Certificate in Counselling Skills

This is a comprehensive short course in counselling for those who help people either voluntarily or in the course of their job, vocation or profession. The course is suitable for charity volunteers, nurses, care workers, advice workers, pastors, teachers, doctors, social workers, community workers, police officers, probation officers, lawyers, complementary medicine practitioners, masseurs/ masseuses, coaches, personal trainers, hypnotherapists, funeral directors, managers, hairdressers, beauticians and anyone who finds him/herself often in the position of listening to other people’s problems without a qualification in counselling.

Qualified counsellors and psychotherapists will also benefit from this course, as a refresher and as an appreciation of the common-sense and human core of basic counselling which can be forgotten by those whose training depends heavily on techniques or giving information.

This course focuses on such issues as:

the nature of the counselling relationship,

what to do and what not to do when starting to counsel,

the process of listening,

when to reveal one’s own feelings.

It also provides a useful overview of professional diagnosis by psychologists or psychiatrists, and of what every helper should know about the following:

mental health diagnosis, drugs and alcohol, seriously disturbed people, depression, stress, personality disorders,
counselling persons with sexual problems, HIV/AIDS patients, suicide, death and emergencies.

The course leads to a private UK qualification and certificate awarded by UK College of Holistic Training. UK course graduates may apply to join a professional counselling register run by a counselling-related charity, and obtain a certificate of registration.