Graduate Certificate in Counselling

Counselling is a cross-disciplinary pathway into a career in helping human beings in distress In counselling clients gain self-understanding, expand interpersonal capacities and become more able to change through a dedicated helping relationship.

This course focuses on the process of creating of a therapeutic environment for clients and on cultivating the high levels of skill, sensitivity, self-knowledge and ethical conduct required of the counselling professional.

Theories and approaches are taught and critically examined in the light of their contribution to a contemporary relational understanding and practice of counselling.

This program is aimed specifically at graduates in any discipline who can demonstrate the personal qualities required for this demanding profession.

Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 40 credit points including the units listed in the recommended sequence below.

Recommended sequence

Part-time