We just want to begin by sharing with you what 30 years of experience has taught us are the vital traits to being a successful counsellor. And its actually quite simple.
You need a naturally open mind, a warm hearted personality with strong sense of integrity, a firm basis in ethical standards and the strong desire to really help people improve their lives. This is by far more important than having read every academic journal on counselling in existence; clients don't want to be analysed, they want to change.
A good dose of intuition also helps, provided that its grounded in helping the client discover what's right for them rather than what 'their therapist thinks they should do'.
The ability to listen is vital, and by listen we mean really listen to others - to the person in front of you who is seeking your help. Because your ability to listen to whoever you seek to help, and your compassionate empathy is what will help them change far more than being a parrot that repeats text book knowledge.
And this makes sense, just think back on the last time someone really stopped and listened to you, this person was there for you, their mind wasn't thinking about what they wanted to say. Now imagining this feels pleasant, doesn't it? Because this is the atmosphere you need to create with your client, and it is through this empathy that all change will be possible.
Lesson 1 - Introduction
The course focuses and in an easy readable style on important aspects of the main areas that any counsellor, regardless of way of working, needs to know, in order to deal with the vast and intriguing complexity that is the human being.Lesson 3 - Basic Counselling Skills
In this chapter we cover some of the underlying laws that make for successful counselling, integrity, compassion and the ability to listen and many more.Lesson 5 - The Law of Resonance
If an object vibrates at a certain rate of vibration, everything in its vicinity that has the same vibration as a dormant possibility will start vibrating at that frequency.This scientific law applies to everything, from subatomic particles to cosmic proportion
Lesson 7 - Body Language
Consciously or subconsciously we often lie to ourselves, and to others. A common example is the everyday question How are you?, and the ritual answer: I'm fine. Our bodies do not lie, though, with a little bit of training it is possible to detect when the body and the words are not telling the same story.Lesson 2 - Ethics
In this chapter we cover some basic rules for safe and ethical conduct of therapy – and conversations etc. in everyday relationships for that matter.Lesson 4 - Literature List
List of literature that we highly recommend and or that we have used when compiling this course.Lesson 6 - Power Games
Doing something with a ulterior motive is a common human behaviour. An idealistic and inexperienced counsellor can be deeply entangled in power games where the client "scores points" on the counsellors behalf .Lesson 8 - Working With Projections
A projection is an illusive, subtle and everywhere-present phenomenonprojection happens every time we do not own our integrity fully, every time we are not truly honest to our own being, regardless if we are conscious of it or not.
Projections in other words, happen all the time!
This course is based upon our face to face certificate course which in turn is a subset of our diploma course, both of which are accredited by