Post-Graduate Diploma Psychotherapy & Counselling
For direct entry to the PGDiploma in Psychotherapy &
Counselling, the requirements are as follows:
- To have successfully completed a Foundation course in
Psychotherapy and Counselling of about 120 hours;
- To have experience working for at least TWO YEARS
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.
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