Maybe you are the one people talk to when things go wrong. This course teaches listening, questioning, reflection and finding solutions. It is an introduction to the field, open to beginners.
Reflection, questioning and bonding are skills you can learn.
Support, care and community roles lean on these every day.
A low cost way to see if this field is yours.
Support work runs on people who can listen without fixing too fast. Days look like conversations, referrals, notes and steady follow up.
Support a service with intake and admin.
Walk beside people with shared experience.
Work with young people through a service.
Meet people where they are and connect them.
Support clients through daily care work.
Keep a support team running day to day.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every job is different. Counselling roles in Ireland need approved study, supervised practice and registration.
Seven skills, taught in the order a conversation moves.
Three things to know first.
Listening, reflection, questioning, normalising and finding solutions.
How a counselling relationship closes gets its own topic.
A year of student membership with the International Association for Counselling.
Plus a year of association membership
Issued by the college when you finish.
A year with the International Association for Counselling.
Credits that count toward professional growth.
Support work, further study, or skills for now.
An advisor is straight about what this does not do.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Enrol and open the first topics.
None at all. This is written as an introduction to the field.
Six months of access, and around one hundred hours of material.
None, ever. You move through the topics at your own speed.
Listening, bonding, reflection, questioning, normalising, solutions and endings.
This is a low cost way to test the field before committing years. It does not qualify you to practise as a counsellor or psychotherapist in Ireland, and gives no route to registration. What you gain is the micro skills, and a clear view of whether the longer road is yours.
A Certificate of Achievement, plus a year of association membership.
It is industry accredited through ICOES and the CPD Standards Office. It is not a QQI course and not a national award. It is not recognised for professional registration in Ireland. As a first course in counselling skills, that is the honest shape of it.
There is a fourteen day money back window, minus the administration fee.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy.
Its counselling courses are industry accredited through ICOES and the CPD Standards Office. The college is also a member of the International Approval and Recognition Council.
Picture the person across from you who finally feels heard.