Course summary

Our Psychotherapeutic Counselling MSc will develop you into a reflexive counsellor who can work effectively with clients on a diverse range of issues. The course aims to:

• Provide students with an in-depth exploration in integrative counselling and its application to counselling and the mental health field.

• Equip students with the conceptual understanding, skills and knowledge to assess critically research findings in the context of the developing discipline of counselling.

• Encourage students to consider and critically reflect on ethical, legal and moral aspects of different approaches to counselling issues.

• Facilitate a critically reflexive attitude around diversity and difference to develop awareness of the impact of cultural and family messages on development of self and self in relationship with others.

• Equip students with the skills that will prepare them for employment as professional counsellors.

• Develop students’ abilities so that they become competent and reflexive practitioners, able to work effectively and professionally with others,

• Sustain a culture of research and learning, while encouraging students to question their previous assumptions and develop an open and enquiring attitude.

• Enable students to develop their ability to carry out independent research at an advanced level and to incorporate this learning into written assignments, demonstrating self-direction and originality.