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MA - Master of Arts
City Campus
Part Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Counsellors work in a wide range of settings, from private practice to charitable organisations and public-sector services. If you’re motivated to support people experiencing emotional, relational, or mental-health difficulties, this course will help you build the professional skills and reflective capacity needed for effective practice.
You’ll develop strong reflexive and anti-oppressive practice, learning to work ethically, creatively, and with an awareness of diversity, difference, and the role of self in the counselling relationship.
A key feature of the course is its focus on contemporary mental-health discourses and the counsellor’s role within modern services. In your second year, you may choose to specialise in counselling children and young people or counselling adults (subject to numbers), with your award reflecting your chosen pathway. Teaching is delivered by experienced practitioners and supported by staff engaged in current research.
Graduates qualify as professional counsellors, prepared for roles across the voluntary and statutory sectors as well as private practice.
