ABOUT THE COURSE
YOUR CAREER IN COUNSELLING
he role of the counsellor is to facilitate the person’s resolution of these issues, whilst respect their values, personal resources, culture and capacity for choice. Counselling can provide people with a regular time and space to talk about their problems and explore difficult feelings in a confidential and dependable environment.
Counsellors do not usually offer advice, but instead give insight into the client’s feelings and behaviour and help the client change their behaviour if necessary. They do this by listening to what the client has to say and commenting on it from a professional perspective. Counselling covers a wide spectrum from the highly trained counsellor to someone who uses counselling skills as part of their role, for example, a nurse, youth leader, personal trainer or teacher.
LEARN ADVANCED SKILLS TO PUT YOU AHEAD OF THE PACK
It is sometimes the case that clients expect that the counsellor will be able to conjure up an instant cure. In such cases, it may well be necessary for the counsellor to spell out to the client that they are not an expert who can offer a magical solution to the client’s problems, but that their role is to help the client express their problems and feelings so as to gain a better understanding of themselves. The client needs to understand that it is not the role of the counsellor to offer advice, but rather to enable the client to find their own solutions that are right for them. It may also be necessary to inform the client that finding solutions to problems can take a long time, and that they may need to exercise patience and be prepared to commit to a number of sessions.
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
ABOUT US
Courses4me
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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.
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