Regents University London - Psychotherapy & Counselling Certificate

Regents University London

Psychotherapy & Counselling Certificate

  • Course Starts In Jan 2023 and April 2023.

This course offers a solid grounding in psychotherapy and counselling theory and skills. It combines academic, practical and experiential components within a supportive and challenging environment.   

You will build your understanding of a range of psychotherapy and counselling theories, with a focus on existential, psychodynamic and humanistic integrative perspectives, as well as cognitive behavioural approaches.   

You will explore the practical and ethical issues of working with clients in a variety of situations, and develop essential communication and counselling skills. You will learn to apply academic theory through skills practice sessions and group work.  

The course will encourage you to examine your beliefs, assumptions and prejudices and develop your capacity to reflect on your own interpersonal and emotional processes, patterns and experiences.  

As well as providing a solid background for those wishing to apply for further professional training, the course offers those who already work in the helping professions the opportunity to develop their interpersonal skills. 

Career Prospects

For most of our students, the next step is to take a Master's level programme. Successful completion of this programme will enable you to meet one of the main entry requirements for our MA Psychotherapy & Counselling.

Course Details

There are two options for completing the Certificate in Psychotherapy & Counselling. You can choose to study part time for one year, or undertake a part time or full time intensive programme.

The one-year Certificate consists of one four-hour session per week over three 10-week terms. We have three intakes each year in January, April and September.


One Year Syllabus

Module 1 - Therapy before Therapists
Module 1 - A Way of Working: An Overview of Humanistic Therapy
Module 1 - An Introduction to the Work of Carl Rogers
Module 1 - Introduction to Gestalt Therapy: The Work of Fritz Perls
Module 1 - The Body in Humanistic Therapy
Module 1 - Describing Ourselves: The Fundamentals of Phenomenology
Module 1 - Power, Gender and Race in Therapy
Module 1 - Society, Biology and Reality
Module 2 - Facing the Unknown: Consciousness and Unconsciousness
Module 2 - The Work of Sigmund Freud
Module 2 - Melanie Klein and Object Relations Theory
Module 2 - The Role of the Group
Module 2 - The Work of Carl Jung
Module 2 - Finding Your Place in Life: the Work of Alfred Adler
Module 2 - All in the mind? The impact of psychobiology
Module 2 - The Existential Alternative: a Challenge to Psychoanalysis
Module 2 - Working with Dreams
Module 3 - The Frame in Therapy
Module 3 - The Profession of Therapy
Module 3 - Transcultural Counselling
Module 3 - A Spiritual Life
Module 3 - Mental Health and Mental Illness
Module 3 - A Matter of Ethics
Module 3 - Eating, Addiction and Dependency
Module 3 - Putting Theory into Practice
Module 3 - Working with Loss and Bereavement

Spring and Autumn Intensive Syllabus

Module 1 - Introduction: Counselling in context
Module 1 - Phenomenology
Module 1 - Being-with-the-Other and the Therapeutic Relationship
Module 1 - Humanistic approaches
Module 2 - Cognitive-Behavioral approaches
Module 2 - Psychoanalysis: Freudian Foundations
Module 3 - Groups Existential psychotherapy
Module 4 - Freud & Beyond
Module 4 - Klein and Object Relations
Module 5 - Psychobiology
Module 5 - Attachment
Module 5 – Gestalt
Module 6 - Madness – Mental health/Mental Illness
Module 6 – Ethics
Module 7 - Loss and Bereavement
Module 7 - Use and Abuse of Power in the Therapeutic
Module 7 - Relationship
Module 7 - The Therapeutic Frame: Theory into Practice
Module 7 - Psychotherapy Integration
Module 7 - Endings

Winter Intensive Syllabus

Module 1 - Introduction: Counselling in Context
Module 2 - Humanistic Approaches
Module 2 - Freudian Foundations
Module 3 - Klein and Object Relations
Module 3 - Freud and Beyond
Module 4 - Psychobiology and Attachment Phenomenology
Module 5 - Gestalt and other approaches
Module 5 - Existential Psychotherapy
Module 6 - Groups
Module 6 - Use and Abuse of Power in the Therapeutic Relationship
Module 7 - Cognitive Behavioral Approaches
Module 7 – Ethics
Module 8 - Integrative
Module 8 - Loss and Bereavement
Module 9 - Madness
Module 9 - Theory into Practice
Module 9 - The Therapeutic Frame
Module 10 - Being with the other in the Therapeutic Relationship
Module 10 - Endings

Summer Intensive Syllabus

Module 1 - Introduction
Module 1 - Therapy in Context
Module 1 - Phenomenology
Module 1 - Power and Knowledge
Module 1 - The Humanistic Approach
Module 2 - Carl Rogers and Person-Centred Therapy
Module 2 - Existentialism
Module 2 - Gestalt
Module 2 - CBT
Module 2 - Group Therapy
Module 3 - Freud: Conscious and Unconscious
Module 3 - Jung
Module 3 - Object Relations
Module 4 - Attachment
Module 4 - The Body
Module 4 - Gender & Sexuality
Module 4 - Loss and Bereavement
Module 4 - Madness
Module 5 - Culture
Module 5 - Ethics
Module 5 - Integration
Module 5 - The Frame
Module 5 - Endings

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