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1 Year Full Time (or Part Time Equivalent); delivered over 8 months – 1 year depending on admission pathway
Blended (Online and Face-to-Face). Online delivery involves live online sessions where students engage with lecturers and peers in real-time interactions. Face-to-face delivery includes on-campus intensives at Melbourne and Sydney campuses.
Adelaide Campus
Full Time or Part Time Equivalent; Blended (Online and Face-to-Face) · 12 hours per week for each subject studied, plus approximately 26 hours per week for self-directed study
February | May | September
Course Overview
Eligibility
Career & Study Pathways
Course Content
Models of Therapeutic Practice
Examines the major paradigms in counselling and psychotherapy, and their theories of therapeutic change. Students study models from psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioural, constructivist postmodern and transpersonal approaches, examining underlying theories, therapeutic processes, and techniques.
Foundations of Therapeutic Practice
Designed to develop the skills needed to build a strong therapeutic relationship with clients, apply self-reflective and client-centred practice, and the use of more advanced counselling skills to facilitate change. Includes on-campus intensives at Melbourne and Sydney campuses.
Ethics, Diversity & Practice
Designed to foster awareness and understanding of ethical issues fundamental to ethical and culturally sensitive counselling practice. Students gain knowledge of principles, frameworks and approaches that can guide ethical decision making, including legislation and codes of conduct within the Australian professional landscape.
Human Development
Offers an advanced exploration of human development across the lifespan through the developmental perspective. Grounded in developmental theories, contemporary research, and developmental stages from prenatal to late adulthood, examining biological, familial, psychosocial, and environmental factors.
Understanding Mental Health
An exploration of the complexities of mental health and wellbeing. Examines core concepts of mental health, different theoretical perspectives of mental health conditions, assessment processes, diagnostic systems, and treatments.
Emotion, Affect and Self in Psychotherapy
Introduces students to research and theory in the study of emotion, affectivity, and the development of self.
Process Experiential Psychotherapy
Includes on-campus intensives at Melbourne and Sydney campuses, providing hands-on skills practice, supervised clinical simulations, and valuable interactions in a face-to-face learning environment.
Common Questions
Yes. Upon successful completion of the Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy, students can further their learning by articulating into the Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Yes. The course has been designed to align with the professional training standards of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA).
Yes. Face-to-face delivery includes on-campus intensives spread over two subjects: COU502 Foundations of Therapeutic Practice and COU508 Process Experiential Psychotherapy. These intensives are only available at the Melbourne and Sydney campuses and provide hands-on skills practice, supervised clinical simulations, and valuable interactions in a face-to-face learning environment.
The Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy comprises 8 equally weighted subjects of 6 credit points each (total of 48 credit points), delivered over 8 months to 1 year depending on admission pathway. A typical full-time load is eight subjects per year across three trimesters.
Yes. This qualification is FEE-HELP approved for eligible applicants. The indicative course fee for domestic students is $24,608.
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