Postgraduate
Counselling
The Master of Counselling – Health Sciences is nationally accredited by the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA). The Graduate Diploma in Counselling constitutes the first year of this two year professional counselling master program.
Counsellors and psychotherapists provide a vital role in the community. Our professional courses will enhance your existing experiential knowledge base and provide you with training in professional counselling. Through your study, you will develop knowledge and skills in interpersonal communication, group leadership, an understanding of health, human behaviour and development, and sociocultural contexts. You’ll develop professional competence and gain advanced counselling practice through experiential skills development and supervised practicum experience.
You will broaden your analytical thinking and critical evaluation, synthesise and integrate information, assess theoretical concepts and principles of counselling, and propose appropriate models for working with clients, including individuals, couples, families, groups. These programs build upon your reflective practice to provide the potential for greater self-awareness and give you the theoretical and applied knowledge and skills of counselling which will enable you to work with a broad range of clientele.
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Why Counselling?
- Our counselling graduates are highly regarded and career opportunities are many and varied. Graduates have gone on to excel in academia, leadership and management, private practice, senior clinical roles and many others. Our international students have utilised their training to implement programs in their communities to enhance the lives of their countrymen and women.
- Our teaching staff are highly experienced clinicians who maintain their clinical skills as counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists within the community. Their inter-professional collaboration provides students with a broad range of knowledge and experience within the profession.
- Our staff place importance on excellence in teaching and learning, and have received awards in Excellence in Innovation and Teaching.
- Many of our staff are actively engaged in their respective professional organisations.
- Our graduates are eligible for membership of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Association of Western Australia (PACAWA), the peak body representing counsellors and psychotherapists in Western Australia.
Disclaimer
Curtin endeavours to keep its courses information up-to-date. However, this information is subject to change from time to time and the University reserves the right to change course information without notification if and when required.
In exceptional circumstances units and/or courses may be discontinued. In these instances Curtin will use its best endeavours to accommodate students affected by any discontinued courses or units
