Overview

If you are a qualified counselling practitioner, MA Advancing Counselling Practice offers a focused programme of study designed to deepen and extend your professional knowledge and advance your professional practice. You will apply contemporary evidence and theory to develop your core model whilst cultivating a wider understanding of alternatives to your current approach to practice.

Your learning is grounded in the context of a contemporary mental health landscape and you will develop approaches to working with specific client groups and issues through research and case-focused study. Teaching will be influenced both by counselling theory and the expertise of mental health professionals from outside the field of counselling.

Specialist routes mean you can advance your standing as practitioners working with adults or with children and young people, resulting in an exit award title of MA Advancing Counselling Practice (Adult) or MA Advancing Counselling Practice (CYP).

Why us?

The School of Psychology was awarded an Athena Swan Bronze Award in 2021, in recognition of its commitment to supporting and transforming gender equality

A first for the region, offering masters-level progression for qualified counselling practitioners who have a level 6 qualification (or equivalent)

Advances professional standing under the newly approved SCoPEd framework

Relevance to modern-day counselling roles such as mental health and multi-disciplinary team working

A course teaching team drawing from experienced practitioners in the field of counselling and psychological therapy

Expert teaching input from lecturers from across a range of health professionals in the Faculty

A wide range of expertise in research from across the School of Psychology