Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (TC-L4)
Course Modules
- Ethical practice
- Ethical Framework
- Develop an ethical counselling relationship
- Developing and evaluating own practice
- User centred contract
- Legal issues
- Boundary issues & dilemmas
- Awareness of personal limitations
- Importance of Self Awareness
- Emergence of Self-structure
- Self Processing
- Self-Care
- Core Theories:-
- Person-Centered
- Humanistic
- Transpersonal
- Psychosynthesis
- Gestalt
- Eco- psychology, community building, resolutions
- Human growth and developmental stages
- Evaluate research into psychotherapy and counselling
- Sustained attention and deep listening
- Empathy & presence
- Congruence- Buber
- Unspoken agenda- Emotional warmth- Carkhuff & Truax
- Transference and Counter transference
- Dynamics within the therapeutic relationship
- Difference between own personal world and clients world.
- Difference and Diversity
- Cultural diversity
- Cultural Awareness
- Working with shock and trauma
- Working with sexual abuse
- Sexuality in Counselling-Tantric energy
- Self harm, Alcohol and drug issues
- Non-violent communication
- Eco- psychology, community building, resolutions
- Family constellations
- Complex boundaries
- Working with 2 people
- Power issues in Counselling
- Working with ending
- Group coherence
- Shadow side to counselling
- Establish and maintain a supervisory relationship, analyse the purpose, roles and functions of supervision.
- Small peer supervision group where trainees can bring their client work.
- Working in Agencies
- Enquiring into mental illness and exploring the boundaries between spiritual emergency and spiritual emergence
- Mental health issues
- Primary Care
- Assessment issues
- Client assessment/ risk assessment
- Suicide
- Spiritual Crises & Spiritual Emergence
- Myths Archetypes and Transpersonal
- The study and energetic research of world religions
- Astrology as the hero’s Journey- the journey to individuation
- Death and the Bardo
- Kabala
- Mindfulness practice
- Guided visualisation and art
- Body connection, grounded-ness, being in the landscape
- Dream work
- integrating the four basic elements in a holistic approach.