counselling diploma – stage III
integration and therapeutic skills
This final year of the counselling training focuses on conceptual integration and therapeutic skills. The aim of this stage is to deepen both the theoretical ground of the integrative framework and its practical application.
learning outcomes
- revision 'diagnosis' as seeing through to the underlying story of soul
- develop a context that is meaningful to the client's unfolding direction
- recognise and work with transference and counter transference
- recognise the value of their own fantasies in distinguishing existential, neurotic and borderline symptoms
- give meaning to mid life issues including depressive symptoms
- receive respectfully, and re-work creatively, clients' dreams and images
- develop an 'internal supervisor' which can supportively monitor the clinical effectiveness of interventions in relation to the depth of therapeutic alliance
- demonstrate reflexivity through the integration of theory and practice in the experience of 'meeting' the client
- learn from and creatively respond to their mistakes
- distinguish between and provide for the differing needs for short or long term work
course format
- 9 training weekends
- 12 supervision groups
- 9 supervisions with their individual training supervisor
- 28 interpersonal, video, study, or tutorial groups
- residential summer intensive.
written work
- 2 theoretical assignments
- 15 case presentations for supervision
- Training Journal
- critical commentary on a video presentation
- 2 case studies.
clinical requirements
100 hours of supervised client practice. Total requirement is 120 hours of practice over Stages II and III.