Certificate in Counselling Reviews

The materials were helpful and very informative, the self test exercises as well as the assignments were challenging and a good learning experience. My tutor was very helpful.

I have never done distance learning before, but felt very motivated and supported by the tutor's feedback and the material was easy to access and well structured.

I feel like it was a good balance of academic but not too academic

I thought it was a great cross section. I think in this day and age there was too much on Christian focused pastoral care. I believe that pastoral care is important but it needs to show more diversity.

Course content was very detail with good links to external reading.

This course gave me a wonderful chance to improve my empathy skills, by getting into the mind of my clients and learning from their perspectives, as well as my ability to structure my counselling sessions better overall.

I wish it was broken down more . It all felt too long somehow.

I really liked the introduction to the different counselling approaches very much, and this is one of the reasons why I chose the course in the first place. The second section was a little surprising to me in that it seemed to get into quite advanced skills very quickly although it is a basic course. Perhaps it is just my too-literal mindset but it bothered me a little that it said somewhere in the course text that advanced empathy is not for the first appointment for the client and yet the advanced empathy assignment situation was with a new client.

The downloadable resources were fine; as mentioned above, the YouTube clips were a little dated and sometimes a little tricky to find.

The course content and materials were of high quality. Many relevant reverences were also provide to deepen student understanding of the topics.