Undergraduate Counselling and Psychotherapy
Listen, empathise and provide support that shapes lives. We’ve designed our counselling and psychotherapy degree for people who want to develop their knowledge and skills in the field of humanistic psychotherapy.
Learn how to work with individuals as well as developing the skills to work with groups. You will explore the social and political context of counselling and develop your understanding of counselling and mental health in the UK and abroad. Provide therapy sessions to real clients, taking your work to individual and group supervision. Whatever your ambition, you’ll be ready to make a difference in a variety of settings, from charities to schools and prisons to private healthcare, or practice.
We contribute towards your personal therapy in first year. We also financially support your external counselling supervision in second and third year. Personal therapy and counselling supervision will develop your reflective practice, helping you to work even more effectively with your clients.
Learning through experience is at the heart of our courses – we have an extensive network of placement providers giving our students plenty of placement opportunities.
87.5 of our counselling students are employed or in further study 15 months after graduation (Graduate Outcomes data released 2024 from 2021/22 graduates).
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Discover Counselling and Psychotherapy at Edge Hill University
Our teaching team is made up of psychotherapists with extensive experience in their field. We’ll help you explore the theories and philosophies that shape practice, then you’ll spend time applying your learning. And on our BA, you’ll offer therapy sessions to real clients.
Facilities
We are one of the leading providers of education and training for health and social care professionals in the North West of England.
The innovative £14m Faculty of Health and Social Care building provides outstanding teaching and learning resources. These include leading edge clinical skills facilities, ten teaching rooms, dedicated spaces for counselling and psychotherapy training and simulation suites.
