Counselling

On the course you will learn about a range of counselling skills and how to safely and ethically use them. We adhere to the principles of the BACP, and you will learn about these and how to apply them to your helping work. You will learn about the different stages of a helping session and how to manage these, sustaining healthy boundaries that keep you and your helpee safe. By the end of the course, you will understand about empathy and how to focus on keeping to your helpee’s agenda and how to use your awareness of your own experiences and feelings to enhance this work rather than detract from it. This course, and all the other counselling courses at BCOT, demand an ability to look at your own process and reflect on what you bring to each interaction in order to improve your practice.

There is no formal entry requirement but the following criteria should be considered before you sign up to this course:

Ability to cope with course content

Ability to translate intra-personal experience into language

Ability to benefit from self-development

Be motivated towards developing as a helper

Emotional stability

Identify reasons for training beyond just personal development

References (centre option)

Awareness of difference and diversity

Assignments will need to be typed so all learners should be IT literate

A learning review (500-750 words) will need to be completed after each session.

Longer assignments on this course include an essay, a taped assessment, a group presentation and a summary self-review

All students will have the opportunity to discuss assessments with their tutor during scheduled tutorials

Progression on to a Level 3 Counselling qualification.

You can enrol directly onto this course, please do be sure to have considered the entry recommendations for your suitability as noted above. If you would like to enrol but are not sure whether you have the entry requirements, please email: information@bcot.ac.uk with your contact details or telephone 01256 306484.