DPT: Psychotherapy and Counselling (DPsych) - 4 Years (Full-time) (PTDPYPSYCO2F)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

1. Readiness for Counselling Practice (CNST11098) must be passed in order to commence Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 1A (CNST12021).
2. Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 1A (CNST12021) must be passed to allow progression to Year 2 of the programme.

Compulsory courses

The Counselling Relationship: Theory, Practice and Process (MCouns)

Beginnings in Counselling Practice

Developing Narratives of Self

Ethics in Counselling Practice

Between Counselling and Research 1: Approaches, Issues and Debates (L12)

The Group in the Development of the Self and Others : A Person-Centred Perspective (MCouns)

Difference, diversity and power in counselling practice (20 credits)

Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 1A

Counselling and Psychotherapy Placement 1B

Readiness for Counselling Practice

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Students who complete all the course work and professional requirements of the first two years of the full-time programme may exit with the award of Pg Diploma in Counselling. This is both an academic and a professional qualification at postgraduate diploma level.