MA Integrative Counselling Part-time

Counsellors work in a wide range of settings, from private practice to charitable organisations and public-sector services. If you’re motivated to support people experiencing emotional, relational, or mental-health difficulties, this course will help you build the professional skills and reflective capacity needed for effective practice. You’ll develop strong reflexive and anti-oppressive practice, learning to work ethically, creatively, and with an awareness of diversity, difference, and the role of self in the counselling relationship. A key feature of the course is its focus on contemporary mental-health discourses and the counsellor’s role within modern services. In your second year, you may choose to specialise in counselling children and young people or counselling adults (subject to numbers), with your award reflecting your chosen pathway. Teaching is delivered by experienced practitioners and supported by staff engaged in current research.

IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in each component) — standard University of Sunderland requirement (source: sunderland.ac.uk/how-to-apply/english-language-requirements)

International students: £19,000 per year

UK students: £9,250 per year

September 2026

No fixed deadline — apply at least 6 months before your start date via the University's direct application portal.

• On campus, United Kingdom