Advanced Counsellor & Psychotherapist Level 4

About This Course

As a counsellor your job is to help your clients to explore their feelings, understand their situations and make positive changes in their lives. Our Advanced Counsellor and Psychotherapist Level 4 course can help you to intensively engage with your clients and develop a deeper understanding of the expectations of your profession.

From supporting the development of your communication and interpersonal skills, to strengthening your ability to survey differing situations; our online course can help you to recognise the varying stages of severity in each case, so you can devise an appropriate course of action.

Theoretical perspective, personal awareness, experiential focusing, cognitive approaches, behavioural methods, assessment strategies, relationship/family/bereavement/addiction counselling… In just 180 hours, our in-depth course can expand your approaches to therapy; their various types and theories, and their applications, so you can achieve a level of confidence that is certain to enrich the experiences of your clients and the life situations they are facing.

Our course will also explore the regulations of this profession and how trainees and qualified counsellors may be affected.

Course Benefits

Alongside broadening your skillset as both a counsellor and as a psychotherapist, our online course also aims to supply you with the information to set up your own practice.

From handling the financials to informing you of all the regulations you will need to fulfil; by the end of the course you can use the information you have acquired to take your first steps to becoming your own boss.

Compacted into 6 in-depth units, every element of our course is designed to complement your existing practical work as a counsellor, whilst enhancing your skills to a new level of advancement.

This course will:

• Allow you to explore elements of your job you’ve previously not been involved in.
• Supply you with the theoretical knowledge to develop your current skills and take on greater responsibilities in your role.
• Challenge your understanding of counselling and psychotherapy.
• Support you in your mission to explore client feelings, their situations and the changes they need to make in order to achieve a more positive outcome.
• Improve your communication and interpersonal skills so you can succeed in listening, setting goals and exploring client development.

Course Units

Unit 1: Defining Counselling and Psychotherapy

• Theoretical perspectives
• Development of counselling and psychotherapy, and their similarities/differences
• Counselling and psychotherapy in context

Unit 2: Core Values and Skills in Counselling and Psychotherapy

• Building client-therapist relationships
• Competency skills
• Communication
• Applications of skills
• Monitoring generic skills.

Unit 3: Models and Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy

• 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 behaviour therapy
• Assessment strategies
• Skills in CBT, and relationship, family, bereavement
• Addiction counselling

Unit 5: Psychotherapy Specialities

• Neuro-linguistic programme
• Brief therapy
• Transactional analysis
• Gestalt therapy

Unit 6: Practitioner Strategies

• Business issues
• The therapy contract
• The psychotherapist’s responsibilities
• Client assessment

Assessment

Our Advanced Counsellor and Psychotherapist course is assessed based on a series of written assignments that will marked by your personal tutor upon your submission. Over the course of these assignments – which need to be completed within 12 months of your enrolment – you will be tested on your course knowledge, competencies and ability to apply them within a practical setting.

There is no exam to sit. Your certification will be based purely on the outcome of your written assignments.

In addition, you can start this course at a time of your choosing, enabling you to fit it around your current work commitments and responsibilities. Our course is completely flexible allowing you to study at your own pace and on your own terms – all from the comfort of your own home.

Required Knowledge

No previous knowledge is required to enrol onto this course.

Awarding Body

Support

Upon registration you will receive immediate access to your assessments and a comprehensive study guide. In addition, you’ll receive the continuous support of your very own personal tutor as well as access to our student support team who’ll always be on hand to answer all your queries and concerns. No matter your question, you can benefit from their instant support for the full 12 month duration of your course (should you choose to study for that long).