DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING
A three year part time course (evenings and weekends) for people who are using, or wish to use, counselling in their work.
A Diploma in counselling is a minimum training requirement for those wishing to work professionally as counsellors. It can also enhance any career that involves working with people.
The course offered by
New Paradigm Training is carefully designed to build on students’ existing skills and knowledge. It has been run as a diploma course for eight years and continues to be developed. Training methods are varied: practical skills work alternates with formal teaching and discussion. Students are seen as individuals and their particular strengths and needs are acknowledged and supported.
Teaching takes place in well-equipped rooms in the Redhill area. Students have access to college facilities including the library and computing facilities.
All teaching takes place during evenings and weekends, so that people in full-time employment, or with daytime childcare responsibilities, are not prevented from attending.
Potential students should be at least thirty years of age, and be committed to studying at an advanced level. Experience of counselling training at Introductory or Certificate level is desirable, although not a course requirement. Most important is a strong interest in how our minds work, and a willingness to look beneath the surface of human experience. All students are required to undertake a minimum of 100 hours of personal counselling or psychotherapy during the course.
The course draws on different counselling traditions, principally Psychodynamic, Person-centred, and Reichian approaches, and teaches them within an integrative framework. Much of the work in the first year is of a practical ‘workshop’ nature, and students gradually develop the confidence to practice their skills within a small group. This work continues into the second year, but there is a greater focus on theory. In year three the emphasis is on the professional and practical implications of work with clients. Most students begin a counselling placement during this year.
Topic-based workshops take place on Saturdays, and introduce students to specific areas of experience or counselling work. Students attend three per year.
Self-awareness work is a particular feature of the course, and the course fees include tuition for three self-awareness workshops, which also take place at weekends.
The tuition costs of all these workshops are included in the fees, which are currently £1150 per annum. The fees do not include the cost of personal counselling or supervision.
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