Master of Counselling (Trauma Focused Practice)
- Are you interested in furthering your counselling qualifications and carrying out your own research, preparing you for registration as a counsellor? Benefit from foundational courses with practical residential schools and clinical placements to ensure you’re ready for your career in counselling.
- The Trauma Focused Practice specialisation in the Master of Counselling allows you to explore trauma-informed practice as a framework for understanding the impact of trauma, and investigate the various models and approaches to recognising and treating trauma, enabling you to better facilitate safety and wellbeing within your position.
- Engage in case conceptualisation and the application of trauma informed practices for the physical, emotional and cultural safety of clients.
- Learn how to recognise and assess a range of trauma symptoms and triggers utilising case studies.
- Understand more about the continuous discoveries in neuroscience and how this will shape the future of counselling interventions and inform your therapeutic interventions as a counsellor.
- Balance your study with work and life commitments - most of the masters courses are offered online allowing you flexibility to study when it suits you.
- Develop your applied skills further utilising our telehealth system simulations and working with the community and alongside clinical supervisors in UniSQ's Psychology and Counselling clinics in Toowoomba and Ipswich.
- Choose to embark on a substantial Research Project or select a smaller Capstone Project to further your research skills.
