Professional Practice in Counselling (Top-Up) BA (Hons) at Birmingham Newman University

Entry requirements

Level 5 counselling and psychotherapy qualification (or equivalent). Be a registered member of one of the SCoPEd partner organisations. Demonstrates suitable reflective capacity, self-awareness and a well-developed sense of their reasons for wanting to gain a post-training qualification. It may be possible in some cases for students to enter the programme without a Level 5 qualification where the application demonstrates that students have acquired comparable skills and learning either through an equivalent training/academic programme and completed significant clinical counselling hours. The applicant must be able to demonstrate that they have met column A competencies. There are a large number of counsellors who qualified through the FE route and are highly experienced but do not have a Level 5 counselling/psychotherapy qualification. See Birmingham Newman’s Transfers, Top Ups and Recognition of Prior Certificated Learning (RPcL) and Prior Experiential Learning (RPeL) Policy which can be applied to any applicants who consider they have qualifications or experience that may warrant them being granted exemption from elements of a particular course. Successful admission onto the programme is dependent upon demonstrating your suitability to undertake further clinical training at interview. Non-Academic Requirements: Enhanced DBS. Candidates must receive a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring System check prior to commencing the course. International applicants: Secure English Language Test equivalent to IELTS 6.0 with no component below 5.5.