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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The subjects were applicable to many situations and the notes easily understandable and well laid out.

Carol Y · 18 Jun 2019
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The course made distant learning easy and manageable.

Jennifer Y · 03 Jun 2019
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I feel the list of recommended reading should be reviewed as some of the items are difficult to access. In addition more current additional reading list would potentially engage students more effectively.

Sabrina A · 03 Jun 2019
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I feel like it was a good balance of academic but not too academic

Karen H · 31 May 2019
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Just an observation - many of the final assignments had mixed up names of characters, giving, for example, an anecdote about 'John' and then asking how one would reply to 'Tony'. It just felt a little less professional....

Scott L · 20 May 2019
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Course content good, but quite awkward accessing via lengthy PDF documents. Provision of on-line course material with more interactivity would have been preferable.

Nicola W · 01 May 2019
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Very easy to follow-only criticism is that proof reading is needed & a lot of web addresses are no longer available, so updating required.

Y S · 24 Apr 2019
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I think I said this last time - the course text was basically good but, in my opinion, needs re-editing to improve consistency and remove repetitions and Increase clarity.

Jane W · 24 Apr 2019
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Response: Thank you for your feedback Jane.

I found the pdf files difficult to follow and therefore ordered the paper files. I think the course would benefit from the materials being more interactive. For example, you watch a mentoring/coaching interaction video rather than read a transcript. This also helps to consider non-verbal communication and use of self commonly discussed in the modules.

Jodi T · 23 Apr 2019
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Response: Hello Jodi, thank you for your feedback. we will take your feedback into consideration for future course updates.

i live and work in an area where it is quite difficult to access to public libraries and good resources including books therefore i believe more of material including notes should be offered

Rafia B · 16 Apr 2019
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Response: Thank you for your feedback Rafia we will look into this when applying future updates to our courses.