Skills Education Group
Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills
This is a one-year course beginning 1st September 2025 and ending in June 2026
Training will be delivered from 6 pm to 10 pm and consists of 165 guided learning hours (GLH)
Training will be held at MACP, Unit 1, Annagher, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone BT71 4NE
On successful completion, learners can apply for the SEG Level 4 Diploma in Counselling Skills. Training will be held on the same day and time as the Level 3. On successful completion of this course, candidates can practice professionally and apply for jobs as a fully qualified counselling practitioner. This course begins in September 2026 and finishes in June 2028
The SEG Awards Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills is made up of credit rated units developed in association with Skills for Health, the Sector Skills Council for the Health and Social Care Sector, and awarding organisation partners.
Learners will develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of self.
Prospective learners should be made aware that this level of qualification is not intended to train counsellors and that they will not be qualified to practice
as a counsellor on completion of these qualifications. To do this, learners will need to undertake further training and they will need to check with centres offering this training what their entry
requirements are.
Pre-requisites
No formal entry requirements but prospective learners should be aware, either by interview or other suitable methods, that the course involves experiential learning and self-awareness exercises, which will be demanding of the self in interaction with others.
Skills and Education Group Awards expects approved centres to recruit with integrity on the basis of a learner’s ability to contribute to and successfully
complete all the requirements of a unit/s or the full qualification.
Aims
The ultimate aim of the qualification is the improved performance of those who use counselling skills. It is intended that learners be given the opportunity to
develop a range of counselling skills and skills in self-awareness and self-assessment. These skills will be more effectively developed through a process which encourages learners to assume an active
responsibility for their own learning and which enables them to establish principles and good practice from a shared analysis with fellow learners and staff of experiences on the course and related
experiences.
The SEG Awards Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills aims to:
• Develop a repertoire of counselling skills at a consistent level
• Underpin these skills with an understanding of one major therapeutic model
• Increase the self-awareness of the person and their awareness of the impact that they have on people.
To apply for this course, please download and complete the application form below.
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