Start Date

For next start dates, visit Heartwood’s website

Entry Requirements

You will need to have completed a Level 3 Counselling Certificate or equivalent course, certificates from CCPT and other colleges are accepted.

What you will learn

What you will learn

The course runs over two years, with the emphasis in year one being on safeguarding, skills building, confidence and self awareness. And in year two we deepen our theoretical knowledge, explore some of the more challenging aspects of client work, and focus on professional practice.

Throughout the course we will further advance our counselling skills focusing on; skills based triad work, managing anger in the therapy room, giving and receiving feedback, working with sexual issues, working with suicidal clients, working with self-harm and practising interventions.

Visit Heartwood’s website for full details of course content and assessment.

Throughout both years there is a focus on your own personal growth and development. Our tutors are fully qualified counsellors and will encourage you to seek out the more authentic you, and to celebrate your difference, uniqueness and honour the life challenges that will enable you to work effectively and from the heart.

Content

Level 4 will develop a deep understanding of:

• Person Centred Approach
• Gestalt Theory
• Mindfulness based CBT
• Attachment Theory
• The Inner Child
• Trauma concepts
• Transference and countertransference
• An agency report
• Transactional Analysis
• Working with what lies beneath (implicit processes)
• Integrative approaches
• Working with body processes
• Creative interventions
• Sand-tray
• Difference, diversity and Inclusion

Internal Assessment

The course requires the following:

• Personal counselling (20 sessions and further sessions if required)
• A minimum of 90% attendance on tuition days
• Completion of a learning journal
• Completion of all course assignments
• Demonstration of practical skills throughout
• Active participation in experiential aspects of the training
• Safety, robustness and readiness to practice as a counsellor
• Counselling skills in practice

External Assessment

The course requires the following;

• A case study
• A placement of 100 hours
• A supervisors report

We create a supportive learning environment here at Heartwood and will guide learners through their studies.

How the course works

This attendance-based Diploma is studied part-time over a two-year period.

Entry onto this training is subject to an interview at the centre or over the phone or Skype.

There are three ways you can study this course:

Weekday – at Heartwood
One day a fortnight – 40 sessions over 2 years

Evening – at Heartwood
One evening a week over 2 years plus one weekend per year

Weekend – at Heartwood (Devon or central London)
One weekend per month – 20 weekends across 2 years

Course Length

This attendance-based Diploma in studied part-time over a two-year period.

Entry Requirements

You will need to have completed a Level 3 Counselling Certificate or equivalent course, certificates from CCPT and other colleges are accepted.

Course fee & how to enrol