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Counselling - FdA

Teesside University

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Course options

3 options available

  • Qualification

    Foundation Degree in Arts - FdA

  • Location

    Stockton Riverside College

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    2 Years

Course summary


Note: Due to the course delivery location and visa restrictions, this course is NOT available to international students requiring a Student Visa.


Location

: This is a 2 year full-time award of Teesside University delivered in partnership with Stockton Riverside College (campus code 3), Hartlepool College of Further Education (campus code 5) and Darlington College (campus code 1).


Course overview

: Our FdA Counselling course provides professional training and equips you with a sound theoretical framework and the practitioner skills required to work safely and effectively as a counsellor. The programme adopts a personal-centred approach with aspects of psychodynamic and cognitive behaviour therapy explored as comparative approaches.You are required to undertake a minimum of 100 hours of supervised clinical practice with a recognised counselling agency, and undertake a minimum of 20 hours (10 hours in each year) of personal therapy. You are expected to attend two mandatory weekend workshops each year, for which there is a fee.


After the course

: Your employability skills will be directly addressed through the professionally related curriculum of the programme in relation to the requirements of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and through the professional reflection aspect of assignments.This course will allow you to consolidate learning in practical counselling techniques, informed by the theory of counselling practice. We hope that you will be able to develop skills and training and add to the knowledge and skills base in order to develop as professionals. Graduates will also be encouraged to work towards accreditation with the BACP.

Application deadline

14/01/2026

Tuition fees

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University information

Teesside University

Teesside University

  • University League Table

    87th

  • Campus address

    Teesside University Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, TS1 3BX, United Kingdom

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Teesside University offers a range of scholarships to make the transition to UK study more affordable.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Social Work

    21st out of 75 8

  • Entry standards

    / Max 178
    109 61%

    47th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    98.0 98%

    8th

    22

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.63 91%

    1st

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