**Location**: This is an award of Teesside University delivered in partnership with Stockton Riverside College. **Course overview**: Our FdA Counselling course provides professional training and equips you with a sound theoretical framework and the practitioner skills required to work safely and effectively as a counsellor. The programme adopts a personal-centred approach with aspects of psychodynamic and cognitive behaviour therapy explored as comparative approaches. You are required to undertake a minimum of 100 hours of supervised clinical practice with a recognised counselling agency, and undertake a minimum of 20 hours (10 hours in each year) of personal therapy. You are expected to attend two mandatory weekend workshops each year, for which there is a fee.

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26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: C894

Institution code: T20

Campus Name: Stockton Riverside College

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

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Level 3 (QCF) achievement or equivalent in Counselling. Prospective students who have had a minimum of two years’ counselling experience within a counselling agency, supported by agency/work-based or subject-specific training and mentoring will be considered as suitable candidates for the Foundation Degree in Counselling following a successful interview. It is a requirement of the course that you complete 100 practice hours in a supervised placement setting by the end of the second year of the Foundation Degree. You are also required to undertake 20 hours of personal therapy during the course (i.e. 10 hours for each year of the course), which will cost approximately £30 per session. Due to the nature of the programme you will need to provide written references from two sources to demonstrate your appropriateness to undertake professional counselling training and your ability to cope with the academic requirements. You will be asked to declare any criminal convictions and be aware that DBS enhanced checks for regulated activity (formerly CRB checks) will be carried out prior to you undertaking clinical practice. Suitable candidates will be selected and invited for interview. The interview process will evaluate your suitability for the programme.

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Student satisfaction : 80%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 70%

Go onto work and study: 86%

England	6150.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	6150.0	Year 1
Scotland	6150.0	Year 1
Wales	6150.0	Year 1

Find out more about fees and funding if you are from the UK here: tees.ac.uk/fees. If you live in the Channel Islands or Isle of Man contact your education authority: gov.uk/student-finance. Fees for EU applicants will be confirmed soon.

Teesside University
Middlesbrough
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Tees Valley
TS1 3BX