Course overview
This 20+ hour course provides a strong foundation in essential counselling skills and the principles of Person-Centred Therapy. Participants learn core therapeutic skills including active listening, empathy, rapport building, reflection, questioning, attending behaviour, confidentiality, counselling ethics and the counselling process. The course explores Carl Rogers' Person-Centred approach — unconditional positive regard, genuineness, congruence and creating a safe therapeutic environment — and, through demonstrations, role plays, worksheets, case discussions and activities, participants develop the ability to establish effective helping relationships and apply person-centred techniques in real-life settings.
Delivered as 20+ hours of live, interactive online training, the course combines lectures with hands-on live practice in real time, in small groups in breakout rooms, plus role plays, worksheets, therapeutic tools and case-study discussions. On successful completion you receive a certificate, having developed the confidence to apply these approaches in counselling, educational, organisational and community settings.