Modular Certificate in Counselling Skills

The certificate is designed for people who wish to develop their counselling skills and self awareness for use at work and for their own personal growth. It is particularly appropriate for anyone who works with people in a professional or voluntary capacity. The course is a training in using a counselling approach, and can be used as a first step towards qualification as a counsellor.

The course is experiential. Trainees need to be willing to participate in their own learning process and in the learning of their peers.

All Rowan trainers are practising counsellors and have experience of using counselling skills in other professions. They are also experienced trainers. The direct counselling practice of the tutors helps to inform and enhance the training offered by Rowan. Each group will consist of between nine and eighteen trainees and have two trainers for larger groups.

Each 30-hour module includes written and practical assessment. Trainees need to demonstrate competence in the learning outcomes of each module, before proceeding to the next module.

COSCA is the national body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland. For further details on COSCA and this certificate see www.cosca.org.uk.

Rowan has been awarded full validation by COSCA to deliver this certificate.

• Concepts of counselling and counselling skills
• Attending and responding skills
• The importance of self awareness and personal growth
• The ethical framework of a counselling approach
  
  

• Beginnings, middles and endings
• Theories of loss and change
• Self awareness of personal motives and values
• Ethical boundaries
• Sexuality

• Counselling theories of person-centred, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural approaches
• The ethos of power and care
• The significance of past experiences and relationships
• Spirituality

• The effects of stress
• Responsibilities to self, client agency and community
• Social inclusion
• Knowledge of Gestalt and Transactional Analysis

Module 1 runs twice a year in November held in Dundee, and in February located near Perth.

Module 2 runs every April, Module 3 every September and Module 4 every January. These modules are run in Bridge-of-Earn, near Perth.

To apply for a place please read our booklet and send us a completed booking form together with your application letter stating:

• Your reasons for applying to the course;
• What you will bring to the course;
• What you hope to gain from the course;
• Name, address, contact phone number and date of birth.

A deposit of £60 is required with your application. This will be deducted from the total module fee and is returnable only if your application is unsuccessful. Please make cheques payable to “Rowan Consultancy”.

For cancellations up to 4 weeks before the event, a refund of 50% will be made. No refund will be made thereafter.

Rowan Consultancy is a counselling and training organisation.   Working from a humanistic perspective we offer both short and long-term counselling. We also provide employee counselling schemes and executive coaching.

Rowan is a registered COSCA Counselling Organisation and abides by the COSCA code of practice and the BACP ethical framework.