Counselling
Counselling (Therapeutic)
Therapeutic Counselling Course (Practical & Theory)
CMA Recognised & Registered Le Monde Nouveau Diploma Course
Becoming a counsellor requires a considerable amount of mental stamina and self awareness. This counselling course is for those wishing to train to become a counsellors and not for personal therapy. It is not not recommend that anyone who haswithin the last two years experienced major personal problems, to undertake thiscounselling course
The emphasis of this course is of a Person Centred Experiential approach with a focus on classroom exercises to integrate theory with personal professional development. Class discussion, lectures, case studies, simulations and skills workshops are all involved.
The modules will involve Counselling Skills, Human Development, Continuing Professional Development, Comparative Theories, Bereavement Counselling, Relationship Counselling, Client Work = 100 hours supervised. Integrated by Log Journals.
Counsellors and therapists deal with a broad range of difficulties including redundancy, marital problems, alcoholism, eating disorders, self-esteem and bereavement. This integrated course is based upon the theory that life's difficulties are perceived and tackled by the individual in relation to a host of social factors such as family makeup and background, ethnicity, cultural, educational and economic circumstances.
Using such an approach, the therapist's task is to work with the client within this context as briefly and economically as possible in order to reframe the perception of and approach to problem management and resolution.
Course Syllabus
Basic & advanced counselling skills
Alcohol & drug counselling
Depression management
Development psychology
Grief & bereavement counselling
Obsessive compulsive behaviour disorders
Self-destructive relationships
How will I be assessed?
The course is assessed by a range of methods. Primarily an assignment task essay is set for each module and with the associated Log Journal Tasks and some peer assessment, this comprises the assessment for the programme. 8 modules, 8 assignments = 3000 words each.
Note: The therapist's task is to work with the client as briefly and economically as possible in order to reframe the perception of and approach to problem management and resolution.
The Benefits of Therapeutic Counselling
This approach of counseling is both humanistic and existential rather than psychoanalytic, and as such it has similarities to Gestalt psychotherapy. It also has similarities to person centred counselling but concentrates on the relationship between counsellor and client.
In all our day to day relationships we act in (sometimes unconscious) ways which lead us to be treated by others often in patterns which repeat themselves. We fall into patterns of behaviour which happen time and time again. If these patterns have a negative effect on our life it is time to change them. Within a therapeutic relationship many of our common behaviours get acted out, referred to as transference. The skilled counselor can however hold the boundaries of your transferred feelings towards the self so thus the relationship can then be experienced in an atmosphere of trust and safety. It is often not necessary for the therapist to make the client's behaviour known explicitly. Just the experiencing of the relationship can be enough to bring about lasting therapeutic changes.
