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Diploma in Counselling
Earn a living as a counsellor, and help other people
Did you know...? Depression, divorce and sexual problems are all on the increase.
Sadly, that’s good news for you as a would-be counsellor. It means the demand for counsellors can only grow.
Life is more complex than it used to be. Which means there’s an increasing demand for counsellors. Let’s take just four examples:
- Many people no longer have a network of family members or a community. So they have no one whom they can turn to for help. A counsellor can provide the advice and support that others can’t bring.
- Women are no longer willing to tolerate abuse or bad behaviour from their partners. They often require their partners to seek advice. 66% of mid-life divorces are initiated by women. Counsellors can help bring partners together.
- Old people are separated from the family, and have no one to turn to. After a busy life, they can become lonely and troubled. Counsellors can provide real solutions.
- Because their parents work, children often lack the detailed care and support given by parents. Some turn to drugs. Other children have problems at school, and stop going. Again a counsellor can help.
And that means more people are seeking the support of a counsellor. So there’s a bigger opportunity for you to become a counsellor.
You can be the person who, day by day, helps the world become a slightly better place.
And you can achieve that by gaining the Diploma in Counselling from the Blackford Centre. You can study the course online at home, and there’s a printed edition that comes to your door. There’s no pressure – and we give you lots of support.
A complete course
We give you the tools and techniques you need to help people as a counsellor. The course is full of activities, suggestions, tips and ideas that you can instantly use with your clients.
We explain how to set up your own counselling practice. We show you how to launch and market it, and how to get clients. You’d be surprised how many courses don’t cover this adequately.
Counselling is very flexible. You can counsel people by phone, by email, and by face-to-face meetings.
And the easiest way to become a counsellor is to enrol on our online course, the Diploma in Counselling. It contains everything you need to know about counselling.
What’s more, the course offers flexibility. You can start whenever you want, and structure your own study plan within the years allocated study time. And whenever you have a query, you can phone or email a course advisor.
“Since completing the course I have been able to use the skills acquired on the course. It has helped me work in the Salvation Army as a counsellor and have my own practice room available to use. So found the course to have given me confidence and ability to counsel others.”
We created the course to help people like you become a counsellor. Other counselling courses were either too academic, too brief, or lacking in interactivity to do the job. Which is why we had to prepare our own.
QLS Level 4 Award
At the end of this course successful learners receive a Certificate of Achievement and a Learner Unit Summary.
Convenience is important to our students
You don’t have to attend classes, or be anywhere at a fixed time. You study at times to suit yourself. Many people study our counselling course in the evening, after work, because they lead a busy life and have a job or family.
These days, people like you lead lives that are simply too hectic and unpredictable to be tied down to attending class on a particular day, or to log into a website at a particular hour.
That’s why distance learning is so convenient. You choose when you want to study. It might be after all the kids have gone to bed. And you decide where to learn – perhaps on the train to work, or under the shade of a tree in your garden.
The counselling course is highly interactive
When you sign up, you’ll get a lot more than just a set of books.
- You’ll have a course advisor, who is committed to helping you succeed. Our course advisors are specially chosen to be caring, supportive and experienced.
- You’ll send in assignments to your course advisor, who will carefully assess them and return them to you with helpful comments. The assignments help to ensure that you have absorbed the lessons.
- You’ll complete regular self-assessment exercises that help you check that you understand the issues involved.
“I set up my business in Canada 3 years ago with no problems what so ever. I live in a small town in Ontario Canada and I checked within my Township as to whether there were restrictions/laws permitting me to do so and the answer was No. I also belong to ICF (International Coaching Federation), a good way to link with others, keep up to date on restrictions/changes impacting coaches/counsellors and this group offers benefits such as reduced Insurance E/O (errors & Omissions). Other way to connect with others, is the internet by using LinkedIn…an application that allows you to connect with other coaches/counsellors and groups around the world. Meet thousands of people just like ourselves…sharing knowledge, expertise and opportunities. I highly recommend this to your new counsellors.”
Bonuses
You’ll get a range of useful bonus items that will help you in so many ways.
Bonus 1. The Diary of a Professional Counsellor (Value £35)
Follow the highs and lows of a professional counsellor’s life, as our counsellor reports each week on her experiences in the field.
You’ll get insights into her day, and learn from her successes and failures. The Diary is available exclusively to our learners.
Bonus 2. Business Blueprints (Value £17)
This 47-page book contains complete step-by-step checklists for starting a successful business. Click here to learn more about Business Blueprints.
Bonus 3. A Guide to Online Counselling (Value £16)
Online counselling is a big opportunity for the future. This guide teaches you how to provide an online counselling service. It’s not available elsewhere.
