BA (Hons) Counselling and Psychotherapy (Top-Up) at Anglia Ruskin University

Top up your training to a full BA (Hons) and engage in practical research, with this one-year course for qualified counsellors and psychotherapists. Develop your skills, knowledge and clinical practice with a choice of two specialist routes: Counselling Adults or Counselling Children and Young People. Counselling Adults: this is an opportunity to develop your understanding of therapeutic work with adults, with a specific focus on sexual issues in therapy.

Duration: 1 year full-time (Top-Up)  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: January 2027  |  Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Explore person-centred theory in depth and develop your research skills across the course of one year. As well as exploring person-centred theory and counselling with adults or children and young people, you'll develop, present and peer review a seminar paper. Year 1: Person-Centred Theory, Introduction to Research Methods and Design in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Undergraduate Major Project; options include Diversity in Adult Counselling (Optional Route A), Digital Media in Therapy (Optional Route A), Counselling Practice - Children and Young People (Optional Route B).

Career pathways

This course will help build your clinical experience and interests, and potentially develop areas of clinical specialism. With the Adult pathway you’ll gain knowledge of digital media in therapy, and develop your understanding of issues such as sex, sexuality and addiction.

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