Counselling FdA course

Our FdA Counselling course provides professional training and equips you with a sound theoretical framework and the practitioner skills required to work safely and effectively as a counsellor. The programme adopts a personal-centred approach with aspects of psychodynamic and cognitive behaviour therapy explored as comparative approaches.

2027-28 entry requirements For Clearing 2026 entry requirements, please refer to the information in the box above. Grade C (or 4) English GCSE and a QCF Level 3 achievement or equivalent in counselling. Prospective students with a minimum of two years’ counselling experience within a counselling agency, supported by agency/work-based or subject-specific training and mentoring will be considered following a successful interview. You are required to complete 100 practice hours in a supervised placement setting by the end of the second year of the course, and to undertake 20 hours of personal therapy during the course (ten hours for each year of the course), which will cost approximately £30 per session. You need to provide written references from two sources to demonstrate your appropriateness to undertake professional counselling training and your ability to cope with the academic requirements. You will be asked to declare any criminal convictions and be aware that DBS enhanced checks f

UK students: £6,500 per year

UK/Home: £6,500 per year

September

UCAS equal consideration deadline

• Middlesbrough, UK, United Kingdom