MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy

This MSc program in Counselling and Psychotherapy aims to equip you with the knowledge and expertise to become professional person-centered/humanistic counselors. The course integrates your counseling skills practice with the academic study of counseling-related theory at the Masters's level and facilitates students personal and professional development, as well as offering you a grounding in research methodology. The course is founded on a person-centered view of personhood and person-centered ways of being and the core training offered by the program is in the person-centered approach. We accept the overwhelming evidence of the theorists that the major factor in helping human beings change in a desired positive direction is a relationship in which they feel safe, valued, and challenged. Therefore, we view the relationship in counseling as central, and support Carl Rogers belief in the €˜self-therapeutic capacity and wisdom of clients. However, we also take a strong €˜anti-schools stance which reflects our sincere respect for other, non-person-centered practices and practitioners. Our starting point for the Keele Counselling Model is thus a unifying ethos that enables us to respect and welcome a diversity of professional skills and orientations. Additionally, the centrality of a secure and constantly reviewed ethical position, based on the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions, is presented to the program members as a major personal responsibility.