About The Course

Counselling Course Glasgow

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Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

This three-year course is designed to train professional counsellors who can gain employment in the National Health Service, occupational health departments, health projects, and private practice. The course develops a therapist’s capacity to meet the client where they are and assess what skills and approach would most support the therapeutic movement of the client. Our unique therapeutic approach is called the Integrative Core Capacity Model. We also refer to it as “life skills therapy”. This approach originated from extended observation and experimentation gained from 25 years of clinical practice, working with people from all walks of life experiencing a wide spectrum of issues and problems. It takes into account skills and ideas from person-centered, gestalt, brief and rational emotive approaches. This approach has proven to be an effective therapy for clients and supportive for the therapist as well. Our philosophy and approach are anchored in developing a high degree of practical skills for interacting with the client. This includes using the principles of brain functioning and emotional intelligence in how we feed back and assess what is happening with the client and the session. Through this we use the persons situation as an opportunity to develop evidence of their choices, awareness of how they perceive and to uncover the path to their empowerment.

What Will I Learn?

Counselling develops a client’s understanding of their predicament. That is, their problematic situation and who they are in it. It creates a therapeutic environment where they can explore their options while developing their sense of self and their responsibility for their life.
So you can do this too, we teach you how to:
* Manage client interactions, including clients that are difficult to work with
* Build healthy relationships, engagement and rapport with clients
* Take detailed case histories
* Assess client behaviors and needs, and identify which skills and approaches are most applicable
* Work safely, respectfully and empathetically
* Work with your own motives, emotions, mind and self with more awareness
Throughout the three years, you will have an opportunity to develop your own understanding of where psychological problems come from and how to work with them. Our approach enables you to apply them to many typical problems including relationships, bereavement, anger and depression.

This course produces flexible practitioners who can use a wide range of therapeutic tools to meet individual client needs “in the moment”, while making sure they are looking after themselves in the process.

Learning about yourself, how to really listen, how to meet people therapeutically, observing patterns of behavior and learning to recognize genuine sincerity will likely have a real impact on you and your life. This impact is positive and necessary, and will make a difference when meeting delicate or vulnerable experiences with clients.

You will also be learning new ideas and theories about people and how they function as well as skills and strategies for helping them. And not every one learns in the same way!

Throughout the course you will be in an individual learning partnership with the tutor. You will meet regularly to discuss your learning process and to assess the best ways to support you. Along with this, there will be supervision sessions and group discussions to aid and nourish your capacity to grow personally and adjust to the impact of new awareness and realizations.

This entire approach will give you a different experience of the learning process so you can bring learning into the quality of your therapy.

QualificationsAdvanced diploma in therapeutic counselling. We award an advanced diploma to reflect the length of the course and the number of teaching hours, and because of the extent of the personal and professional development you will have achieved on completion.