Counselling Skills Certificate Course (Beginner to Advanced)
What you'll learn
- The listening and people skills that serve personal and work relationships.
- The self-awareness and the capability to build collaborative relationships.
- The counselling theory that confirms the effectiveness of counselling skills.
- An ethical communications structure needed in all supportive relationships.
- How to utilize counselling skills in individual or professional relationships.
- How to design a series of counselling sessions in a helping relationship.
- Advanced people skills you can action in your relationships right away.
- Various approaches to counselling; inc. Behavioural and person-centred.
- Understand the motivations that underpin unhelpful, habitual behaviours.
- Identify from where memories, fears, disappointment, and beliefs come.
- How the unconscious mind processes our everyday experiences.
- PLUS: Get exclusive access to the private discussion group!
Requirements
- No previous experience of counselling is required to join in this course.
- Students are encouraged to take notes (for self-reflection purposes only).
- This training can be studied anywhere with a stable internet connection.
- An MP3 version is also accessible for those who like to learn 'on the go'.
- Access your training course from a tablet, smartphone, or desktop.
- Additional PDF materials are included to further your learning.
Description
Do you have a natural passion for helping people to grow, mature and take practical measures to improve their overall quality of life? If so, then this Counselling Skills Certificate Course will equip you with the skills, theoretical knowledge, and personal improvement required to practice counselling skills in a wide range of settings.
This Counselling Skills Certificate Course signifies the first step for those considering a career in counselling and provides a necessary foundation in the principles of psychology. Students will learn the time-proven theory that underpins different counselling approaches, including existential, cognitive-behavioural and person-centred perspectives.
This comprehensive counselling skills certificate course will provide you with a complete toolkit of the psychological principles and communication skills needed to start practising counselling in any supportive relationship.
During this training, you will learn to become attuned to the verbal and non-verbal responses of others, noticing shifts in body language and even mood changes. You will learn how to subtly explore these changes, and recognize when to use your newfound counselling skills and interventions.
Counselling is a time-proven form of talking therapy that allows people to become more self-aware of their responses to everyday life, alongside what motivates these responses, enabling a counsellor to separate their needs from those of the person they are counselling.
Pivoting around the relationship between counsellor and client, this Achology certified Counselling Skills training is suitable for all those who are ready to grow effective listening and people skills that will serve their individual, social and professional relationships.
During this course, you will develop specialized skills and knowledge, including:
Listening and people skills that serve personal and work relationships.
Self-awareness and the capability to build collaborative relationships.
Counselling theory that confirms the effectiveness of counselling skills.
A moral communications structure needed in all supportive relationships.
How to utilize counselling skills in individual or professional relationships.
How to design a series of counselling sessions in a helping relationship.
Insights into the key factors that motivate human emotions & behaviour.
And much, much more.
This Counselling Skills Certificate Course includes 43+ hours of on-demand video and is respectively designed for you, whether or not you have prior knowledge of counselling. It will provide you with the skills, theoretical knowledge, and personal growth required to exercise counselling skills with people in a broad range of environments.
You will benefit from a comprehensive, enjoyable and conducive learning experience. There is no deadline for you completing the course, and you can tailor the training around your current obligations and also at your own preferred pace.
You will gain all the core counselling skills you need to apply them right away. Whether you mean to create a real difference within yourself, your family or the social/professional community in which you serve, studying Counselling with Achology grants you a complete training solution.
Enrolling in this course also gives you access to an exclusive community group, in which you can ask topical questions, discuss what you're learning with others and benefit from the wealth of wisdom of over 65,000 like-minded people from all around the world.
The Achology Counselling Skills certificate course is also suitable for those whose professional performance would benefit from improved people and listening skills. Past course participants have come from education, healthcare, nursing, social work, law enforcement, social care, management teams, and also human resources.
You will get lifetime access to over 43+hrs of on-demand video-based teaching, a full MP3 version of the course and also an extensive range of downloadable additional course PDF resources.
There is no deadline for completing the course, and you can study it anytime, anywhere or from any device. You're protected by a full money-back guarantee - which means you can enrol on the course today, absolutely risk-free.
Who this course is for:
- This Counselling Skills Certificate Course is open to all. It can be studied individually, or alongside another training course from the Achology (Academy of Modern Applied Psychology) curriculum.
- A typical draw to counselling is the beneficial nature of the field of study. Understanding human behaviour can prepare learners to improve the quality of their relationships in all spheres of life.
- Counselling psychology serves as a strong foundation for continuous professional improvement. This training course is suitable for anyone interested in personal development or growth.
- If you want counselling skills training of the highest standard, you have found it. The Academy of Modern Applied Psychology has a reliable reputation for being at the forefront of affordable online education.
- Many occupations are compatible with counselling psychology such as nursing, coaching, social work, management, leadership, teaching, alternative therapy and human resources.
- Anyone who has an interest in learning counselling skills, and who has an opportunity to practice the people skills learned on the course, will benefit from enrolling in this Counselling Skills Certificate Course.
