The Graduate Certificate of Counselling is designed to introduce students to the essential knowledge and skills that will prepare them for a helping career or expand on their current understanding and practice to improve their skills for their current work situations. This course will equip students to: 

• Provide face to face and online counselling 
• Gain practical knowledge of how to apply person-centred approaches to counselling situations 
• Work in a culturally responsive and respectful framework with clients and communities - develop reflective practices that lead to self-awareness 
• Understand the major counselling theories and their change mechanisms 
• React professionally and ethically to challenges in helping professions 
• Identify the professional roles and responsibilities of a counsellor and pathways to further qualifications.