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Institution code:
S82
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Location:
Ipswich
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Duration:
Two years part-time |
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Typical Offer:
An undergraduate degree and clinical experience of at least two years. Applicants are expected to have achieved an Introductory course in Counselling.
Students should be 21 or over.
Please see Entry Requirements below. |
Introduction
The MSc programme in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Counselling is an advanced professional and clinical training for students who wish to practice as psychotherapists offering cognitive behaviour therapy and psychodynamic therapy.
Having this dual track approach to understanding mental health widens opportunities to work in a wide range of mental health settings, both statutory, voluntary and private. The course enables the capacity to work from different theoretical approaches to understanding both research and its application to clinical theory and practice.
A dissertation will allow you to explore your integrative approach to therapy and evidence-based practice. The course will enable you to work towards applications for BACP registration and accreditation, and British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) accreditation.
There is a substantial evidence base for offering cognitive therapies for a range of psychological diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. This MSc also offers you the opportunity to practice approaches to time limited psychodynamic therapy with an evidence base for depression.
Course modules
Trainee counsellors will usually complete the course part time, in two years, attending university on Thursday afternoons and evenings for twenty weeks and ten Friday and Saturday blocks across each year. Trainee counsellors are also required to complete 50 clinical placement hours in year one, and 100 in year two, enabling application towards registration or accreditation with professional bodies such as the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and/or the British Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (BABCP).
Full downloadable information regarding all University of Suffolk courses, including Key Facts, Course Aims, Course Structure and Assessment, is available in the Definitive Course Record.
Fees and finance
2023-24
- UK part-time tuition fee: £972 per 20 credits (please contact the Student Life Centre for further information).
Further Information
- 25% discount with our Alumni Postgraduate Loyalty Scheme
- UK Fees, Finance and Support
- International Fees and Scholarships
At the University of Suffolk, your tuition fees provide access to all the usual teaching and learning facilities that you would expect. However, there may be additional costs associated with your course that you will need to budget for.
Entry requirements
- Applicants are expected to have achieved an appropriate introductory course in counselling
- Applicants will either have to evidence that they have previously completed a core profession training in a field relevant to mental health or will need to complete a KSA portfolio. The course team can provide further information
- Proof of a recent DBS check
- Entry is by interview and appropriate references.
- Students will be 21 or over at the start of the course, although in exceptional circumstances applicants will be accepted below this age if they can demonstrate an appropriate level of maturity
- Students will require a placement in a counselling setting that enables them to complete 100 hours of clinical practice which will commence from the second semester of year one.
