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MA - Master of Arts
Colchester Campus
Part Time
SEP-25
3 years
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MA - Master of Arts
Colchester Campus
Part Time
SEP-25
3 years
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Do you want to train as a psychodynamic counsellor? Are you looking to develop psychodynamic understanding and skills to broaden and deepen your practice?
This course offers a professional qualification to work therapeutically as a counsellor, either with children and adolescents or with adults You gain thorough theoretical and practical training, including a supervised placement, enabling you to qualify and practise as a counsellor.
This course provides a route to a counselling and psychotherapy qualification for graduates from psychology, sociology, or many other related degrees as well as for established professionals, such as teachers, social workers, nurses and care workers.
In the first year you learn about psychodynamic theory and its applications. In the second year, you take up a placement as trainee counsellor to develop your skills and confidence as a practitioner. You will be placed in an agency such as a school, voluntary organisation, or some other support service. A requirement of this course is that you are in personal therapy or counselling on a weekly basis, and you will need weekly supervision. As part of your course, you are required to attend a conference and may incur associated travel costs.
If you are an EU or EEA national, you will only be able to study a part-time course if you hold settled status in the UK. If you are a non-EEA, and non-UK national, you will only be able to study a part-time course if you hold a UK immigration permission which allows part-time study. If you will need a student visa to study in the UK, then you will not be able to study part-time.
Your future
Graduates from our Graduate Diploma Psychodynamic Counselling who do not continue in the training may well already be professionals, clinical and non-clinical, and will return to their existing fields, either in jobs or further training, and use their learning from the course to deepen their understanding of their work.
Graduates from our MA Psychodynamic Counselling are qualified counsellors who take up positions in many agencies providing counselling to young people. Graduates from our department go on to several different destinations, including further study and training in psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, or psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
A 2:2 degree, or international equivalent. It is desirable for you to have had some relevant experience in a caring or supportive role. Experience of your own counselling or therapy is also an asset. With your online application you must submit a personal statement; this should detail the reasons for wanting to study the course, including any relevant experience (work or voluntary) that may support your application. You must also have a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check (including child and adult barred list check) this is organised by the University. A satisfactory Overseas Criminal Record Check/Local Police Certificate is also required, in addition to a DBS check, where you have lived outside of the UK in the last 5 years for 6 months or more. This course requires an interview.
Students living in
Domestic
£6,600 per year
Students from Domestic
This course consists of one year Graduate Diploma study, followed by two years of Masters study. The fee displayed here is the Graduate Diploma tuition fee for the first year of your course.
£14,322 per year
Students from EU
The cost of your first year reflects the Graduate Diploma tuition fee. The fee will decrease to the Masters part-time tuition fees for the final two years of the course. As part of your course, you’re required to be in personal therapy on a weekly basis and receive supervision. You’ll be required to pay for this and find your own therapist. The average cost per weekly session is £40-70 per hour.
£14,322 per year
Students from International
The cost of your first year reflects the Graduate Diploma tuition fee. The fee will decrease to the Masters part-time tuition fees for the final two years of the course. As part of your course, you’re required to be in personal therapy on a weekly basis and receive supervision. You’ll be required to pay for this and find your own therapist. The average cost per weekly session is £40-70 per hour.
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