Certificate In
Psychotherapy

Basic & Advance Level

• What are counselling and psychotherapy?
• What do people come to counselling and psychotherapy for?
• What are the training routes in counselling and psychotherapy?
• Where do counsellors and psychotherapists work?
• The Basics of Therapeutic Practice
• The Counselor as a Therapeutic Person

• The Counselor’s Values and the Therapeutic Process
• Issues Faced by Beginning Therapists
• Resistance variables
• Introducing therapeutic skills and clinical practice: the ‘basics’ of therapeutic practice?
• The client-therapist relationship
• Assessment
• Risk: assessment, exploration and mitigation
• Formulation
• Using outcome and process measures
• Therapeutic beginnings
• Therapeutic middles
• Therapeutic endings
• Introducing professional issues: therapeutic skills ‘beyond therapy’
• Personal and Professional development
• Clinical supervision
• Leadership
• Confidentiality, note taking and record keeping
• Ethical codes and guidance
• Responding to complaints
• Client experiences
• Therapy and the law
• Mental health law
• Fundamentals of research
• Psychoanalytic therapy, techniques and application to a case
• Existential therapy, techniques and application to a case
• Person centered therapy, techniques and application to a case
• Gestalt therapy, techniques and application to a case
• Behavior therapy, techniques and application to a case
• Cognitive Behaviour therapy, techniques and application to a case
• Family systems therapy, techniques and application to a case
• Relaxation exercises and meditation
• Biofeedback
• Confrontation
• Hypnosis
• Play therapy
• Art therapy