How do students on therapy-related courses get experience and practical training?
Many students are already practising some form of counselling, therapy or helping and take our courses to further their professional knowledge and gain professional qualifications. Ways of practising certain techniques taught in our courses can include practice on family and friends and becoming a volunteer counsellor or helper with a local self-help or voluntary counselling service such as (in the UK), Mind, Victim Support, The Samaritans, a self-help group for a particular illness or condition, a church-related counselling service, or a hospital patient support group. Often, groups will make arrangements for further specialist training or skills courses. We do not arrange placements with such services: we suggest that students make local enquiries.
