The counselling qualification and training landscape is complicated. Finding the best route through the qualifications, training, clinical hours (this is hours of practical experience) you need, can be tricky to piece together and navigate.
SCoPEd maps the core competences and practice standards for counsellors & psychotherapists as agreed by the key accrediting bodies including BACP.
This will help you evaluate and select the most suitable counselling training program for your aspirations and the type of training that you want to embark upon.
Find out more: SCoPEd Framework
Three Steps to Becoming a Counsellor with GCS
Step 1
The CCS is the perfect affordable, flexible, and experiential foundational training course to dip your toe in the water and see if counselling is for you. On completion of the course you will gain hugely valuable and transferable communication and listening skills and an understanding of human behaviour patterns. You will develop key insight into your own behaviour and relationships and understand the vital role you could play as a psychodynamic counsellor.
Step 2 : Band B
If you decide after the CCS that counselling is for you, the next step is to enter onto our highlyregarded diploma course. This course not only provides you with the theoretical elements needed to become a counsellor, GCS also provides the clinical work based opportunities to accumulate the clinical hours needed without leaving you to find your own clients and supervision. GCS will be with you every step of the way, training advising, supervising and pairing you with clients you are best placed to support.
Step 3 : Band B / Band C
The supervised counselling placement offered in the programme provides an opportunity for diploma-qualified counsellors to achieve the client hours required for individual accreditation by BACP. This course supports counsellors to develop the skills and capacities important in moving towards independent practice.