16th March 2010
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Counselling

Welcome to Counselling Training at The College

The Bournemouth and Poole College is at the forefront of education which meets all the new standards and accreditation for counselling training. The courses The College provides prepares students for careers as well as becoming counsellors.

Our lecturing team are highly qualified counsellors and psychologists who have vast experience across a range of talking therapies including CBT, Existential, Psychodynamic and Humanist approaches. Their practical experience includes counselling in addictions, psychiatric social work, couple counselling, one-to-one counselling and extensive self development training.

Counselling - The future

Major changes are planned for the training of professional Counsellors. The Government’s initiative of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is opening up new career opportunities in Counselling with an additional 3,600 new posts for therapists and counsellors by 2010. This is in addition to jobs and career opportunities within schools and colleges, the charity sector and social care.

Who can benefit from counselling skills training?

It’s not only those who are training to be Counsellors that can benefit from counselling skills training. Carers, teachers, teaching assistants, police officers, nurses, health care assistants, social workers, customer service representatives and sales people have all reported that they benefited from counselling skills training.

How can counselling skills training help at work?

The real benefits of counselling skills training at work are improved personal effectiveness, resolving difficult situations quickly, reduction in stress, excellent team working, establishing good client relationships with great customer service. Our students tell us that counselling skills have not only changed how they relate to people, but have also helped them to become more resilient, more tolerant and patient and build better relationships.

Counselling Courses we offer at The College

Counselling Skills - Introductory Certificate

This course is ideal if you have little or no counselling experience. You will learn how to use initial counselling skills and explore how counselling could possible help within the workplace.

Counselling Skills - Level 2

This course aims to provide you with a sound level of competence in the use of counselling skills .

You will learn how to apply skills within an ethical framework whilst heightening and extending your personal awareness and development.

The objectives of this qualification are to enable you to:

Apply counselling skills
Evaluate and develop your own work
Use counselling skills in context.

Counselling Studies - Level 3

The course aims to provide an opportunity for you to explore counselling theory, acquire basic counselling skills and develop reflective skills on the use of basic counselling skills.

This course is ideal if you are interested in training to become a counsellor. Counselling courses are run in conjunction with the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB).

Therapeutic Counselling - Level 4 Diploma

This course is ideal if you wish to complete your Counselling training.

The final stage is the Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. Over two years this course provides at least 420 hours of Humanistic Integrative training.

In addition to the normal College attendance hours (one day a week) you need further availability/flexibility to allow time for the following:

Counselling placement - You will need to find your own placement which needs to be approved by The College
Client work - Over the period of this course you need to build a minimum of 100 client hours in order to meet course requirements.
Supervision - is held fortnightly (usually in a group of 3) and each session being 1 1/2 hours
Personal Therapy - You will be required to undergo and pay for your own personal therapy, and to have a minimum of 40 sessions on a weekly continuous basis with the same therapist. Whilst you are seeing clients you will be expected to remain in therapy

This is a demanding course which requires a great deal of time commitment as well as some additional costs outlined above.

On successful completion of the CPCAB Diploma, you will be considered competent to work in an agency setting. CPCAB offer a further year's course, which after successful completion you would be considered competent to set up a private practice in a supervised setting.

One Day Business Workshops & Personal Development Courses

By utilising the most up to date approaches such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Neuroscience, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), we provide one day workshops for supervisors, team leaders and managers to improve effectiveness.

NEW FOR 2009/10! We now also offer a range of Personal Development courses.

Whether you are after the job of your dreams or need to overcome a fear of presentations, we have the course to help you achieve your goals. Here are a few examples of courses that could be beneficial to you or your business: