Counselling Courses

For course times and details, see the brochure

All Counselling Skills and Counselling courses are now accredited by CPCAB.

Are you interested in counselling skills training?

Swarthmore offers a wide range of counselling skills training including accredited and non-accredited courses, and 1 or 2 day workshops on specialist areas such as Bereavement Counselling and Sensitivity Training for Counsellors. 

We offer national accreditations approved by QCA, providing progression from Introduction to Diploma level.

The training focuses on the practical skills of listening, reflecting and paraphrasing with an exploration of the person-centred philosophy of accepting, acknowledging and empowering the client.

Alongside this are the opportunities for growth in personal awareness and sensitivity necessary for those intending to use counselling skills in helping situations. in order to model the person-centred skills we teach, we use student-centred for learning methods.

As well as offering already established courses for interested individuals, we are able to customise any of our existing courses or design new workshops to meet the specific needs of organisations.

If you are such an organisation, we should be very interested to learn from you, as a potential user, what are your training needs in this area.
For more information please contact Maggi Butterworth.

Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling

Information & Application Documents for this course can be found below. All files are in Microsoft Word (.doc) format.

Applicant Information
Application Form

Certificate in Counselling Skills

Information & Application Documents for this course can be found below. All files are in Microsoft Word (.doc) format.

Applicant Information
Application Form

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