Counselling Skills NCFE Cache Certificate Level 2

Successful completion of this course will allow you to progress to the Level 3 Award in Counselling Skills and Theory

This qualification is designed to provide you with the underpinning knowledge, skills and competencies to use counselling skills ethically and safely in a variety of contexts and roles.

This qualification is for:

• Those starting the first level of training as a professional counsellor
• Those who want to learn counselling skills in other professional or helping roles
• Those who want to improve their professional and personal relationships as part of personal development

This qualification could lead to employment or increase employability for those whose role is to support others in e.g. health and social care work, teaching and learning, advocacy and mediation, support and project work, other helping roles.

Delivery Options:

Tuesday evening – 5.30pm – 8.30pm.
Start date: 16/09/25. End date: 19/05/26

Thursday afternoon – 1.30pm – 4.30pm.
Start date: 18/09/25. End date: 21/05/25

Thursday evening – 5.30pm – 8.30pm.
Start date: 18/09/25. End date: 21/05/26

You will study the fol­low­ing units:

• Using Coun­selling Skills
• Intro­duc­tion to coun­selling Skills Theories
• Diver­si­ty and Ethics in the use of Coun­selling Skills
• Coun­selling Skills and Per­son­al Development
  

Top­ics covered:

• The impor­tance of being a skilled helper
• Dif­fer­ent types of coun­selling skills and how to use them
• Coun­selling theories
• Estab­lish­ing a coun­selling contract
• Struc­tur­ing a coun­selling skills session
• Self-Aware­ness
• Aware­ness of difference