Modules

During this Counselling Foundation Degree course, you will complete a number of different modules. Areas studied could include:

• Counselling relationships

• BACP/NCS ethical framework

• Counselling skills

• Creative approaches to counselling

• Theoretical approaches

• Application to practice

• Personal development

• Humanistic approaches: gestalt, transactional analysis, psychosynthesis and existential approaches

• Solution-focused therapy

• Professional practice

• Human development

• Working with loss and grief

• Evidence-based practice and research

• Mental health in a counselling context

Assessment method

We use a wide variety of assessment techniques which are all coursework-based including written assignments, presentations, practical skills assessments, critical reviews, creative pieces and a portfolio of counselling and supervision logs and reports. During this Counselling Foundation Degree course, you will be asked to complete a minimum of 30 hours in a vocational placement, some of which can be undertaken prior to starting the course, where you will develop your counselling skills and knowledge. In stage 2, you will start your counselling placement and practice as a trainee counsellor in an approved counselling setting to achieve 100 counselling hours under supervision.