Advanced Counsellor and Psychotherapist QLS Level 4

Counsellors encourage clients to explore their feelings, understand their situations better and make positive changes to their lives. Whilst excellent communication and interpersonal skills are an essential prerequisite for counselling, (as you must be able to listen, set goals and explore development) this course supports you in building your counselling skills and acquiring the information on how to set up your own practice All course materials will be delivered to you by post or via email, so it couldn't be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors will help you every step of the way by email. This course is approved by the ACCPH (Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists), at the end of this course students will be able to join and become a member of the ACCPH. The ACCPH is an independent self-regulated professional body for counsellors, psychotherapists and hypnotherapists. What is a psychotherapist? A psychotherapist is someone who will use talk therapy to help their clients manage with acute trauma, mental illness, or even general emotional unrest. They don't just help with depression and anxiety, but also things like general daily overwhelm and grief. They will do this through talk therapy and will engage in a discussion about their clients problems, help them understand what they're going through, and offer a solution to the problem. What next? There are several avenues you can go down once you have successfully completed this course. You could take a look at our other counselling  courses, or you could further your education by studying a counselling degree at university. If you want to work in counselling following your Advanced Counsellor and Psychotherapist Level 4 qualification, here are just a few of the jobs you could explore depending on your credentials:

• Adult psychotherapist
• Child and adolescent psychotherapist
• Counsellor
• Family and systematic psychotherapist

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Course Content

Unit 1 Defining counselling and psychotherapy

• Theoretical perspectives
• Development of counselling and psychotherapy
• Similarities and differences between counselling and psychotherapy
• Counselling and psychotherapy in context

Unit 2 Core values and skills in counselling and psychotherapy

• Building the client-therapist relationship
• Competency skills
• Communication
• Applications of skills
• Transference and counter transference
• Monitoring generic skills

Unit 3 Models and approaches in counselling and psychotherapy

• The psychodynamic approach
• Humanist/person-centred approach
• Personal awareness
• Experiential focusing
• Behavioural and cognitive approaches
• Using behavioural methods
• The systems model
• The psychosocial/life stage model

Unit 4 Counselling specialities

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Assessments Strategies and Skills in CBT
• Relationship counselling
• Family counselling
• Bereavement counselling
• Addiction counselling

Unit 5 Psychotherapy specialities

• Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
• Brief therapy
• Transactional analysis (TA)
• Gestalt therapy

Unit 6 Practitioner strategies

• Business issues
• The therapy contract
• The psychotherapists responsibilities
• Health, safety and regulations
• Client assessment