MA Counselling and Psychotherapy

University of Chichester

Build your expertise and confidence in an evolving field

Counselling and Psychotherapy encompass a wide range of talking therapy approaches for an infinite number of concerns, delivered across a variety of contexts, time-spans and methods.

This MA gives counsellors the opportunity to learn to research, and to delve deeper into what it means to be a thoughtful, courageous and relational practitioner in today’s therapeutic context.

With existential, interpersonal and spiritual ideas all featuring as themes, students will attend campus for an assortment of lectures, seminars, talks and groupwork (approximately three hours per week) over the course of two years. They will also meet online for additional content and tutorials.

This Master’s degree seeks to give students a broad and exciting range of experiences, from deepening their existing understanding of connecting with clients and themselves, to managing a research project which has real meaning and resonance for them.

In a changing professional landscape, the ability to draw on critical thinking to find sustainability practices for both yourself and the world of counselling is invaluable.

Key transferable skills gained from this degree include:

• Increased confidence and adaptability
• Critical thinking and problem-solving
• Management of a specialist research project.