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Integrative Counselling Skills

A stimulating introduction to the skills, theory and self-awareness needed to be an effective listener and communicator.

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Key Course Details

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The course will help to improve your employability potential by enhancing your communication skills, in addition to helping you prepare for further professional and academic training and development.

DESIGNED FOR

This counselling qualification can help people in related professions such as social work, nursing or teaching to further develop and enhance their listening and communication skills.

Career Paths

  • NHS
  • Private Health Practitioner
  • Teacher
  • Researcher

Skills Taught

  • Communication 
  • Enquiry and Analysis
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration 
  • Critical Reflection

Module Overview

Initial Integrative Counselling Skills and Awareness

This module aims to facilitate the ethical use of initial counselling skills within an integrative framework of counselling theory and engage the student in personal development through critically reflective practice.

Developing Integrative Counselling Skills

This module aims to facilitate the intentional and ethical use of a range of advanced counselling skills within an integrative framework of counselling theory. Students will develop the capacity to critically reflect on the skills development of self and others.

 

Awareness and Insight in Context 

This module aims to facilitate the critically reflective integration of skills, insight and theory into practice.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

  • Undergraduate degree and/or relevant professional qualifications  
  • Level 2 Counselling Skills qualifications are desirable
  • Experience of working with people in the caring field
  • Two references uploaded with your application*

*The references must be on letter headed paper or the referee can send them direct from a professional/work email address to [email protected]. 

Closed for International applicants 

Unfortunately, this course is not currently open to international applicants, please visit our course pages where you can find an alternative course choice. 

 

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

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Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Busaries Alumni Discount

Additional Costs

As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

This Postgraduate Certificate Integrative Counselling Skills is 60 credits at Level 7.

You will learn through experiential exercises, skills practice, personal reflective practice work and formal teaching. You will work in pairs, small groups and larger groups.

You are expected to attend all teaching sessions and there is an 80% minimum attendance requirement.

Placements

While there are no formal placements as part of the PG Cert, students have the opportunity to develop their counselling skills in a weekly practice group. In this setting, they work in triads with their peers from the course. Skills practice is conducted in small groups, observed by a tutor. Students are then able to reflect on their learning in a tutor facilitated reflective practice group.

All tutors on the course are practising counsellors and psychotherapists. They regularly draw on their considerable clinical experience to enrich the students' learning experience.

Teaching staff

Katy Tozer, Course Leader

Facilities

You will be taught in modern facilities with dedicated classrooms, using digital recording equipment.

Careers and Employability

Graduate careers

Previous students have progressed their training further of professionally accredited counselling and psychotherapy courses or have returned to established professions or work environments with their enhanced communication and counselling skills. Graduates have found work in the NHS, private health facilities and a range of public, charitable and voluntary sector organisations.

Possible career paths

The course will help to improve your employability potential by enhancing your communication skills, in addition to helping you prepare for further professional and academic training and development.

How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

International admissions

Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.

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University Quality Assurance

At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.

If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.