Counselling (Top-Up), BA (Hons)

Offered by City of Bristol College, the BA (Hons) Counselling degree serves as an academic top-up for those with Foundation Degree or Diploma-level training, fostering professional growth for practitioners in private practice, agencies, statutory, or nonprofit sectors. It enhances competencies in key areas, building employability through advanced skills, knowledge, and critical reflection on counselling theory, research, and practice. Students gain contemporary insights, conduct research to collaborate with other graduates, and engage in personal therapy for self-enquiry and development.The programme expands on Level 5 curriculum, addressing critical issues such as sustainable delivery, teamwork, crisis response, eco-anxiety, and transcultural competencies. Modules include collaborative practice with stakeholders, a research dissertation, leadership in counselling settings, working with culture and diversity, and coaching/mentoring. Assessments comprise reports, presentations, simulated sessions, case studies, and a dissertation.

The BA (Hons) Counselling builds on the curriculum design of the FdA Counselling at City of Bristol College. It offers you the opportunity to expand on the knowledge that you acquired at Level 5. During the course, you'll engage with critical contemporary counselling issues, such as:

• Managing sustainable delivery

• Teamwork and collaborative practice

• Responding to vulnerability and crisis

• Working with eco-anxiety

• Developing transcultural competencies.

• The course covers counselling research, collaborative practice, leadership, coaching and mentoring.

• Collaborative practice: Identifying and working with Counselling Stakeholders

• Research Dissertation

• Leadership in a Counselling setting

• Counselling within a contemporary context: working with culture, diversity and difference

• Coaching and Mentoring.

• Collaborative practice: Identifying and working with Counselling Stakeholders

• Research Dissertation

• Leadership in a Counselling setting

• Counselling within a contemporary context: working with culture, diversity and difference