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Course content
- Preview08:58
- 03:08Course Instructions & Udemy Navigation Support
- Preview11:32
- 19:56Where the Ideas in Counselling Come From?
- 03:16What is Counselling? (Article)
- Preview16:19
- 16:15The Levels of Relatability (Part 2)
- 03:10A Short History of Counselling (Article)
- 10:42Discriminations: Self-Awareness Exercise
- 10 questionsThe 'Are You Prejudiced? Quiz
- 17:21The Iceberg Concept of Culture (Part 1)
- 16:24The Iceberg Concept of Culture (Part 2)
- 02:54Exercise: Issues of Diversity & Self-Awareness Questions (after Quiz 1)
- 19:56The Dimensions of Personal Prejudice
- 17:50Introducing Frame of Reference
- 03:57The Internal and External Frame of Reference (Article)
- Preview14:28
- 13:40The Values of Counselling Psychology (Part 2)
- 15:36The Values of Counselling Psychology (Part 3)
- 03:00An Ethical Framework for Counselling Practitioners (Article)
- 13:37The Johari Window: Identifying Blind Spots (Part 1)
- 14:22The Johari Window: Identifying Blind Spots (Part 2)
- 03:06The Core Conditions of Therapeutic Counselling (Article)
- 20:06Person Centred: Carl Rogers 3 Core Conditions
Instructors
Kain Ramsay is an internationally bestselling author, a highly sought-after instructor, a social influencer, and a successful entrepreneur of multiple companies.
As an established teacher of personal and professional growth principles, and a champion of mental well-being, Kain Ramsay is respected among the world's foremost thought leaders in the field of modern applied psychology.
With nearly two decades of experience as a communicator, mentor and teacher, and armed with a wealth of knowledge, Kain has partnered with other enthusiastic social innovators and disrupted the old world view of education by pioneering a newer, forward-thinking approach to learning.
His goal is to close the gap between conventional formal psychology education and the practical application of psychological principles.
Through his passionate, entrepreneurial mindset and his gift for building community, Kain's innovative educational philosophy has been adopted by social influencers throughout the world who continue to use Kain's practical strategies and valuable insights to transform their lives and the lives of other people in the communities they serve.
In 2014, Kain was invited to become an instructor at Udemy. Now, with over 500,000 learners following his training materials worldwide, Kain's unique approach to teaching has propelled him to become one of the most sought-after instructors in Udemy's personal development, social science, and mental health categories.
In 2018, Kain co-founded and launched Achology, a revolutionary new approach to online learning. Enthused by driving improved transparency, Kain, and a team of technical experts, founded an intuitive E-Learning system to cultivate learning and expert competency among a global community of certified mentors, innovators, influencers, coaches, and thought-leaders.
The Academy of modern applied psychology serves as a revolutionary e-learning platform that furthers personal growth and professional development in a collaborative learning environment without the obligation for members to travel or pay extravagant study fees. Within the Achology framework, The Academy of Modern Applied Psychology is the first learning academy of its kind. This Academy is backed by some of the most influential figures in the field of applied psychology, including Gerard Egan, Ph.D., author of The Skilled Helper.
By bringing these transformational psychological principles within reach of anyone wanting to learn them, Kain has changed today's educational landscape and levelled the playing field, enabling individuals and impact-makers access to the working strategies and insights required to enhance their intrinsic value and create a more far-reaching impact in today's modern world.
Drawing from real-life experience, Kain's approach to teaching carries a personal philosophy which has inspired over half a million people across the globe to invest in their unlimited opportunity for personal growth and start positively impacting the world around them.
Achology is the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology and is dedicated to the principle that all people with a desire to transform the lives of others should have opportunity to fulfil their highest potential. And this is best achieved through establishing a community of the like-minded.
The study of psychology can be traced back to the ancient Greeks in the west, the early buddhists in the east and has been essential to the development of many contemporary disciplines, including counselling, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness, life coaching, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology.
Achology has created an exciting new path and is radically changing the way psychologically-based training is delivered. Our primary goal is to offer the community, environment and tools, by which you can develop the essential competencies, real-world education and a depth of understanding that will lead you to success in your future chosen career.
For many years, an industry (that should be) motivated by individual growth, healing lives and personal transformation, has locked out vast numbers of people hungry to learn, due to prohibitively high training fees. These days are gone. Achology has finally torn down these cost barriers.
The Academy of Modern Applied Psychology hosts a vibrant community of multi-disciplinary practitioners (in training and practice), that offers unrivalled, affordable learning opportunity. Through an industry changing partnership with Udemy, finally, everyone can have access to life-transforming trainings.
With its unique peer-based practice opportunities, Achology also offers a pragmatic, experience-based system of accreditation for those wanting to pursue a future career or self-employment, as well as certification for each of its individual courses.
Join the revolution, make the world a better place, yourself a better person and begin training to become an Achologist today.