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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Overall good and all the information needed was included with in resources

sangita K · 26 Sep 2018
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Great course materials although the link to the referencing aid did not work and I had to ask Marie for some assistance! Overall topics were clear and interesting and presented well.

Rory F · 18 Sep 2018
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Easy to understand material and what was required for each assignment.

Sandra G · 17 Sep 2018
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Very thorough with plenty of recommendations for relevant further reading.

Jean B · 17 Sep 2018
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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.

Jane W · 06 Sep 2018
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Perhaps some video material would help. But the theoretical aspects were very adequate. The assessment questions relevant and dynamic.

Anthony D · 03 Sep 2018
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I am now on my third course with the institute and am already anticipating more.

Kim P · 03 Sep 2018
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The downloadable resources were fine; as mentioned above, the YouTube clips were a little dated and sometimes a little tricky to find.

Philip G · 16 Aug 2018
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See comment one above

Brenda H · 30 Jul 2018
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The materials will continue to be relevant if after the course and dur8ng practical work.

Josephine A · 26 Jul 2018
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