Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills
Deliver a better all-round service by forming deeper professional relationships with your clients, customers, colleagues, staff, and service users.
Duration
10 face-to-face days over 3 months
Funding Requirements
Funding is currently available to Tees Valley residents or individuals who live or work in a Sunderland postcode area. See full funding requirements here.
Qualification
NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills
Course Overview
Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills is designed to develop counselling skills, increase self-awareness and implement self-care. The course includes theory and practical sessions providing you realistic experiences to become a confident, skilled and professional helper.
What To Expect
The course structure is carefully crafted to increase your self-awareness, develop your ability to employ counselling skills responsibly, and encourage continuous personal development. Our program ensures a supportive learning environment where you will practice these skills through realistic scenarios.
What’s more, you will learn the importance of self-care, a vital element in your journey towards becoming a professional helper. You will be encouraged to reflect on your values, beliefs, and behaviours to foster growth, not only as a professional but also on a personal level.
What You’ll Learn
- Developing Counselling Skills: Gain hands-on experience in listening, reflecting, and responding to others effectively.
- Theoretical Approaches to Counselling: Understand various counselling theories and how they inform practice.
- Working Ethically with Counselling Skills: Learn the ethical framework that underpins professional counselling practice and the application of these principles.
- Counselling Skills and Diversity: Explore diversity issues and develop the ability to work inclusively with clients from various backgrounds.
- Personal Development: Reflect on your personal growth and learn how to intertwine your learned counselling skills into your daily interactions and self-care.
Who Should Take This Course
People who find this course particularly useful are those in a functional role, for example: personal trainers, nurses, life coaches, carers, human resources, teaching, and anyone who has ambitions to go on to become a counsellor. The applications of this course are so wide ranging since the key skills (reflection, communication, relationship building, listening, trust) are essential for so many people in so many industries.
Please note, this course alone is not a route to the Accredited Register nor does it fully equip you to practice as a qualified counsellor. In order to fully qualify, you would need to progress onto attendance Level 4 (or equivalent) training.
Course Reviews
Key information:
Course length: Total of 10 face-to-face days over 3 months.
Qualification: NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills
Course availability: Click here to check our next starting date.
Cost: Fully funded for eligible residents.
Funding requirements:
Tees Valley
Tees Valley resident. 24 years old and over. Plus ONE of the following; earn less than £33,210 per year OR not have a full level 3 qualification or above.
Sunderland
Must live or work in a Sunderland postcode plus one of the following; aged 19 to 23 who have not previously achieved a full level 3 qualification, regardless of the earnings threshold or be 19+ unemployed OR employed/selfemployed earning less than £25,000 without a level 3 qualification
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