Level 2 Counselling Skills

This is the first step on your journey to become a qualified counsellor. With this qualification you'll practise helping skills and explore basic counselling theory and ethics. Personal development will play a big part as you reflect on your life experience and your place in the learning community. You'll consider: What is important about difference and diversity? How are we different and how does it affect us? This qualification can help in a wide range of jobs such as working with individuals and groups, advocacy roles, colleagues, as well as friends and family. If you want to continue training as a counsellor, it’s preparation to move on to Level 3 and beyond.

This course is based in the Person Centred Approach developed by Carl Rogers, this approach prioritises the client and works to build a therapeutic relationship where healing can occur.

This Qualification is for:

• Those starting the first level of training as a professional counsellor.

• Those who want to learn helping skills in other professional or helping roles.

• Those who want to improve their professional and personal relationships as part of personal development.

• Those who want to develop their understanding of themselves and their way of being.

This qualification could lead increased employability for those whose role is to support others in e.g. health and social care work, teaching and learning, advocacy and mediation, support and project work, other helping roles. It provides additional skills for those already in employment likely to lead to increased opportunities for promotion and advancement.