Advanced certificate in Online Counselling (Module 2)
Validated by CPCAB (Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awards Body)

Developing a Personal Model for Online Counselling

The Advanced Certificate builds on the basic internet skills and understanding gained in the previous module. It is anticipated that students will require 8-10 hours a week for this course which includes weekly online group meetings.

Course Members will work together in one group to consider aspects of working online. They develop a personal model on which to base their counselling using these group discussions, an online roleplay and online supervision. The Course is lead by a tutor and an online supervisor. Course Members will be encouraged to explore both individual, group and peer supervision during the Course.

Course members will be encouraged, through group discussion, to discover the online counselling equivalents for the sensory feedback used in face to face work. They will consider how core conditions such as empathy, warmth and genuineness are communicated online and the significance and usefulness of online transference. They will be encouraged to explore and evaluate the use of poetry, image, sound and narrative as tools for online counsellors.

The assessment assignment invites students to present their personal model for counselling online which assimilates what they have learned on the Course. Examples from their roleplay and supervision will demonstrate how their personal online theoretical model is applied. Students who complete the advanced certificate successfully may choose to carry on studying for the Diploma - Module 3.

You can download an Advanced Brief Course Guide by clicking here. When you have finished you can save the file to your computer, close the window and return to this screen. It is a pdf file, so you may need to download Acrobat Reader first.