Joint Professional Life Coaching and Counselling

Overview

About Joint Professional Life Coaching and Counselling

Are you an enthusiastic person who enjoys inspiring and motivating others to reach their goals in life? If you want to help empower people to take control of their lives and move forward in their relationships, careers, health, fitness and other aspects, then this is the course for you.

About Our Joint Professional Life Coaching and Counselling Course

This comprehensive life coaching course refers in detail to the Counselling 1995 National Occupational Standards with an additional lesson explaining the 2007 NOS Revision.

Personal coaching, basic counselling, Gestalt counselling, psychodynamic theory, humanistic theory, cognitive behavioural theory and essential counselling skills are included in the course.

Specific issues such as anger, stress, weight control, smoking cessation, emotional issues, faith issues and group/couples work are all discussed in detail. Relaxation, visualisation and autogenic techniques are also included.

What Can I Do After Taking This Life Coaching and Counselling Course?

Start your own business as a life coach. After successfully completing our life coaching training course, you could start your own business providing life coaching services and earning anywhere from £65 to £500/hour*.

Work as a counsellor. You could also work as a counsellor after successfully completing our Joint Professional Life Coaching and Counselling course, spending time with clients on their own, with their families, or in groups. You could counsel clients in schools, through social services or charities, or in your own private practice. As a benchmark, school counsellors can earn up to £61,000+**/year.

*Source: Myjobsearch.com, Dec 2012
**Source: Payscale.com, Oct 2012

Modules

Introduction

Life Skills Coaching – Client Needs

Life Skills Coaching – Types

Life Skills Coaching – Misconceptions

Life Skills Coaching – Levels of Change

Life Skills Coaching – Coaching Skills 1

Life Skills Coaching – Coaching Skills 2

Life Skills Coaching – Relaxation Therapies

Life Skills Coaching – Altered States

CBT – Part 1

CBT – Part 2

CBT – Part 3

Time Management

Life Skills Coaching – Referral

Life Skills Coaching – Emotional Issues

Life Skills Coaching – Deeper Issues

Life Skills Coaching – Weight Control

Life Skills Coaching – Performance Coaching

Psychodynamic Theory

Humanistic Theory

Gestalt Therapy – Part 1

Gestalt Therapy – Part 2

Counselling Skills – Part 1

Counselling Skills – Part 2

Counselling Skills – Part 3

Autogenics

Life Skills Coaching – Stopping Smoking

Life Skills Coaching – Anger and Stress

Life Skills Coaching – Couples and Groups

Life Skills Coaching – Non Specific Issues

Life Skills Coaching – Faith and Spiritual

Life Skills Coaching – Professional Practice

Requirements

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

Certification

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

Level 5 Joint Professional Life Coaching and Counselling Certificate of Achievement

The course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme. This means that learndirect has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 5 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

The course itself has been designed by learndirect to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. ABC Awards & Certa Awards endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.

*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales

To view a sample of the ABC Certificate of Achievement, please click here.