We are CPCAB Accredited Training Centre and offer the following courses:
New Level 2 (New, Delivered by Peter Ralph)
Effective Listening Skills (6 weeks, Wednesday afternoons, starting soon)
This new Level 2 qualification will benefit students from 14 years to mature adults who are interested in understanding other people and improving their personal and working relationships.
Time: 4 - 6.30 pm
Fee: £139 (Inclusive of CPCAB registration and Certificate)
Level 2 (Delivered by Ian Mandleberg)
Introduction to Counselling skills (12 weeks, Wednesdays from February 2012)
Certificate in Counselling Skills (Intensive course, 17 weeks, Wednesdays from February 2012)
Level 3
Certificate in Counselling Studies (Intensive course; 2012 schedule to be confirmed)
Level 4
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (2 years from September 2012)
SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS
Applications are now being taken for all Level 2 courses.
Please download and return the Registration Form (Click Here
) to
info@twickenhamtherapycentre.co.uk
About the Tutor
Ian Mandleberg graduated from Leicester University with an Honours BSc in psychology more years ago than he cares to admit, and initially entered upon a career as a research psychologist. At the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (part of New York University Medical Centre) he worked for three years with stroke patients, and while in New York he was also awarded an MA in psychology from the New School for Social Research. Returning to the UK, he continued his neuropsychological research at the Institute of Neurological Sciences at Glasgow University, this time working with people who had suffered severe head injuries. Changing direction to qualify as a clinical psychologist, he worked successively as a Probationer in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Southern General Hospital (Glasgow), as a Basic Grade Clinical Psychologist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Glasgow), and as a Senior Clinical Psychologist in the psychiatric unit of the Whittington Hospital (London). He subsequently left the NHS to establish a private practice, but since 1996 he has devoted most of his energy to training counsellors. He has taught at all levels – from Introductory to Diploma level – at various Adult Education institutions, e.g. Hounslow, Hammersmith & Fulham, Uxbridge, and West Thames Colleges. At present, besides working with TCTC, he also teaches counselling at Morley College in London.
Award in Introduction to Counselling Skills
This 30-hour open entry Level 2 course is for you if you’re ever called on to provide emotional support for colleagues, family or friends and you’d like to do it a bit more effectively, and/or if you’re wondering whether you’d be suited to a career in counselling. Running for 2½ hours a week over 12 weeks, it certainly won’t make you a counsellor, but it will give you a taste of the kind of training that’s involved, and it will teach you some useful helping skills based on the person-centred model identified with the American psychologist Carl Rogers. By the end of the course you should know if further training would suit you. You’ll keep a weekly reflective Learning Journal and you’ll be expected to satisfy your tutor that you have met the standard required by the certificating body CPCAB (Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body). Those successfully completing the course will receive a nationally recognised Award in Introduction to Counselling Skills.
Start date: Wednesday February 22nd 2012,
Time: 6.30 – 9.00 pm
Fee: £325 (inclusive of CPCAB registration/examination fee).
Certificate in Counselling Skills
This 102-hour intensive open entry Level 2 course is for you if a practical training in counselling skills would enhance your ordinary work role as e.g. a teacher, nurse, youth worker, probation officer, minister of religion etc. With 2 x 3-hour sessions/week over 17 weeks, this programme won’t itself make you a qualified counsellor, it represents the first substantial step on the training progression ladder. Initially you’ll learn about the person-centred approach of the American psychologist Carl Rogers, while later you’ll encounter the “Skilled Helper” model of Gerard Egan, whose approach is somewhat more problem-centred than that of Carl Rogers. Finally, you will briefly encounter some other counselling orientations - psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive and humanistic. You’ll probably need to set aside 3-6 additional hours/per week in order to keep a weekly reflective Learning Journal and do some outside reading from the Reading List provided. Those who present a portfolio of their course work and reflections on it, and pass an external examination set by the Awarding Body, will receive a nationally recognised Certificate in Counselling Skills issued by CPCAB.
Note: No new students will be accepted after Week 2.
Start date: Wednesday February 22, 2012,
Time: 10.00 am – 1.00 pm; 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Fee: £705 (inclusive of CPCAB registration/ examination fee).
Certificate in Counselling Studies
This intensive 102-hour Level 3 course is for you if you are seriously intending to pursue a career in counselling. With 2 x 3-hour sessions/week over 17 weeks, the programme represents the second substantial step on the training progression ladder. It has three aims: (1) to develop your existing counselling skills to a new level; (2) to encourage you to think like a counsellor by introducing you to a range of counselling theories in greater depth and inviting you to apply them to yourself and to other people; and (3) to prepare you for the voluntary work in an agency required at Diploma level by covering such topics as (i) legal, ethical and procedural aspects of agency work, (ii) ways of assessing clients’ needs and their therapeutic progress, (iii) criteria for short-, medium- and long-term counselling, and (iv) supervision. You’ll make and transcribe a 15-minute audio tape of a counselling session of your own. You’ll probably need to set aside 3-6 additional hours/per week in order to keep a reflective Learning Journal and do some outside reading from the Reading List provided. Those who present a portfolio of their course work and their reflections on it, and pass an external examination set by the Awarding Body, will receive a nationally recognised Certificate in Counselling Studies issued by CPCAB.
Notes: (1) Entry is by interview. If you are new to TCTC you must present (i) evidence that you have completed a substantial programme (90+ hours) in counselling skills and (ii) a letter of recommendation from your previous tutor. (iii) You should also bring your Level 2 portfolio for inspection. (2) No new students will be accepted after Week 2.
Start date: 2013
Time: 10.00 am – 1.00 pm; 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Fee: £705 (inclusive of CPCAB registration/examination fee).
Level 4
The Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling will run from September 2012 on Wednesdays, starting at 9.45am -4.30pm on Wednesday 12th September 2012. It will be based on the Integrative model aand acceptance is by interview only (you must have a L3 in Counselling Skills and Theory or equivalent to do this training).
The Fee is £3200 for two years ( year one £1600).
Payment £100 deposit after interview, two instalments, one at the beginning and one in February 2013 some flexibility may be allowed with the instalment plan in some circumstances).
Please send your initial application
to
maura@twickenhamtherapycentre.co.uk