Certificate in Counselling Skills SL5

(Comparable with SCQF Level 5)

Course Content

What will I learn?

This online course is designed to enable the candidate to enhance your personal development and increase your understanding of counselling skills theories. The course includes the following topics:

  • Using counselling skills
  • Counselling theories
  • Diversity and ethics in the use of counselling skills
  • Counselling skills and personal development

This is a marked course which requires short essay style answers to allow your assigned marker to be able to identify that you have understood the skills and knowledge to meet the required standards.

Part of this course also requires you to be either recorded on video holding a counselling session, or to be able to obtain a witness statement from someone in a counsellor role or that has counselling qualifications. 

This is an online course with online learning materials and assessments, you will be emailed with a login to access the course

What qualifications do I need?

There are no formal entry requirements for this course, however, as it is delivered online it would be beneficial if the candidate had basic competence in IT and the internet.

This course does not require a personal statement.

What can I do after?

This course provides progression to further online learning programmes. It is also a good starting point for those individuals who are interested in entering a career in the health and social care sectors.

Programme Information

Course hours: 160

Number of weeks: 20

You could complete in 10 weeks or use the full 20 weeks - it's up to you

Please be aware that you could be withdrawn from your course if submission dates are vastly overdue. If at any point you are struggling with deadlines you should contact us for an extension which we will assign where possible.

On successful completion and confirmation of results following internal processes, you will receive your college e-certificate which you can print and/or save for your records. Please note a fee may be required if a hard copy certificate is requested

To enrol click HERE