MA Integrative Counselling Part-time
University of SunderlandOn campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
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.
Key highlights
- Develops reflexive, anti-oppressive and ethical counselling practice
- Focus on contemporary mental-health discourses and modern services
- Second-year specialism in children and young people or adults
- Award title reflects your chosen counselling pathway
- Taught by experienced practitioners and research-active staff
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:2 — The course is open to any graduate who holds a 2:2 degree classification and has experience of using counselling skills in a helping role.
Scholarships
We Care Postgraduate Bursary
The We Care Postgraduate Bursary awards £2,500 cash to eligible postgraduate students.
Up to £2,500
Careers this course leads to
- Counsellor
- Children and young people's counsellor
- Adult counsellor
- Private practice counsellor
- Mental health practitioner
- Wellbeing practitioner
Cost of study
UK/Home: £9,250 per year | International: £19,000 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of Sunderland, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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