Expand+The minimum educational requirement is Leaving certificate with honours in 3 subjects. A lower age limit of 23 years applies.

Candidates are likely to have undertaken personal development courses/workshops and be able to show evidence of most or a...

Hide-The minimum educational requirement is Leaving certificate with honours in 3 subjects. A lower age limit of 23 years applies.

Candidates are likely to have undertaken personal development courses/workshops and be able to show evidence of most or all of the following:

Experience in personal development

Self-awareness, maturity and stability

Ability to make use of and reflect upon life experience

Capacity to cope with the emotional and intellectual demands of the course

Potential to form a therapeutic relationship.

Expand+The aim of the course is to provide a recognised counselling qualification with a strong practical, as well as theoretical basis.

The course embraces Person-Centered, Gestalt, Psychosynthesis, and other styles. Particular emphasis is placed on ski...

Hide-The aim of the course is to provide a recognised counselling qualification with a strong practical, as well as theoretical basis.

The course embraces Person-Centered, Gestalt, Psychosynthesis, and other styles. Particular emphasis is placed on skills and theoretical models concerned with the development of a therapeutic relationship. It is understood that the counsellor’s personal development and personal awareness are central.

Weekend based

Honours degree level 8

Intensive and comprehensive programme

Advanced training methods

Career and practice focused

Experienced trainers with 25 years experience

Programme includes training in couples counselling and addiction counselling

Mature applicants encouraged

Clinically- based practical programme

In-house client-work placement at Tivoli Institute

Placements nationwide for client work

Strong student support structures

Fully validated

Course Recognition
The BA(Hons) in Counselling is designed to fully meet the criteria and guidelines currently available.

The area of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Ireland will shortly be governed by a new Statutory Registration regime. Under these new arrangements there will be separate registers for counselling and for psychotherapy. The professional titles ‘Counsellor’ and ‘Psychotherapist’ will be protected by law. Only those who are members of the new registers will be entitled to use these titles.

We anticipate that the requirements for statutory registration for entrance to the counselling register from about 2020 onwards will be a BA degree level 8, validated by QQI or equivalent (ie an Irish University or IT). It’s important to note that the existing professional bodies eg IACP, ICP, IAHIP etc will not have any accrediting powers whatsoever under the new arrangements and they will therefore become voluntary membership organisations only.

Qualification
BA(Hons) in Counselling This is a level 8 qualification on the NFQ and is fully validated.

Expand+There are seven main elements: (See module details here)

Theory

Personal Therapy

Skills

Peer Group

Practice with clients

Experiential group work

Supervision (in relation to client practice).

Peer/Practice Group
Students meet ...

Hide-There are seven main elements: (See module details here)

Theory

Personal Therapy

Skills

Peer Group

Practice with clients

Experiential group work

Supervision (in relation to client practice).

Peer/Practice Group
Students meet bi-monthly (or more frequently if possible) in small groups mainly for skills practice which is monitored by trainers.

Experiential Group Work
Experiential group work affords an opportunity to explore personal and interpersonal issues within a group context.

Personal Therapy
Trainees are expected to have at least 100 hours of personal therapy on an individual basis during the course. Arrangements are in place to help students access reduced cost personal therapy where practicable.

Practice with Clients
Students undertake to work with clients which are provided directly by the Institute or in placement situations. The student is responsible for the completion of client work.

Supervision of client-work
Trainees will be supervised on their client work in two ways. Supervision will take place in small groups as part of the training weekends. Some external supervision may also be required

Year 1
1. Counselling Skills

2. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

3. Psychosynthesis

4. Humanistic Counselling

5. Process Group 1

6. Personal Development

Year 2
1. Supervision and Client Work

2. Psychodynamic Theory

3. Addiction Counselling

4. External Supervision

5. Personal Development

6. Process Group 2

Year 3
1. Process Group 3

2. Systems Theory and Couples Counselling

3. Ethics and Professional Issues

4. External Supervision

5. Personal Development

6. Dissertation

7. Supervision and Client Work