Institute of Counselling reviews

4.6 (483 reviews)
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Personal tutor support is the clearest strength attendees identify: tutors are approachable, patient and responsive, offering clear, constructive feedback that builds confidence. They find the distance-learning courses well structured, accessible and flexible around work, with clear explanations, exercises, case studies and assignments that connect theory to practice and strengthen their work with clients. Materials are informative and useful for revisiting learning, while the overall experience is encouraging and engaging. Some attendees find the PDFs, instructions and links need updating or clearer presentation.

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Quite a lot of the recommended websites were no longer in use. Being overseas access to English library facilities non existent, and so buying books to read proves expensive, and difficult to decide which would be the most useful, impossible to buy all that are recommended reading, obviously. I am pleased that I have been able to complete a counselling diploma whilst being in France, but can see why there are so few options to do these courses online. I feel that it is necessary to have class room sessions to discuss and work through subjects. Online studying of these subjects has its limits.

Gina G · 09 Sep 2019
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I gained a great deal from Grief and loss as a over arching subject. Transferring the theory to every day life and awareness has pushed me through a gate that I can never go back through. Once you know, YOU KNOW.

Lorna S · 04 Sep 2019
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Useful course, very enjoyable

Gemma E · 28 Aug 2019
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I sometimes found the structure of the marked assignments confusing. But if I'd had a better rapport with my tutor, I would probably have asked for clarification. I would like to add that my husband did the same course last year, and he was very happy with his tutor.

Lucinda N · 03 Aug 2019
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Rich, very comprehensive and easy to follow

IBIDUN A · 29 Jul 2019
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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.

Nichola T · 21 Jul 2019
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course content materials were good, my only criticism is the initial instructions were hard to understand what was expected.

Deb F · 02 Jul 2019
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There was a lot of useful content in the diploma in youth counselling course but I felt that it would have helped to have seen some more examples/ role plays of counselling conversations in practice

Georgina H · 27 Jun 2019
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I thoroughly enjoyed this course and found it very useful. I thought there were ample opportunities for practical application as well as theoretical.

Kathryn M · 24 Jun 2019
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The course content was good. Reference to particular chapters in the texts might be helpful. More online resources eg YouTube, would be useful.

Stephen G · 18 Jun 2019
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