Master - Counselling (Advanced)
- 2 years
- Duration
- Upon request
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Online
- Format
- Multiple Locations / Australia
- Location
- Torrens University Australia
- School
Program description
The Master of Counselling (Advanced) certification has been developed to equip you for a position that uses counselling and coaching skills in a specialist work context, or in community and commercial settings to encourage positive human transformation. Through a variety of theoretical and practical skills, the training enhances your ability to provide counselling and support at all phases of life.
You will be equipped with a wide range of skills to assist good interpersonal communication in business, community, education, and wellbeing contexts, as well as to encourage sustained resilience and professional boundaries. This approved master's degree is the highest level of counselling training available in Australia, and it provides students with a complete setting in which to practise their counselling abilities. This degree has also been created to satisfy international study needs.
Program structure
Year 1
- Advanced Therapeutic Communication
- Theoretical Approaches to Counselling
- Life Stages and Development
- Self Care & Developing Resilience
- Mental Health
- Digital Counselling
- Clinical Practice & Supervision
- Advanced Counselling Skills
Year 2
- Critical Literature Review
- Group Leadership
- Trauma Informed Practice
Elective subjects
Choose five specified or unspecified electives subjects below in year two
- Positive Aging
- Grief and Loss
- Coaching and Positive Psychology
- Social and Emotional Well-being in Australian Indigenous Populations
- Working with at Risk Groups and Suicidality
- Empowerment and Advocacy
Price
Requirements for applicants
Admission criteria
- Australian bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study or equivalent, OR
- Australian bachelor's degree or equivalent in a non-related field of study and the completion of the Torrens University Work Life Entry Form and successful completion of the Torrens University Graduate Certificate in Counselling
English Language Proficiency
- Equivalent IELTS 6.5 (Academic) with no skills band less than 6.0 (or equivalent TOEFL, CAE or PTE).
About the university
Torrens University, based on the work of predecessors, has become Australia's premier international university and vocational certified training organization. To provide a new, contemporary, and globally aware approach to higher education, we have partnered with illustrious institutions.
We deliver our programs both online and on our campuses, and we offer a wide variety of undergraduate, graduate, higher degree by research, and specialized degree programs.
Collaborations with businesses, academic institutions, sports teams, governmental agencies, and NGOs all bolster our efforts and increase their reach and impact.
There are two of our campuses in Sydney, four in Melbourne, one in Adelaide, two in Brisbane, one in the Blue Mountains, one on the Gold Coast, one in Auckland, and one in China.
All of our institutions are guided by the vision and principles that serve as their foundation.
Faculties
All of our departments are committed to providing their students with as many real-world learning experiences as possible so that they can enter the workforce as prepared as possible upon graduation.
We have such facultis as:
- Design
- Health
- Business
- Hospitality
- Technology
