Counselling courses change lives. 
The astonishing news about today's problems...
Divorce, depression and sexual problems
are all increasing.
Sadly, that's good news for you as a would-be counsellor.
It means the demand for counsellors can only grow.
Life is more complex than it used to be. Which means there's
an increasing demand for counsellors. Let's take just four
examples:
1. Many people no longer have a network
of family members or a community. So they have no
one whom they can turn to for help. A counsellor can provide
the advice and support that others can't bring.
2. Women are no longer willing
to tolerate abuse or bad behaviour from their partners. They
often require their partners to seek advice. 66% of mid-life
divorces are initiated by women. Counsellors can help bring
partners together.
3. Old people are separated
from the family, and have no one to turn to. After a busy
life, they can become lonely and troubled. Counsellors can
provide real solutions.
4. Because their parents work, children often
lack the detailed care and support given by parents. Some
turn to drugs. Other children have problems at school, and
stop going. Again a counsellor can help.
And that means more people are seeking
the support of a counsellor. So there's a bigger opportunity
for you to become a professional counsellor.
You can be the person who, day by day,
helps the world become a slightly better place. We created the course to help people like you
become a counsellor. Other counselling courses were either
too academic, too brief, or lacking in interactivity to do
the job. Which is why we had to prepare our own.
And for the past eight years we've
been improving it, revealing to students the methods used
by counsellors, and showing them how they can apply these
techniques in their own lives.
Why do the counselling course? Because it's convenient,
value for money, and highly interactive!
You don't have to attend classes, or be anywhere at a fixed
time. You study at times to suit yourself. A lot of people
study our counselling course between 10pm and 1am –
that's the result of a busy life and their commitment to their
career.
These days, people like you lead lives that are simply
too hectic and unpredictable to be tied down to attending
class on a particular day, or to log into a website
at a particular hour.
That's why distance learning is so convenient. You choose
when you want to study. It might be after all the kids have
gone to bed. And you decide where to learn – perhaps
on the train to work, or under the shade of a tree in your
garden.
Study online
When you study with us you'll access all the course materials
online.
Once, you've enrolled we'll provide you with login details
and the name of your tutor. And as soon as you have these
details you can log straight into the system and get started
on the course.
It's great value for money
The Diploma in Counselling course offers great value for
money. We don't have to pay for classrooms all year round,
and our lecturers work from home, so this it means we keep
the cost down. As a result, you get a course that is of high
quality but modest in cost. You save money, without sacrificing
any excellence in learning.
Why be a counsellor?
Here are some of the ways counsellors help:
Life as a counsellor is very satisfying. You get to resolve
people's problems, and you get paid for it. Here are
some of the situations that counsellors get involved
in.
- Save marriages by helping both sides
to understand the other
- Help parents of adolescents to understand
their child better, perhaps dissuading the child from leaving
home or taking to drugs or the street.
- Give lonely older people the gift of
friendship
- Help suicidal people feel that there
is a purpose in life
- Let people who were abused as a child
explore their feelings towards their abuser, and perhaps
attain peace of mind or closure.
- Give angry people tools that let them
control their anger, thus making life better for those around
them
- Allow the bereaved a forum in which
they can express their hurt, safely explore their feelings,
and ultimately come to terms with their pain.
- Help people who regularly get into bad
relationships to understand their patterns of behaviour,
and give them new ways of handling other people.
- Give people techniques to understand
destructive patterns of behaviour (like alcohol or drug
abuse) and stop it.
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| Accreditation
We're accredited by the Open and Distance Learning
Quality Council (ODLQC).
Set up by the government in 1968, the ODLQC is one
of the prime accreditation bodies for distance learning
courses.
To achieve accreditation, we undergo a rigorous and
continuous assessment, by independent experts, of all
aspects of our work, including administration, learner
support, educational materials, and publicity. And because
we're regularly inspected, we have to we have to work
hard to maintain quality to keep that accreditation.
We're also accredited by the Better Business Bureau,
and by Public Eye.
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Register today. Delaying only increases the length of time
you have to wait - time you could be putting towards your
new career as a counsellor.
Kit Sadgrove
Course Director |
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