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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Colchester Campus
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Study mode
Part time
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Start date
SEP-25
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Duration
3 years
Course summary
Do you want to train as a psychodynamic counsellor? Are you looking to develop psychodynamic understanding and skills to broaden and deepen your practice?
This course offers a professional qualification to work therapeutically as a counsellor, either with children and adolescents or with adults You gain thorough theoretical and practical training, including a supervised placement, enabling you to qualify and practise as a counsellor.
This course provides a route to a counselling and psychotherapy qualification for graduates from psychology, sociology, or many other related degrees as well as for established professionals, such as teachers, social workers, nurses and care workers.
In the first year you learn about psychodynamic theory and its applications. In the second year, you take up a placement as trainee counsellor to develop your skills and confidence as a practitioner. You will be placed in an agency such as a school, voluntary organisation, or some other support service. A requirement of this course is that you are in personal therapy or counselling on a weekly basis, and you will need weekly supervision. As part of your course, you are required to attend a conference and may incur associated travel costs.
If you are an EU or EEA national, you will only be able to study a part-time course if you hold settled status in the UK. If you are a non-EEA, and non-UK national, you will only be able to study a part-time course if you hold a UK immigration permission which allows part-time study. If you will need a student visa to study in the UK, then you will not be able to study part-time.
Your future
Graduates from our Graduate Diploma Psychodynamic Counselling who do not continue in the training may well already be professionals, clinical and non-clinical, and will return to their existing fields, either in jobs or further training, and use their learning from the course to deepen their understanding of their work.
Graduates from our MA Psychodynamic Counselling are qualified counsellors who take up positions in many agencies providing counselling to young people. Graduates from our department go on to several different destinations, including further study and training in psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, or psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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University information
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University League Table
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University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, England
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/ Max 213122 57%74th
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/ Max 10063.0 63%55th
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/ Max 43.07 77%53rd
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/ Max 180115 64%61st
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/ Max 10096.0 96%11th
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