your rewarding career in counselling.
Throughout this program, you'll delve into the foundational principles of counselling, learning effective communication skills, empathy, and active listening techniques. You'll explore various counselling theories and approaches, gaining insight into how to tailor your support to meet the unique needs of each individual.
Led by experienced counsellors and mental health professionals, our course provides a comprehensive understanding of the ethical, legal, and practical aspects of counselling. Through case studies, role-playing exercises, and supervised practice sessions, you'll develop the confidence and expertise to make a positive impact in the lives of your clients.
Whether you aspire to work in schools, community centres, private practice, or other counselling settings, this course equips you with the knowledge and skills to pursue a fulfilling career in counselling. Join us as we embark on this journey to empower others and foster positive change in the world. Your career in counselling awaits!
STUDY DURATION:
In this course, you can learn at your own pace, without any fixed due dates or deadlines. You study whenever you have the time and feel motivated to do so. The course typically takes around 100 hours to complete from beginning to end, and most students graduate within 12 months.
STUDY METHOD：
100% Online
START DATE:
Intake is open now.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
This certificate opens up the gateway for you to seek employment in various businesses, some career outcomes may require further training and /or qualifications.
CORE MODULES
1. Counselling Skills I
- Learning Specific Skills: methods of learning, learning micro-skills
- Listening & Bonding: meeting and greeting, helping the client relax, listening with intent
- Reflection: paraphrasing, reflection of feeling, client responses to reflection of feelings, reflection of content and feeling
- Questioning: open & closed questions, other types of questions, goals of questioning
- Interview Techniques: summarising, confrontation, reframing
- Changing Beliefs and Normalising: changing self-destructive beliefs, irrational beliefs, normalising
- Finding Solutions: making choices, facilitating actions, gestalt awareness circle, psychological blocks
- Ending the Counselling: terminating the session, closure, further meetings, dependency, confronting dependency
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ABOUT US
Courses4me
Courses4me is the leader in online education with decades of experience in both public and private education.
Our founders have a combined 30 years of expertise in education and training and have joined forces to deliver high-quality, low-cost education to anyone wishing to advance their career.
IS COURSES4ME ACCREDITED?
Yes. All of our courses are endorsed by the IARC (www.iarcedu.com) and accredited by ICOES (www.icoes.org). ICOES has an independent board of management that ensures that the Foundation operates in accordance with its purpose. It has an Advisory Board consisting of independent professors who developed and implemented the Accreditation Standards, a quality charter that is used for the annual review of prospective and existing accredited course providers.
