MA Psychotherapy & Counselling
For direct entry to the MA in Psychotherapy & Counselling,
the requirements are as follows:
- To have completed an undergraduate degree in any
discipline;
- To have successfully completed a Foundation course in
Psychotherapy and Counselling of about 120 hours. Please note
that this requirement is NOT waived if you have an
undergraduate degree in Psychology;
- To have experience working for at least SIX
MONTHS professionally in an allied area (such as nursing,
social work, teaching, human resources, mediation or similar)
or in a voluntary capacity seeing individuals in a 'helping' or
'supportive' context (such as befriending, mentoring, telephone
helpline working or similar). Please note that voluntary work must
have been accrued in an institutional/agency setting.
- To have sufficient maturity and life experience post-full-time
education to be capable of undertaking clinical training;
It is also desirable for applicants:
- To have completed the Foundation at SPCP;
- To have experience of personal therapy.
Page last updated 10/6/2011