After completing the Level 3 qualification, you will be able to register with a counselling organisation and start to gain practical experience.

Please note that this qualification is only open to students aged 19 and over.

• Overview

  This qualification is made up of credit rated units developed in association with Skills for Health, the Sector Skills Council for the Health and Social Care Sector. It develops a repertoire of interpersonal skills and counselling skills, promotes personal growth and provides essential industry knowledge to help learners make informed career decisions.

• Units/Modules

  Learners will complete this qualification with a concrete understanding of the following:

  • How to identify, practice and develop a range of interpersonal and counselling skills.
  • The main theoretical approaches to counselling.
  • Diversity and the meaning of discrimination.
  • Ethical frameworks, including the importance of setting and ethical referrals
  • How to reflect on personal development and identify areas for future development.

  The following five units must be completed to enable you to progress to Level 4:

  • Counselling skills and diversity
  • Working ethically with counselling skills
  • Developing counselling skills
  • Theoretical approaches in the use of counselling skills
  • Counselling skills and personal development

• Benefits/Skills

  This course offers the opportunity to develop your counselling skills and your knowledge of various theoretical approaches, whilst also allowing you to work on your self-awareness and personal development.

• Careers/Progression

  Upon completion of this qualification, you may wish to progress onto a Level 4 Diploma in Counselling with another provider.