Wellbeing Education - Professional Training in Therapeutic Wellbeing Practice for Children and Young People
Professional Training in Humanistic and Integrative Therapeutic Counselling Across the Life Course
Advanced Professional Therapeutic Counselling
Year Four
Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative
Therapeutic Counselling
LEVEL 7
Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Therapeutic Counselling
Year four is vital for consolidation, ensuring each trainee is fit for purpose for professional practice. This includes the integration of therapeutic principles and values, relational ethics, as well as the application and evaluation of ethical decision-making in practice.
Trainees are supported to complete their final assessment interview, which enables them to demonstrate they have assimilated the theory and skills required for safe and effective practice across the life course.
Graduates can be employed in a wide range of settings as well as establish independent practice as a therapeutic counsellor, which is why students are well supported in a rigorous assessment process.
All graduates of the course are expected to register with a professional body and make a commitment to lifelong learning and ongoing supervision.
This includes 21 days on weekends and a 30-hour compulsory online weekly supervision group (evening)
There are two written and two practice assessments in the advanced professional training.
Course Content
Module 10C: The Site of Integration: Personal Growth and Community
The site of Integration is delivered throughout years three and four and it refers to the context of researching subjective lived experience, where integration is promoted and enabled. This unites aspects of the different modules through the synthesis of knowledge and experience. This module is about how therapeutic practice requires the use of self in integrative-relational approaches. It draws from the unitive aspects within the humanistic and integrative tradition in psychotherapy as well as pluralistic perspectives on mental health. This also integrates TADF WICKET (world views, identity, context, embodiment and time) with research into their own childhood and growing up, promoting insights from autoethnographic research. This promotes understanding of the development of in context with autoethnographic research presentations.
Module 10D: Principles, Values and Ethics in Therapeutic Counselling
This module underlines the values and principles in practice for pluralistic therapeutic counselling. This includes reviewing policy frameworks, exploring ethical dilemmas and reviewing practice guidance. This enables the integration of core conditions, self-actualising tendencies, and congruence in professional therapeutic counselling practice. This module emphasises the role of supervision in ensuring reflection and analysis on power in the therapeutic relationship and within theory, world views, systems, and organisations. This promotes mindful therapeutic care for self and others within the therapeutic relationship, individuals, organisations and communities.
Module 10E: Advanced Theory and Practice with Adults
This module includes consolidation of the integrative approach in action, including the application of relevant legislation to therapeutic counselling practice. Trainees explore, in more depth, the risks and benefits of technologically mediated therapeutic approaches, which have been taught earlier in the course, as applied to independent practice with different presenting issues and needs. This includes how to ensure effective practice management in case formulation, review as well as consideration of the different reasons why clients seek therapeutic help and support across the life course. Trainees explore emotional themes in more depth to increase capacity to work with complex mental health challenges and emotional regulation.
Module 10F: Preparation for Professional Practice
This final module consolidates and integrates all the previous curriculum, revising fundamental principles, knowledge, and skills in action within the placement settings and research forums. This includes the competencies for working within statutory, voluntary and charity sectors, as well as preparation for the possibility of working in independent practice across the life course. This includes understanding of safeguarding responsibilities, risk assessment, child protection and inter-disciplinary working to ensure safe and effective ethical decision making. This includes working with third parties as well as considering professional boundaries, accountability for practice management, commitment to supervision and lifelong learning.
Outcomes of Year Four
On completion of the full four-year training, students are well-equipped for professional practice as therapeutic counsellors. Students have completed all the relevant assessments to ensure their core competencies have been tested to the full. They have also explored their own biographical histories in context through autoethnographic research and presentations
Graduates emerge from the training with professional integrity and confidence, with the capacity to work in a wide range of settings with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds with many different presenting issues.
Graduates understand the professional context of the wider field and the importance of belonging to a professional community for the purpose of continuing professional development, supervision, regulation, and ethical accountability.
