Graduate Certificate of Counselling (Foundations of Practice)
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-01-22 | - |
| 2024-05-13 | - |
| 2024-09-02 | - |
| 2025-02-10 | - |
| 2025-05-26 | - |
| 2025-09-08 | - |
Program Overview
UniSQ's Graduate Certificate of Counselling (Foundations of Practice) equips students with foundational counselling skills to enhance their careers in nursing, psychology, social work, or other healthcare professions. Through a blended online and on-campus approach, students will learn to provide client-centered, trauma-informed counselling in diverse contexts. This part-time program includes mandatory residential schools for hands-on practice and allows for progression to advanced counselling degrees.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Enhance your career and gain foundational skills in counselling with UniSQ’s Graduate Certificate of Counselling (Foundations of Practice). The skills you will gain from your counselling studies will be transferable between nursing, psychology, teaching, welfare, human services or allied health practices. Offered part-time, this blended specialisation is undertaken online as well on-campus and can be a great start to your career in counselling or a professional development opportunity for psychologists, social workers or other established health professionals. There is a four-day mandatory residential school for each of the four Foundations of Practice courses, where you'll get hands-on practice at UniSQ Ipswich and learn from staff and other students.
Outline:
To complete this degree students must complete 4 units.
Courses to be studied
Units 4 x specialisation courses 4 Total 4
Careers:
As a graduate, your counselling and case management skills will provide you with the opportunity to work in a professional nursing, psychology, teaching, welfare, human services or allied health practices.
Other:
- This degree has a mandatory attendance requirement for some of the residential school courses. All students will have the opportunity to come on-campus for residential schools, where you will attend face-to-face lectures and tutorials to gain practical experience, use facilities and specialist equipment, and meet staff and other students.
- After completing the Graduate Certificate of Counselling, you have the option to take the credit from your studies and go on to complete UniSQ’s Graduate Diploma of Counselling or the Master of Counselling.
