Counselling: The Complete Course

Name: Counselling: The Complete Course
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Learn How to Improve Your Life With Counselling; An In Depth Counselling Course for Personal Development

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Created byNeven Coaching Academy

Last updated 6/2025

English

What you'll learn

You will learn how to understand human behavior, modify toxic patterns and how to help people to realise their potential for personal growth
You will learn how to establish professional relationship and trust with your clients
You will learn how to improve your communication skills and your ability to influence people

Course content

4 sections • 58 lectures • 3h 11m total length

Introduction0:47
Acquire practical cognitive behavioral therapy skills to understand and manage emotions, modify toxic behavior, set goals, and build trust with clients through this comprehensive counseling course.

Basic Counselling Skills4:08
Develop eight core counseling skills, including attending, silence, reflecting and paraphrasing, clarifying and questioning, focusing, building rapport, summarizing, and immediacy, to help clients feel understood and supported.
Counselling Skills in Practice2:40
Counselling Principles1:48
Characteristics of Counselors3:30
Three Modes of Listening2:11
Attending2:09
Discover how attending signals undivided attention in counseling through eye contact, minimized distractions, nodding, and forward-leaning, mirrored posture, reflecting nonverbal communication's importance.
Reflection1:59
Misconceptions about Counselling4:02
Debunk common counselling myths, such as needing help vs. being broken, and that mental illness is medical; confidential care helps restore normal functioning, and not everyone needs long-term treatment.
Locus of Control2:36
Explore how locus of control shapes outcomes by distinguishing internal and external control, and how believing you can influence events motivates action and resilience.
Internal Locus of Control3:31
Explore internal locus of control and its link to responsibility, self-belief, confidence, and proactive success.
External Locus of Control2:10
Internal vs External Locus of Control3:33
What is Anxiety?2:58
Causes of Anxiety1:05
Five Steps to Get Out of The Anxiety Loop6:23
Present Moment Exercise2:10
Self Soothing2:55
Self Soothing / Smell1:35
Self Soothing / Vision1:53
Self Soothing / Hearing1:37
Self Soothing / Taste2:00
Explore how taste influences feelings and memories, and learn self-soothing using favored foods, slow drinks, and other senses, while recognizing when eating too much or bingeing requires professional help.
Self Soothing / Touch1:55
Self Monitoring2:09
Self Monitoring Assignments1:25
Overcoming the Barriers to Healthy Emotions2:32
Communication Skills6:46
Questioning Skills4:23
Exposure Therapy2:21
Connection of Emotions and Behavior3:54
The course explains how emotions and behaviors interlink, showing how overwhelming feelings drive self-destructive actions and how rewards reinforce patterns, underscoring the importance of understanding emotions to prevent long-term damage.

What are Intrusive Thoughts2:15
Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts4:49
Thought Patterns3:18
Identifying Negative Automatic Thoughts3:13
Restructuring Negative Automatic Thoughts4:47
Cognitive Distortions1:39
Identify cognitive distortions to apply cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to automatic thoughts and irrational beliefs. Learn how distorted thinking fuels negative feelings and undermines decision making.
The Lens of Fear6:41
Socratic Questioning2:58
Why People Have Limiting Beliefs?4:32
Steps to Overcoming Limiting Beliefs5:52
The Six Core Processes of Psychological Flexibility5:24
Motivational Interviewing10:28
Radical Acceptance5:50
Adopt radical acceptance to acknowledge the present pain without judgment, stop blaming others, and focus on what you can do now to cope.
Radical Acceptance 10 Steps4:05
Practicing Radical Acceptance7:33
Radical Acceptance Coping Statements5:35
Patterns of Problematic Thinking2:54
Change Your Negative Beliefs4:35
Coping Thoughts1:20
Thought Defusion2:06

Requirements

No prior knowledge of Counselling is required

Description

Counselling presents a very needed area of therapy, especially in these challenging time and the majority of people will at some point in their lives feel uncertain or probably even overwhelmed by their problems, both physically and emotionally. As a result of this, they might struggle to find clear direction and need someone outside of their family and friend circle to talk to.

For every counsellor it is very important to fully develop active listening skills because this forms is the foundation for successful and proactive therapy sessions. This course provides you with a grounding in the theoretical aspects of counselling and has easy to learn lectures and exercises which you can work on at your own pace and the way it suits you the best. This course is very helpful for individuals that are already active within the field of Counselling and want to update and improve their skills. In this course you will learn how to become attuned to the verbal and non-verbal responses of your clients, noticing even the sligtest shifts in body language and the mood changes. You will also learn how to subtly explore all these changes, and fully recognize when to use your improved counselling skills and interventions.

Who this course is for:

People interested in gaining an insight into understanding human behaviour and why people think and act the way they do.
People interested in Personal Development
Individuals interested in communicating effectively with other people

Counselling: The Complete Course

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Introduction1 lecture • 1min

Counselling Overview29 lectures • 1hr 22min

Counselling Process8 lectures • 19min

Thoughts and Beliefs20 lectures • 1hr 30min

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