The BSc (Hons) Counselling is a BACP-accredited degree offering a solid grounding in counselling theory and practice. It provides a shared first year of study before students specialise in either the Person-Centred or Humanistic Integrative pathway from Year Two onward.Both routes combine academic learning with personal development and supervised clinical practice, preparing graduates to become reflective, ethical, and effective practitioners across a wide range of counselling and therapeutic contexts.Course overviewDuring the first year, all students study the foundations of counselling, developing core skills, exploring humanistic principles, and beginning to identify their preferred modality. From Year Two, students choose to follow one of two specialist routes:BSc (Hons) Counselling (Person-Centred) – rooted in Carl Rogers’ humanistic philosophy and the six necessary and sufficient conditions for psychological growth. This pathway cultivates authenticity, empathy, and unconditional positive regard as the foundations of therapeutic practice, encouraging reflective, culturally responsive, and ethically aware counsellors.BSc (Hons) Counselling (Humanistic Integrative) – grounded in a relational, experiential, and integrative approach, drawing together theories and methods from across humanistic traditions. This pathway encourages flexibility, self-awareness, and an appreciation of the therapeutic relationship as central to change.Both pathways balance theory, personal process, and supervised clinical work, fostering professional competence and personal insight.Course philosophyThe degree is underpinned by humanistic values that emphasise relational depth, authenticity, and the belief in every individual’s capacity for growth and change. Students are supported to develop as reflective practitioners, able to integrate theoretical knowledge, ethical understanding, and self-awareness into their counselling practice.