Bonus 4. The Counsellor’s Toolkit (Value £37)
This ebook contains 21 tried and tested tools used by professional counsellors. They help you understand your client better, give the client insights into themselves, and let the client move forward with their life. If you’re unsure how to help a client, these powerful tools provide instant aids. Each of the 21 tools includes practical ‘how-to’ instructions for use. Use the Counsellor’s Toolkit and see your client transformed. This toolkit is not available anywhere else.
Bonus 5. Roadmap (Value £14)
Our Roadmap shows you, step-by-step, what you have to do to become a counsellor. It is not available anywhere else. Comes with instructions for use. “It made everything clear and simple.”
Bonus 6. ‘Guide to Being a Marriage Preparation Coach’ eBook and downloadable Wedding Journal (Value £15)
This guide includes a wedding journal for your clients and full details of how to be a pre-marriage coach. Not available anywhere else.
Student Success Story
“I have thoroughly enjoyed doing the Diploma in Counselling course.
It took me longer than I anticipated due to family and other commitments, but the Blackford Centre worked patiently along with me, gently and repeatedly encouraging me to press on. I completed the course with Distinction.
I unreservedly recommend this course to anyone who wants to deepen their counselling knowledge and skills, acquire the resources, and the know-how to set up their own counselling practice which is where I am heading to.”
Here are some of the ways counsellors help:
Life as a counsellor is very satisfying. You get to resolve people’s problems, and you get paid for it. Here are some of the situations that counsellors get involved in.
- Save marriages by helping both sides to understand each other.
- Help parents of adolescents to understand their child better, perhaps dissuading the child from leaving home or taking to drugs or the street.
- Give lonely older people the gift of friendship.
- Give angry people tools that let them control their anger, thus making life better for those around them.
- Allow the bereaved a forum in which they can express their hurt, safely explore their feelings, and ultimately come to terms with their pain.
- Help people who regularly get into bad relationships to understand their patterns of behaviour, and give them new ways of handling other people.
- Give people techniques to understand destructive patterns of behaviour (like alcohol or drug abuse) and stop it.
Student Success Story
“The Course changed my life! I started my own practice and I had one client for three years, and from there I started my own event planner company by helping brides with their wedding and also counselling the couple to prepare for their live together. I thing this is the best way of using what I have earn from the study. So I have two companies wrapped up in to one.””
Money Back Guarantee
Examine the course at your leisure for 60 days. And if you for any reason it doesn’t meet your needs, just let us know and we’ll refund your fees. No questions asked.
Why do we offer this? Simple. We don’t want unhappy former students. We’d rather stay friends. And it stands to reason that no course can suit absolutely everyone who registers on it.
When you complete the course
Once you complete the course, you’ll receive your Diploma. It’s a formal recognition of your skills and knowledge.
We’ll send information about your success to your local newspapers if you want. It’s a good way of telling potential clients about your availability.
You’ll get free logos (like the one below) to put on your website and your letterhead. They give potential clients added confidence in your skills.
I strongly urge you to register today. Delaying this will only increase the time it takes for you to get started as a counsellor.
“The course has prepared me well, into what to expect out there in the counselling world. In the beginning the course appeared quite simple, and I had thought it might not have had any value to me in the coming future…But after I got started with the course material, I found the relevance to the materials and I am quite pleased with the approach that was made, it definitely was well put together.”
“The course is very interesting, especially the staff, they always contact me to see if I am ok, and how I am getting on, I like the tip that are sent to give me extra ideas and tasks to better my knowledge of being a counselor….the tutor is just down to earth and realistic. If you haven’t gotten the time to sit at a desk in a classroom around hasty people you can get the basics and advance right here with this course….and when it fits your time and schedule, if you would like to you can attempt a deeper class if you feel it is necessary to do so, the price is cool too.”
It’s time to get started
Having read this far, you’ve got what it takes – motivation. Fill out the enrolment form now, because this is where the adventure and rewards begin. It’s easy to start:
- Register now for the counselling course by clicking here. If you need help or information, contact the Blackford Centre.
- We’ll ship the course materials to you within two days.
- When you get the course, read the first module. It’s laid out in an easy-to-follow format. Then do the simple first assignment. Upload it to the course portal for marking.
- Continue working through the other modules, until you reach the end of the course. By then, you’ll be earning money as a counsellor.
We look forward to helping you succeed.
With best wishes
Kit Sadgrove
Course Director
“I’m now working for myself. Everything is going so well, I have gone in partnership with another Counsellor and we are going very well. Our client list is growing longer. Thank You for all the support that this course has offered me.
I am so thankful for all the support that I received.
1-2 year update after graduating “I am making a lot of money working as a Counsellor, I really enjoy helping clients to help themselves to overcome the difficulties they have in their lives”
