Level 2 - Certificate in Counselling Skills

Take the first steps to become a counsellor with our Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills Course. This course is composed of 3 units and after completion you can class yourself as a 'helper'. This means you will be able to use basic counselling skills within a safe and ethical environment, you will have an understanding of Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred counselling approach and lastly, you will have developed a more comprehensive awareness of yourself. 
This course is delivered fully online via weekly group sessions with fellow students and one of our highly experienced tutors.
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  • Level
    Beginner
  • Total course time
    90 hours
  • Entry requirements
    19+
  • Units
    3
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Why learn with JHD?

"JHD are once again commended for maintaining their outstanding standards and quality of teaching and assessment. Reaching standards of excellence requires commitment, strong management and experienced tutors who can use their skills of teaching and assessment to prepare students and trainees for practice within the counselling arena. It requires more of the same to retain those standards - this Report can confirm that JHD have been successful in furthering their reputation as a centre of excellence in the delivery of its suite of counselling training programmes, which are now recognised by the NCC Education Ltd. 
JHD is once again commended for its outstanding performance as a Counselling Training Provider."

- EXTERNAL VERIFIER’S/EXAMINER’S
REPORT FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR
2021-22
 Our training centre has been awarded outstanding with commendation for the last five years running
  
 We are partnered with NCC Education Ltd, an Ofqual regulated and internationally recognised awarding organisation

 NCC Education endorse, validate and certificate all JHD courses 

 Our tutors are experienced training practitioners and current practising counsellors

 Our tutors mirror the client-counsellor relationship

 Our courses currently meet BACP and NCS recommended training guidelines and current membership criteria

  Following our courses through to Level 4 Diploma will ensure you are able to practice as a fully qualified counsellor 
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Course Details

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Course details:

Start date: September 2022 (date TBC)

Time: 6:15pm - 9:15pm

End date: June 2023 (date TBC)

Duration: 1 year course spanning over 30 weeks. Our courses are term time only

Study method: Weekly live online sessions with fellow students and one of our highly experienced tutors

Course requirements: A computer with internet access

Age requirement: 19+

Fees:

Deposit: £100 upon booking (non-refundable)

Total course cost: £1200.00

Finance options:
Option 1 - course paid in full
Option 2 - monthly instalments of £110.00 starting in September until completion in June. 

No hidden costs. The above cost is inclusive of all tutoring, course materials, marking, help and support for accessing our online sessions and a NCC Education endorsed certificate. 




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Level 3 Certificate
Level: Intermediate
Dates: Evening course Sept - June
Total course hours: 150 hours
Cost: £2000.00
Overview:
Our level 3 course will develop your counselling skills and give you a deeper understanding of counselling theories. There are 3 core units which cover:
  • Developing counselling skills
  • Counselling approaches within the 3 main theoretical models
  • Personal developments 


    Level 4 Diploma
    Dates: Evening course Sept - June, over 2 years
    Total course hours: 240 hours
    Cost: £4000.00
    Overview:
    Our level 4 course will give you the skills, knowledge and competence to work as a fully qualified counsellor. There are 6 core units which cover:
    • Developing a core Humanistic model
    • Working with children and young people
    • Preparing for working with clients safely and ethically
    • Working within a counselling organisation
    • Supervision
    • Self-awareness

    OR

    Level 3/4 Certificate and Diploma
    Level: Intermediate
    Dates: Full day course Sept - June, over 2 years
    Total course hours: 150 hours
    Cost: £6000
    The difference
    Our level 3/4 course covers all of above elements and starts to cover level 4 during your first year. During the second year it covers all of the above level 4 elements. 
    Our level 3/4 runs over one full day a week for two years. 
    Level 4 Diploma - Fast track
    Level: Advanced
    Dates: Full day course Sept - June, over 1 year
    Total course hours: 240 hours
    Cost: £4000
    The difference
    Our level 4 fast track course covers all of the above elements but takes place over one full day a week spanning over 1 year. 


    Contact us

    Thank you for reading about our Level Two Certificate in Counselling Skills course. 

    If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to get in touch with us here 
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    Email:
    secretary@jhdcounselling.co.uk

    Telephone:
    07871671428

    Training venue:
    Madingley Hall,
    Madingley,
    Cambridge
    CB23 8QA

    Course Content

    Level 2 Course Specification - During this course you will learn all the below elements:

    Unit One: Develop an ability to 'help' using the core counselling skills within strict, ethical boundaries:
    • Understand the importance contracting
    • Reflect on personal moral qualities and safe ethical practice
    • Demonstrate an understanding of commencing a 'helping' relationship
    • Develop and explore an awareness of personal limitations
    • Show and understanding of the importance of self-care
    • Demonstrate core counselling skills to begin, develop and maintain a helping interaction
    • Demonstrate a 'helping' interaction within a structured framework
    • Reflect on the importance of endings
    • Reflect on personal responses to endings.

    Unit Two: Introduction to Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred approach to counselling:
    • Understand the meaning of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard
    • Reflect on own responses to beliefs and values around issues of difference and diversity
    • Reflect on differences between helper and helpee which may affect the helping interaction
    • Demonstrate empathic understanding understanding within a helping interaction 
    • Demonstrate non-judgement within a helping interaction
    • Demonstrate congruence within a helping interaction
    • Reflect on difficulties of demonstrating the 3 core conditions within a helping interaction.

    Unit Three: Developing Self-Awareness:
    • Develop a greater sense of self
    • Develop an understanding of personality and history and how it has shaped the present
    • Demonstrate leaving own reactions aside to focus on the helpee
    • Develop awareness of self during the helper role
    • Demonstrate how greater self-awareness enhances the role of the helper.
    Assessment methods:
    • Reflective weekly journals
    • Peer and tutor observations
    • Research task
    • Homework assignments
    • Skills assessment
    • 1-2-1 tutorial

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