Counselling Skills is an online course that entails the practical and psychological side of the counselling process. Through this program, you will learn the following:

• Underlying theories of counselling
• Understand a broad range of counselling techniques beneficial for anyone working with people in a social, workplace or recreational environment.
• Apply the counselling techniques in your day to day life.

Learn counselling skills in the comfort of your own home through our distance learning setting. Develop an understanding of the fundamental practical skills used in counselling. Completion of this course will equip you to conduct counselling sessions.

Our lessons are self-paced and run for a duration of 100 hours, after completion, you will then gain a Careerline Certificate in COUNSELLING SKILLS A.

Course Aims:

• Explain the processes involved in the training of counsellors in micro skills.
• Explain how to commence the counselling process and evaluation of non-verbal responses and minimal responses.
• Discuss both content and feeling, and their appropriateness to the counselling process.
• Demonstrate different questioning techniques and to understand risks involved with some types of questioning.
• Demonstrate how to use various micro-skills including summarising, confrontation, and reframing.
• Demonstrate self-destructive beliefs and show methods of challenging them, including normalising.
• Explain how counselling a client can improve their psychological well-being through making choices, overcoming psychological blocks and facilitating actions.
• Demonstrate effective ways of terminating a counselling session and to explain ways of addressing dependency.

Detailed Course Outline

This course is made up of a number of lessons or units. Each of these has self assessment questions, a set task (practical homework) and an assignment which you can upload online.

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Learning Specific Skills
2. Listening and Bonding
3. Reflection
4. Questioning
5. Interview Techniques
6. Changing Beliefs and Normalising
7. Finding Solutions
8. Ending the Counselling Session

When you have completed the lessons of your Certificate course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It’s okay if you don’t want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.