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!
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
- 03:13Course Instructions & Udemy Navigation Support
- Preview11:32
- 19:56Where the Ideas in Counselling Come From?
- 03:18What is Counselling? (Article)
- Preview16:19
- 16:15The Levels of Relatability (Part 2)
- 03:12A 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
- 03:59The 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)
- 03:05An Ethical Framework for Counselling Practitioners (Article)
- 13:37The Johari Window: Identifying Blind Spots (Part 1)
- 14:22The Johari Window: Identifying Blind Spots (Part 2)
- 03:08The Core Conditions of Therapeutic Counselling (Article)
- 20:06Person Centred: Carl Rogers 3 Core Conditions
Instructors
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
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Kain Ramsay is a bestselling author (Responsibility Rebellion), an applied Psychologist Dip, an acclaimed keynote speaker, social media figure with a global audience, and an established social entrepreneur.
Over the past decade, Kain has worked in the fields of applied psychology, social entrepreneurship, coaching, mentoring, and training. With his unique style of teaching, Kain inspires individuals, audiences, and organizations around the world to reach their highest potential.
After starting his career in the armed forces, Ramsay gained international experience in business development before becoming well-known as a leading instructor in the field of life coaching. He teaches social entrepreneurs, coaches, and leadership teams how to realize their potential and impact the world for the better, and disrupt the old world view of education by introducing a newer, forward-thinking method for delivering education.
As a result of his passionate, entrepreneurial mindset and his ability to build communities, Kain's innovative educational philosophy has been adopted by social influencers around the world, who continue to use his practical strategies and valuable insights to change both their lives and those of others.
As an instructor, Kain joined Udemy in 2014. Currently, over 650,000 learners around the world follow his training materials, making him one of Udemy's most renowned instructors in the categories of personal development, social sciences, and mental health.
Kain founded and launched Achology, a groundbreaking approach to e-learning, in 2018. With the goal of fostering transparency through e-learning, Kain partnered with a team of technical experts to develop a platform that allows certified mentors, innovators, influencers, coaches, and thought leaders to cultivate knowledge and expertise.
By opening access to these psychological principles in today's educational environment, Kain has changed the educational landscape and leveled the playing field, allowing individuals and decision-makers to gain better understanding of the strategies and insights needed to enhance their intrinsic value and make a greater impact in the modern world.
Kain's teaching methodology incorporates an exhaustive analysis of real-life experiences, resulting in an innovative approach that has inspired hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts and professionals around the world to reach their full potential for personal growth and start making a positive impact.
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- 117,329 Reviews
- 445,779 Students
- 12 Courses
"Psychology cannot advise everyone how to live life. It can, however, provide them with a means for influencing individual and social change." – Albert Bandura (1986)
As the foremost provider of online learning in modern applied psychology, the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology (AMAP) makes psychology-based education accessible, understandable, and relevant.
Founded in 2018, The Academy of Modern Applied Psychology (AMAP) offers a comprehensive range of online training courses and aims to deliver experiential learning in modern applied psychology and related disciplines. Assisting its members and students to develop the necessary competence, expertise, and confidence to apply timeless psychology-based principles to their daily lives.
The Academy of Modern Applied Psychology offers multiple certification programs, including Coaching, NLP, CBT, Mindfulness, Hypnotherapy, Counseling, and Skilled Helping. Students can obtain a certificate in two ways: a completion certificate (for completing a course) and an achievement certificate (for successfully passing a course and gaining relevant skills and competencies). Courses on Udemy provide learners with certifications of completion.
Life opportunities increase for all with a high standard of education. With a global reach, the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology brings life-changing philosophy and psychology to classrooms and education systems around the globe. Currently, there are over 650,000 students enrolled in AMAP programs worldwide.
In applied psychology, the main goal is to discover, understand, and positively influence human behaviour. Modern Applied Psychology contributes to personal development, personality development, social skill development, mature behaviour, and mental wellbeing by integrating functional, psychological principles with philosophical ideals.
The Academy of Modern Applied Psychology does not teach 'technical skills, but instead established principles and theories that have been discussed and written about since before psychology was even recognized as an academic field. AMAP training courses are not designed to cultivate skilled individuals but to develop more mature, socially valuable, and virtue-oriented individuals.
We are devoted to helping people master human behaviour to improve their cities, communities, and nations, which is why we are the world's most extensive online learning environment for people devoted to learning about human behaviour.
At the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology, we call our students Achologists - lifelong learners who are committed to improving their communities by driving their personal growth and professional development.