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Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy

Entry Requirements

  • Satisfactory completion of either the taught components of SPCP’s MA in Psychotherapy & Counselling, or an equivalent Masters level professional training in psychotherapy/counselling/counselling psychology
  • Interest and basic understanding of existential philosophy
  • Good working knowledge of existential psychotherapy and counselling (equivalent to two modules or one third of a Masters)
  • Willingness to further develop one's philosophy of psychotherapy and to remain critical and open about it
  • Evidence of an ability to be self-reflective with openness and originality and to be able to function effectively and ethically under pressure
  • Emotional maturity demonstrating a flexible and open attitude to a wide range of life experience
  • Satisfactory completion of a minimum of 100 client contact hours in a formal clinical placement
  • Completion of a minimum of two years’ regular individual psychotherapy
  • If English is not your first language, you must provide an IELTS score of at least 6.5, or a TOE FL score of at least 90 (internet-based test), 575 (paper test) or 233 (computer test)

Page last updated 9/5/2011