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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;

• If English is not your first language, you must provide an IELTS score of at least 7.0, or a TOEFL equivalent

It is also desirable for applicants:

• To have completed the Foundation at SPCP;
  
• To have experience of personal therapy.