BSc (Hons)

Counselling and Psychotherapy: Professional Practice

3 good reasons to study Counselling and Psychotherapy: Professional Practice at Salford:

Opportunity to Graduate as a fully trained professional counsellor
Develop your personal and professional potential supported by a very experienced and friendly team
Benefit from our work-placement opportunities

Human relationships are at the heart of almost every aspect of our personal and working lives. Training to be a professional counsellor develops your understanding of effective relationships and enables you to help people who are struggling with themselves or with others to find their own ways to transform their situation.

This course offers you the opportunity to graduate as a highly skilled professional counsellor with many exciting and rewarding career paths open to you. It is delivered by a very experienced team and builds on our established expertise in offering high quality professional training in counselling and psychotherapy.

Please note that at the end of the second year you can choose to transfer to the non-qualifying degree, the BSc (Hons) Counselling and Psychotherapy: Theoretical Studies, which has a greater focus on research and does not include the professional placement.

Course details

The course is structured with modules that deliver professional training components and that broaden and deepen your understanding of counselling-related issues. You will develop a wide range of professional skills, including communication, reflective practice and self awareness, research skills, stress management and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).

In the first year of your degree you will develop your theoretical understanding of counselling and psychotherapy and enhance key skills whilst working with your fellow students.

You will then further develop your understanding and skills under supervision by undertaking a placement at an organisation, which could include community health centres, charitable or voluntary organisations, GP surgeries or NHS services. Your second year is focused on preparing you for your placement, which will be undertaken in your third year. It is necessary that your counselling skills have reached a minimal level before you start your placement, as you will be working with potentially vulnerable members of the public.

YEAR 1

Year 1 will introduce you to counselling theory and practice and will enable you to establish and develop your counselling skills. You will develop counselling competency to Graduate Certificate level (in itself considered a desirable qualification by employers).

You will also be introduced to academic research skills and will learn how counselling theory can be applied in everyday life. In the Mindfulness and Wellbeing module you will learn specific skills to minimise stress and improve your general wellbeing, and this is an approach which is currently becoming more widely known.

Counselling & Psychotherapeutic Approaches

Counselling & Communication Skills

Introduction to the Research & Philosophy of Counselling

Intermediate Counselling Skills – Therapy, Ethics & Human Rights

Intermediate Counselling Skills – Therapeutic Skills

Mindfulness & Wellbeing

YEAR 2

This year consolidates and deepens your counselling skills and prepares you thoroughly for professional practice on your placement.

At the end of the second year you can choose to transfer to the non-qualifying degree, the BSc (Hons) Counselling and Psychotherapy: Theoretical Studies, which has a greater focus on research and does not include the professional placement.

Preparation for Practice

Reflective Practice & Research

Professional Issues, Ethics & Supervision

Professional Skills

Theory of Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice

Personal & Professional Development 1

YEAR 3

The main focus of this year is the supervised professional placement. This is an opportunity to work in a real professional situation applying the skills you have learnt in the previous two years and developing therapeutic relationships with people in real need. You will be fully supervised and supported in this placement.

This year also develops your understanding of how counselling and psychotherapy are used in a range of situations and for a range of issues.

As well as developing highly relevant and useful skills, the CBT module is very important for supporting your future employment in those services that require CBT skills.

Personal & Professional Development 2

Professional Practice

Professional Practice Placement

CBT Skills

Counselling & Mental Health

Course Enquiries

For course enquiries please call us on:

T: +44 (0) 161 295 4545

Or Email us at:

Home/EU students
E: enquiries@salford.ac.uk

International students
E: international@salford.ac.uk