Course description
Certificate in Counselling Skills (CSKL2)
This Counselling Skills course is suitable for candidates who have some experience in listening to others and would like to expand on their skills and knowledge. If you have been told you are a good listener or would make a good counsellor, this course will give you an overview of how to put your skills into practice safely.
You will learn in more detail how to
- Use counselling skills ethically and safely
- Establish and sustain the boundaries of the helping role
- Work empathically as a helper
- Focus on the helpee's needs and concerns
- Use self-awareness in helping work
- Use a range of counselling skills to facilitate the helping interaction
- Use feedback and reflection to enhance counselling skills
Suitability - Who should attend?
You do not need a formal prior qualification, although you may have taken the introduction course which will give you a head start in building your portfolio.
Entry by application form - this helps us to make sure this is the right course for you and to plan for your learning. Please see our website for more details
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Professional or Industry specific qualification
Course delivery details
Delivered online until further notice.
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Reviews
Average rating 4.5
Everything has been great! I have felt supported throughout - something i know is not always the case on a course like this.
This is not just something I will bring to my work and future career in counselling but also in life. Absolutely fulfilling and rewarding.
Overall this has been a serviceable introduction to counselling; it is quite basic.
The reading material was quite out of date (e.g., referring to queer sexualities as "conf...