Counselling and Psychotherapy MSc
Keele University
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Make a difference to the lives of others by gaining the knowledge skills and experience to practice as a professional counsellor. Our British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited MSc combines academic study with counselling skills practice, facilitating your personal and professional development as well as offering you a grounding in research methodology.Course summaryOur MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy incorporates three strands of counselling training - namely ...Read more

Make a difference to the lives of others by gaining the knowledge skills and experience to practice as a professional counsellor. Our British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited MSc combines academic study with counselling skills practice, facilitating your personal and professional development as well as offering you a grounding in research methodology.

Course summary

Our MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy incorporates three strands of counselling training - namely counselling theory, counselling practice and personal development.

The philosophy of the programme is humanistic with a focus on person-centred practice. The core theoretical model of the course is derived from an acceptance of Carl Rogers belief in the self-therapeutic capacity and wisdom of clients (1967). The philosophical traditions of existentialism and phenomenology are used to illuminate understanding of humanistic practice through lectures and small group work.

You will be encouraged to examine and question your own beliefs and assumptions to develop a personal, integrated theory of human development, based upon humanistic phenomenological philosophy and principles. We do this by offering you opportunities to reflect upon the theory that is offered in light of your own experience - to develop your own philosophical and theoretical base.

To enable you to build and maintain strong therapeutic alliances with clients we aim to facilitate your ability to co-create relationships at depth, developing and understanding the barriers which may prevent or impact such therapeutic relationships.

Concepts such as presence, empathic understanding, resonance, acceptance and challenge will underpin your personal way of being and professional practice.

Your career

Keele counselling students go on to work in a wide range of counselling and mental health fields in the UK and internationally as well as progressing on to further study, research or specialist training.

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61st

Modules

Modules (Year 1)
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Entry requirements

2:2 degree in any subject or Keele Graduate Certificate in Counselling, with 60% in one assignment and a Progression Report from an academic mentor.

Tuition fees

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£12,700 per year

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Students from Domestic

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Accommodation- Standard Shared Halls £117.46

£24,900 per year

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Students from EU

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Accommodation- Standard Shared Halls £117.46

£24,900 per year

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Accommodation- Standard Shared Halls £117.46

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Uni info

Keele University
Staffordshire Keele Staffordshire ST5 5BG United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Stoke-on-Trent  4.6 miles away

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