Overview

• Personalise your master’s degree and select courses from different specialisations to suit your counselling goals. This specialisation is perfect for those who want to gain knowledge in a range of counselling specialisations.
• This is a qualifying specialisation – students from a non-counselling background can study this postgraduate counselling degree. Graduates of this specialisation meet the educational requirements for entry into the counselling profession.
• Study counselling frameworks, professional practice and ethics, and counselling assessment and interventions.
• This specialisation provides you with the maximum choice to customise your training. In addition to the foundation of practice core courses, you can choose from a wide range of approved subjects from across the specialisation.
• This degree provides you with the opportunity to undertake a substantial research project or choose to do a smaller capstone project to further your research skills.
• To enhance your practice, you’ll attend mandatory residential schools at UniSQ Ipswich campus to meet the required number of hours of face-to-face instruction.

Professional accreditation

This specialisation within the Master of Counselling is accredited by the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) and the Australian Counselling Association (ACA).

Career outcomes

• Career opportunities exist in a range of counselling and human services roles within government, non-government, and private organisations, or alternatively, graduates may become self-employed in private practice. Additionally, graduates may have opportunities to progress into doctoral studies.