If you want a broad grounding in how people think and heal, this is the long version. Six programmes take you from psychology basics through counselling skills, techniques and professional practice. Tutors answer by phone and email.
Six programmes instead of one short course.
The models, then the room they get used in.
Grief, depression, aggression and suicide.
Community teams and support services use this thinking every day. The college calls it a starting point and suggests further training or a placement.
Keep a local service running day to day.
Sit with people through the ordinary hard days.
Work alongside young people in a service.
Use your own road to help someone else.
Roles where these skills help, not promised outcomes. Counselling roles in Ireland need approved study and registration.
Six programmes run from psychology basics through to professional practice.
What the six parts add up to.
Freud, Adler, Gestalt, CBT and solution focused work.
Confidentiality, referral and knowing your limits.
Amore, Dana and Rita answer your questions.
Plus a year of association membership
Issued by the college when you finish.
A year with the International Association for Counselling.
Job listings, CV review and interview prep.
Support work now, or formal study later.
An advisor will be straight about registration.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Enrol and open the first programme.
None at all. You need not be working in the field either.
Twelve months of access, and around three hundred hours of material.
None, ever. You move through the six programmes at your own speed.
Psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavioural, solution focused and CBT.
It carries ICOES and CPD Standards Office accreditation. It is not a QQI course and not a national award. It is not approved for professional registration in Ireland.
It gives you a broad and honest grounding. There is no supervised clinical training in it, so it does not qualify you to practise as a counsellor or psychotherapist here. Many students use it before formal study.
That call sits with the institution you apply to. The college cannot promise credit or advanced standing.
A course advisor. Tell them your plan and ask if this fits.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy.
Tutors on this diploma include Amore C, Dana L and Rita T. Its courses are accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office.
Picture the hour where you finally know what to say next.