Counselling

Use this page to find out about all our counselling courses and read about our tutors.

Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Concepts

Validated by ABC Awards
This Humanistic course introduces the basic concepts of the Person Centred approach and counselling skills and enables you to sample the style of an experiential counselling skills course. It is a 10 week part-time course plus one full day workshop. No previous training is required; the course is open to anyone who is interested in counselling and personal development. However, you are expected to have a reasonable grasp of spoken and written language as well as basic computer skills.

The course covers:

• Effective listening
• Attending skills
• Effective responding skills
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Respecting difference and cultural diversity
• It encourages your personal development and self awareness

For all counselling courses please contact the Curriculum Administrator on 020 8909 6293 for further information.

All students embarking on the Foundation Degree in Counselling will be required to do a CRB police check, which will have an additional cost of approximately £44.

Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills

Validated by ABC Awards
This is a six month, one day per week course, which builds on the knowledge and skills developed in the Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Concepts course, and is a pre-requisite for entry on to the Foundation Degree in Counselling.

On the course students will learn to:

• Develop a repertoire of counselling skills at a consistent level
• Underpin these skills with an understanding of the Person Centred therapeutic model
• Increase their self-awareness and their awareness of their impact on others.

Please note that the Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Concepts and the Foundation Degree include a 3 day residential event.

Foundation Degree in Counselling

Validated by Middlesex University
This 2 year part-time course combines academic teaching with practical experience, at the end of which you can expect to qualify as a Counsellor. We will cover areas that will allow you to develop clinical and experiential understanding of the Person Centred approach to counselling, within a humanistic perspective of the therapeutic relationship and process.

For further information use course search, contact us on 020 8909 6400 or download our brochure.

Name	Lynn Leftwich
Courses taught	Level 2 Introduction to Counselling, Year 2 – Foundation Degree in Counselling
Qualifications	Certification in Counselling (Harrow), Diploma in Counselling(Harrow), Advanced Diploma in CBT Methods for Person Centred Counsellors (Warwick), PTLLS, BSc (Hons) in Reflective Therapeutic Practice (Metanoia)
Professional training	MBACP (Accred.)
Professional experience/expertise	My professional work experience includes the NHS, private practice, charitable organisations and Government Rehabilitation Schemes
Personal quotation	After many years working in the corporate world I retrained and moved into my second, and much more personally fulfilling, career as a Person-Centred Counsellor. I feel proud to be part of a dedicated team assisting others to follow the same path.

 

Name	Margie Hayes
Courses taught	Counselling Concepts, Year 2 Foundation Degree Person Centred, Year 1 Foundation Degree Counselling
Qualifications	BA (Hons) Person Centred Counselling (Metanoia Institute), Dip Person Centred Counselling (Metanoia Institute), Dip Person Centred Supervision (Tony Merry and Ireen Fairhurst), BA (Hons) Criminology (Middlesex University)
Professional body	Accredited Senior Member British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Professional experience/expertise	Set up and ran a counselling service in Probation. Worked for many years in a drug and alcohol agency seeing clients for harm minimisation, through to post detoxification. Supervise counsellors working in Youth Counselling agencies, women centres, working specifically with disabled clients and counsellors working with women in refuges having suffered domestic violence.
Personal quotation	The work of a counsellor is rich, rewarding and very varied. When I feel despair at the desperateness of someone’s plight I take comfort in knowing that giving the right therapeutic conditions and a willingness to be alongside someone in their darkest hour – they can heal and they do get better.

 

Name	Barbara Heath
Courses taught	Level 2 Counselling Concepts (now Introduction to Counselling), Level 3 Counselling Skills, Foundation Degree in Counselling Year 3
Qualifications	Diploma in Counselling (Harrow College), MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy (University of East London)
Professional training	Specialist Certificate in Understanding Trauma (Tavistock Centre)
Professional body	BACP Accredited, UKCRP
Professional experience/expertise	Specialist in trauma and addictions
Personal quotation	Training and qualifying as a counselling is the beginning of a life-long rewarding journey both professionally and personally.

 

Name	Jan Morris
Courses taught	Level 2 Counselling Concepts, Foundation Degree in Counselling, year 1 and 3
Qualifications	BA (Hons) English Literature & Art (University of Lancaster)
Professional training	PG Dip Art Thereapy (University of Hertfordshire), Dip Pastoral Counselling (University of Nottingham), Certificate in Supervision (The Norwich Centre), Cert FE Teaching (Harrow College)
Professional body	BACP Accredited, BAAT HPC Registered
Professional experience/expertise	Worked as art therapist in mental health settings such as therapeutic communities. In private practice as a counsellor and art therapist since 1997 especially working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Counselling and art therapy trainer since 1998, tutored at Harrow College since 2002.
Personal quotation	It’s a joy for me to b working creatively and experientially with students as they grow personally and professionally during their training.

 

Name	Jon Wilson Cooper
Courses taught	Foundation Degree in Counselling
Qualifications	Post Graduate diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy
Professional training	Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Supervision
Professional bodies	British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Affiliate member of The Institute for Learning
Professional experience/expertise	I started my professional therapy career in July 1987 working in therapeutic communities with people with severe mental health difficulties as well as drug and alcohol problems. Since that time I have worked all over England then America and also in India. I commenced formal training as a Gestalt Psychotherapist in the summer of 1991, graduating in July 1995, I then set up in private practice which included one to one therapy, supervising individuals working one to one and in groups. Alongside my private practice, I have worked at management and then consultant level from 1992 till 2001 developing, supervising and training staff teams.
Personal quotation	I am passionate about training the counsellors of tomorrow and in my role as course co-ordinator I strive to make the Foundation Degree at Harrow college a thorough and relevant preparation for the rigors of a career in counselling in the modern world.