Institute of Counselling Reviews

I found the reference material well written and easy to understand. the content was well structured and sectioned enough to allow me to break down what was needed in the essay and the case study.

The content itself was excellent - a broad range of theories, well explained in manageable chunks. Reading list and references provided were helpful for further learning. The exercises relating to each theory were helpful in consolidating the learning and applying theory to practice. Having lessons broken down in to separate documents was also useful. One suggestion I'd make for refinement is guidance in relation to the TMA - between the student handbook and the assignment booklet, there are three separate guides on structuring the TA. I found this a bit overwhelming and confusing, not sure which to align with. Could a single, definitive guide be implemented? Being dyspraxic, getting to grips with all the supporting information was a bit overwhelming for me. Can I suggest a dyslexia-friendly formatted version of materials, or at least to have the ability to copy and paste from the PDFs supplied so neurodiverse learners can adapt the font, layout and style of the document to suit my learning needs? All in all, though, I enjoyed the course, found it very useful and am now considering the PGCert. at UWS. This course gave me the opportunity to re-engage with academic learning, so my confidence in my ability to study has returned. I deeply appreciate being able to pay the course fees over a few months - this was an enormous help. Many thanks.

I have only completed Module 1. It was detailed and I enjoyed studying. As mentioned above it would be great to have more access to resources. That being said plenty of links were provided and the course was well structured.

Course content was very detail with good links to external reading.

As stated earlier although the information was interesting I feel a range of media would have been more beneficial. Such as videos or even sound clips.

Some of the links did not work.

I learnt a great deal, and gained more confidence.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the course and it has also given me an insight as to how I can manage things in my own life.

This course gave me a wonderful chance to improve my empathy skills, by getting into the mind of my clients and learning from their perspectives, as well as my ability to structure my counselling sessions better overall.

I wish it was broken down more . It all felt too long somehow.