Certificate Course in Counselling and Therapy Skills

This course has been designed with an amalgamation of numerous hands-on techniques from various schools, such as Psychoanalysis, Transactional Analysis, Client Centred, Cognitive-Behaviour, Metaphor Therapy and so on, to provide working professionals as well as budding professionals with complete exposure and experience of skills required in all stages of therapy.
A 22-hours course spanned across 5 sessions has been designed exclusively for budding as well as practicing mental health professionals. The first session - Building on Foundation Skills - equips participants with skills pertaining to reflective listening, describing behavior, ways of utilizing non-verbal behaviours, managing inner states and rapport formation with clients using mirror neurons. The second session - Building Crucial Skills - equips participants with skills to handle intense emotions, changing behaviour patters using internal representations, skillful questioning and insight into using metaphors in therapy. The third session - Building Advanced Skills - prepares participants in helping client identify their problematic beliefs, bringing congruency in ideal and real self, different ways of breaking limiting beliefs and empowering the client by creating choices. In addition to learning how to take counselling/therapy sessions forward, it is essential to understand ways to rightly close the session for the clients. The fourth session - Wrapping It Up - prepares professionals for the closing of the sessions. Participants are trained to equip clients with simple self-care tools, bringing reflections to the sessions, the importance of documentation, planning homework with the clients and helping them experience positive emotions during the sessions.