Psychotherapy and Counselling

The Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling can be really a cross-disciplinary pathway into a career in helping people in distress. In counseling and psychotherapy, clients gain self-understanding, expand social skills and be much more able to modify through a dedicated helping relationship. This course focuses on the practice of creating of a therapeutic environment for clients and on fostering the elevated degrees of skill, sensitivity, self-knowledge and ethical behaviour demanded of the counseling and analysis professional. Theories and approaches are taught and critically examined in the light in their participation to a contemporary relational knowledge and practice of psychotherapy and counselling. An investigation component introduces students to the systematic study of this counseling experience from various methodological perspectives. This training course is open to students in any area who is able to demonstrate the personal and reflective qualities demanded for this demanding profession.

• Under graduate level or higher in any discipline
• And submission of a Statement of Intent and CV detailing voluntary and paid work, relevant life experiences, training and education, and interests, to the gratification of the college of Social Sciences and Psychology
• And achieving an interview score of 70% or above at a group applicant interview, or achievement of a GPA of 5.5 (high-credit ) or preceding at the University's Graduate Diploma in Counselling. Applications from Australian citizens and holders of permanent resident visas must be made via the UAC.