Level 5 Courses

This intensive 2 week (10 training days) course will suit those learners who are happy to work across the Summer months. The course is full of content and learning and is ideal for those who enjoy a mixture of live online learning within a small cohort of 12 and independently driven learning as the course incorporates both.

Learners will be expected to view the course guides, video content and read papers which will be sent, via email, 6 weeks before the course begins and will consist of approximately 30 hours work.

This pre-course work is essential as each training day will build upon the video’s content and will be directly related to some of the papers’ content.

Learners should also allow an additional minimum of 20 hours across the course for background reading and assessment completion (2 assignments due after the end of the course).

The on-line training days will run from 10am to 4pm and will give 4.5 hours learning hours, with ample breaks to move away from the screen.

The dates of the course and the content ( Content subject to final changes) can be found by clicking on the Course Dates tab below.

This Course, accredited by OCN London, is for qualified, practicing counsellors and psychotherapists. It will cover both Part 1 of the BACP’s Counselling Young People (11-18 years) training curriculum and Part 1 of the BACP’s Counselling Children (4-10 years) training curriculum.

There is rising concern for the mental health of young people and this course will provide a clear and relevant understanding of the basic professional knowledge and skills needed to be an effective counsellor of children and young people and will allow counsellors to explore and increase their knowledge and clinical skills in their work with children and young people, in line with the current expectations of the profession.

Whilst we welcome learners who are members of any of the Counselling and Psychotherapy Professional Membership bodies, this course currently actively engages participants with the BACP Ethical Framework and the course will apply it to best practice in counselling children and young people, promoting the best outcomes for young people and their mental health and encouraging counsellors to practice in ethical and effective ways.

Using both theory and practical activities, the course will encourage individual and group learning and will be ideal for those who recognise the importance of practical learning – crucial in working with this age group.

Participants will be expected to take responsibility for their own learning, especially the pre-course directed individual learning (video content and papers).

Our facilitator will use communicative education techniques throughout and participants must be willing to engage with all the group members during all group and break out room activities, to further advance all participants’ learning.