The BSc (Hons) Counselling is a BACP-accredited degree offering a solid grounding in counselling theory and practice. It provides a shared first year of study before students specialise in either the Person-Centred or Humanistic Integrative pathway from Year Two onward.
Both routes combine academic learning with personal development and supervised clinical practice, preparing graduates to become reflective, ethical, and effective practitioners across a wide range of counselling and therapeutic contexts.
Course overview
During the first year, all students study the foundations of counselling, developing core skills, exploring humanistic principles, and beginning to identify their preferred modality. From Year Two, students choose to follow one of two specialist routes:
BSc (Hons) Counselling (Person-Centred) – rooted in Carl Rogers’ humanistic philosophy and the six necessary and sufficient conditions for psychological growth. This pathway cultivates authenticity, empathy, and unconditional positive regard as the foundations of therapeutic practice, encouraging reflective, culturally responsive, and ethically aware counsellors.
BSc (Hons) Counselling (Humanistic Integrative) – grounded in a relational, experiential, and integrative approach, drawing together theories and methods from across humanistic traditions. This pathway encourages flexibility, self-awareness, and an appreciation of the therapeutic relationship as central to change.
Both pathways balance theory, personal process, and supervised clinical work, fostering professional competence and personal insight.
The degree is underpinned by humanistic values that emphasise relational depth, authenticity, and the belief in every individual’s capacity for growth and change. Students are supported to develop as reflective practitioners, able to integrate theoretical knowledge, ethical understanding, and self-awareness into their counselling practice.
Person-Centred pathway: Self, Relationship, Clinical Practice, and Reflexive Research within the context of inclusivity and ethics
Humanistic Integrative pathway: Theories of Integration; Relational and Experiential Practice
Teaching and learning
Teaching is delivered through weekend workshops and weekday sessions, supported by blended online learning. Methods include experiential workshops, skills labs, theory seminars, group process, case discussions, and supervised practice. Students on the Person-Centred pathway typically attend weekend sessions (PCC Weekends), while those on the Humanistic Integrative pathway attend weekday sessions (HUM Tuesdays).
Assessment
Assessment methods include essays, reflective journals, presentations, case studies, skills assessments, creative exercises, supervision reports, and final reflective and research portfolios.
Clinical placement
Students complete a minimum of 150 hours of supervised clinical practice in approved counselling settings, supported by supervision logs, reflective reports, and clinical seminars.
Programme delivery
The BSc (Hons) Counselling is studied full-time over three years.
Graduates are well equipped to enter professional counselling practice or therapeutic support roles and may progress to further training and accreditation with the BACP or other professional bodies.
Head of Programme, BSc (Hons) Counselling, Humanistic Integrative Pathway
At least one Level 3 qualification such as an A Level, AS Level, Advanced Apprenticeship, International Baccalaureate Diploma, Level 3 NVQ, T Level, or Level 3 National Certificate or Diploma
English Language Requirements: ELTS score 6.0
Initial Fees
Annual Course Fees for 2026/27 (indicative)
This fee is provisional and is based on the fee cap expected for providers with an approved Access and Participation Plan (APP). If our APP is not approved, the final tuition fee will align with the maximum amount of tuition fee loan available from Student Finance England for providers in our category.
We will update applicants immediately once the final fee is confirmed.
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