Counselling and Psychotherapy

UCAS code: B943

Here's what Warwickshire College says about its Counselling and Psychotherapy course.

This course meets professional standards required to practise as a psychological counsellor with clients of all ages and in a range of settings.

Students taking the BSc (Hons) course will achieve their qualification at level 6 after three years full-time study. An alternative route is to study for the FdSc course with qualification at level 5 and then progress to the top-up course to achieve the full level 6 while in practice.

Linking theory to practice on a clinically-supervised placement, and offering a choice of Person-Centred (PC) or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) pathways, the course will develop your skills to work with a wide range of clients, including children and young people (CYP), couples and relationships*, and clients with complex issues. In addition, this course will provide you with the professional and academic training to become a reflective practitioner who can meet changing needs within the counselling profession.

Our BSc course is National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) accredited and meets the NCPS requirements for our graduates to apply to its accredited register. Our courses also meet the requirements of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) for graduates to take the Certificate of Proficiency and pursue post-qualification individual membership. The CYP element of the course is delivered in accordance with BACP competencies and can contribute to application to the NCPS CYPT register post-qualification by portfolio route.

*Couples and relationship counselling is covered at level 6 only.

The taught sessions will be delivered at Royal Leamington Spa College or at Pershore College with additional individual academic, pastoral and dissertation tutorials. Further commitment is required for self-directed study and assessment.

For the September 2025 intake, classes for the full time course in Year 1 will be held on Tuesday from 9.00am to 5.30pm and Wednesday from 9.00am to 1.00pm

This course is delivered and awarded by Warwickshire College and is regulated by the Office for Students (OfS).

For our Higher Education Terms and Conditions please visit https://wcg.ac.uk/page/701/terms-and-conditions

Modules may include:

Level 4 Academic Study Skills, Employability and T-Shaped (WCG Generic) (20 credits) Person-Centred Psychotherapy: Fundamental Skills (40 credits) Personal and Professional Development 1 (20 credits) Ethics, Law and Culture (20 credits) Counselling Children and Young People (20 credits)

Level 5 WBPL (WCG Generic) (20 credits) Personal and Professional Development 2 (20 credits) Developing Psychotherapeutic Competence (40 credits) Mental Health and Wellbeing (20 credits) Integrity and Integration (20 credits) Level 6

Dissertation (40 credits) Research Methods (WCG Generic) (20 credits) Couples and Systems (20 credits) Assessment and Evaluation (20 credits) Developments in Psychotherapy (20 credits)

All students must complete an additional 120 hours of work-based learning to achieve their qualification. This comprises 100 appropriately supervised clinical placement hours across the duration of the course and 20 hours to be completed at Level 4 which includes personal therapy and additional online learning.

For further details about this course, please refer to the programme specification here: https://blob.wcg.ac.uk/pdf/definitive-programme-specification-bsc-counselling-and-psychotherapy-v4-1-acc-30c1bfde095bafde412393e8c9f5ca24.pdf

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated, please contact us for the latest information.

A range of formative and summative assessments include practical skills assessments, essays, presentations, reports, blogs, timed assessments and a final dissertation project.