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Therapeutic Counselling (Top-Up)

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This course has alternative study modes. Contact the university to find out how the information below might vary.

Course option

1year

Distance learning (full-time) | 2024

Other options

1 year | Distance learning (part-time) | 2024

Subject

Counselling

**If you’re working as a counsellor, this distance learning course will continue your professional development and top-up your qualification to a degree.**

**Distance learning with live attendance**
You'll study this course online via distance learning. Expert tutors will guide you through a range of teaching and learning activities which can be studied at a time that fits around your existing commitments. However, you’ll need to attend live online for the Group Therapies and Theory & Practice of Research modules. For full details, visit the 'Modules, workload and more' tab in the Teaching & Learning section further down this page.

As part of this course, via distance learning you’ll:

- Explore the key theoretical counselling orientations, including the relational approach and cognitive behavioural therapy, widely used in the NHS today

- Identify underpinning philosophies, values and cultural assumptions

- Explore key issues and debates in psychological therapies

- Experience and facilitate an online group

- Learn about different models of supervision, and reflect on your own experience

- Develop an understanding of research methods and apply these to your own piece of research, culminating in your research dissertation

**Find out more**

**Enhance your professional development**
If you’re a counsellor looking to top-up your qualification to an honours degree, this course will enrich your professional development and practice. You could also use it as a steppingstone to master’s-level study.

**Your learning experience**
You’ll shape and invigorate your debates through online discussions with other qualified counsellors as you share knowledge and expertise. Networking with your peers will enable you to potentially develop entrepreneurial ventures and partnerships.

You’ll boost your expertise with your final project module, as you develop and carry out your own research project.

**Teaching expertise**
Your learning will be facilitated by lecturers from a wide range of backgrounds, including:

- Psychology

- Counselling

- Occupational therapy

- Social work

Our teaching team has worked with person-centred, integrative, psychodynamic and humanistic approaches. They’ll help inform your course content and bring a vast array of experience and insight via recorded lectures, guided reflective exercises, guided reading and live online sessions. The group sessions in the Group Therapies module and dissertation supervision session require mandatory live online attendance. Additional drop-in sessions and workshops are optional.

You’ll focus on widening your knowledge and experience in theories of:

- Therapy

- Supervision

- Contemporary issues and debates in the field

- Group approaches

- Research

**Shape your identity**
By the end of your course, you’ll have shaped and strengthened your understanding of counselling and developed your identity as a counsellor. You’ll also feel confident in seeking more opportunities to deliver counselling in diverse settings and communities.

**Why study Therapeutic Counselling via distance learning at Leeds Beckett University...**
- Study at a time that fits around your other commitments

- Deepen your understanding of counselling and apply your knowledge to practice

- Engage with other qualified counsellors

- Part-time study available

- Research-led teaching

Modules

Year 3 Core Modules:
- Group Therapies and Group Work
- Issues and Debates in Psychological Therapies
- Supervision in Practice
- Theories of Therapy
- Theory and Practice of Research

The Uni


Course location:

City CampusC

Department:

Clinical and Applied Sciences

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

56%
Counselling

How do students rate their degree experience?

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Counselling, psychotherapy and occupational therapy

Teaching and learning

63%
Staff make the subject interesting
67%
Staff are good at explaining things
67%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
68%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

68%
Library resources
80%
IT resources
78%
Course specific equipment and facilities
51%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

99%
UK students
1%
International students
14%
Male students
86%
Female students
77%
2:1 or above
6%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

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After graduation


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Counselling, psychotherapy and occupational therapy

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£21,000
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Average annual salary
96%
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Employed or in further education

Top job areas of graduates

40%
Therapy professionals
10%
Other elementary services occupations
9%
Health professionals

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Counselling, psychotherapy and occupational therapy

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£23k

£23k

£27k

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£30k

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Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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