How can you support the people who need your service most effectively?

How can you work more collaboratively with your colleagues?

What counts as therapeutic support for children, young people, or older adults?

The BA course is the third year of the programme, consolidating your knowledge and expertise from the Foundation Degree and empowering you to take a more significant role in your agencies.

We combine theoretical seminars, practical workshops, work-place learning, and an opportunity to focus on a theme that inspires you most. Your first term concentrates on developing therapeutic techniques in working individually with children and adults, whilst your second involves in-depth study of the dynamics of organisations. This includes theory, workshop and observational elements.

In the summer term you select either a module on supervision and mentoring, enabling you to foster the skills and development of others in your agency or a module on further developing your counselling skills.

Throughout the year, you will also be able to study an area of personal interest, engaging your curiosity under the expert guidance of our staff.

Your future

In undertaking this course you'll study a range of psychoanalytic concepts - applying them to individuals, relationships and organisations, which will provide you with a unique perspective of why we are the way we are, on understanding others and knowing how to relate to them, which will make you suited for further clinical training, postgraduate study in different fields, or employment.

Key areas of employment for people with these skills include marketing, advertising, human resources, management, the media, care work, teaching or health care. Our recent graduates have gone on to work in a wide range of careers, including:

Psychoanalytic therapy

Clinical psychology

NHS Mental Health work

Management Consultancy

Country Director (Afghanistan) with the Danish Refugee Council

Therapeutic Consultancy