Our next Open Event is on Tuesday 4 March
Our next Open Event is on Tuesday 4 March
Want to become a qualified counsellor? Want to open your private practice once qualified? Nescot can give you the opportunity to open private practice once qualified at the end of a successful 3 years of training.
Department informationAvailable courses
The counselling department at Nescot has grown in recent years as a result of greater awareness of mental health and reduction in taboos around counselling. If you have no experience at all you can begin at Level 2, progress through Level 3 to the Foundation Degree (FD - levels 4 & 5) after which you will be qualified to practice as a counsellor. If you wish you may continue onto the BA (Hons) in Counselling Studies (top-up) to take your FD to full honours degree status.
Levels 2 and 3 can be completed in 1 year. The FD takes a further 2 years. The BA (top-up) takes a further year. Levels 2 and 3 cover a range of approaches. The FD specialises in psychodynamic counselling.
Our team at Nescot are dedicated to taking you through rigorous professional training with the view to producing skilled competent practitioners, equipped with the knowledge and empathy to make a real difference to your clients.
All of your tutors here are experienced, practising counsellors with various specialties and areas of excellence. The department works to ensure that the courses are kept up-to-date with the latest developments in counselling, particularly in psychodynamic counselling on the FD and more broadly on the BA.
We believe in supporting your learning by being available to answer queries, questions and difficulties promptly and you will have frequent, individual attention from your tutor, including before and after tutoring sessions when you are seeing clients, as well as email and telephone access.
Elizabeth Betts
Dip in HE in Psychodynamic Counselling, Registered Member MBACP.
Elizabeth is a psychodynamic therapist and couples counsellor working in private practice. She is an experienced counselling tutor at a range of levels, modalities and institutions.
Sharon Freeman
Dip in HE in Psychodynamic Counselling, Certificate in Supervision, Registered Member MBACP (Accred).
Sharon is a psychodynamic therapist and clinical supervisor working in private practice. Previously worked as a psychodynamic therapist in GP centre and school therapist. Also experienced in Time Limited and Solution Focused Therapy.
Deborah Cockram
PG Dip Psychodynamic Counselling, Registered Member MBACP.
Deborah has 23 years of experience, mostly working in a workplace counselling service. Also worked at MIND and at a University Student Counselling Service. Further training and experience in solution focussed therapy, crisis and trauma intervention, transactional analysis and person-centred theory.
Sarah Lloyd-Jones
MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling, Practising Member Forum for Independent Psychotherapists, Clinical Member Institute of Group Analysis, UKCP Member.
Sarah is an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist and group analyst. Working in private practice and as experiential/process group facilitator in higher education. Previously intake assessor at a local agency and has run therapy groups in various settings.
Donna Jelley
Dip in HE in Psychodynamic Counselling, Registered Member MBACP.
Donna is a psychodynamic therapist working in private practice. Experienced counselling tutor.
Carolyn Varney
PG Dip and MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling, PG Dip Working with adolescents, Dip in supervision, Registered Member MBACP (Accred), UKCP Registered Member.
Carolyn is an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist fully qualified to work with both adults and adolescents (11- 25). Wide variety of experiences as a counsellor - NHS, voluntary sector, schools, private practise and specialist mentor for a University student. Uses a number of models, including open-ended and time-limited (solution-focused). Trained assessor. Currently runs a school counselling service.
Counselling is an absorbing and engaging profession which has gained in popularity in recent years. Opportunities for skilled counsellors are numerous and varied and challenging. Your training at Nescot is designed to equip you to meet those challenges and to become a highly skilled practitioner, fully conversant with the latest thinking in the field.
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