CPCAB Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills

Applications are open for both our Classroom and Online Courses starting in September 2025.  Please submit all application forms to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Please note these courses allow progression onto our Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies Courses in September 2026.

It is important that we create progression routes for our students at the centre.  Students who study with Aloe will be given fist opportunity to progress onto the next levels on successful completion of the course and recommendation from their tutors. 

We have a 100% pass rate at the centre for this qualification. Tutors are approachable, friendly and knowledgeable in the delivery of their courses.  

Guided Learning Hours – 90 Hours over 30 weeks

Total Qualification Time – 196 hours

Cost: £850.00 plus vat £170.00.  Total course fee is £970.00. 

Additional Cost  :  There is also a once off  CPCAB Candidate Registration Fee of £182.  (this is subject to change as CPCAB have not yet released their new fees for the year 2025).  Other additional costs of the course are the course textbook and printing. 

Next Course

The next Online course is starting in September 2025.  Thursday evening from 6pm - 9pm :  Online platform Zoom

Classroom based courses will take place on a Wednesday day between 9am - 12.pm and Wednesday evening from 6pm - 9pm.  Venue  : 8 Steel Close, Eaton Socon,       PE19 8TT.  (The courses will all run for 30 weeks and end June 2026).

You will be expected to undertake around 4-5 work outside of the GLH(guided Learning Hours)

At our centre we believe the learning experience sets the foundation for building relationships and what this looks like between peers in the class.  We work creatively with students to express themselves in different ways, we use group work to explore dilemmas and get a different perspective from all students in how they would approach a situation.  We offer freedom to express yourselves so that you learn to become the counsellor you are meant to be.  Presentations and self-exploration are a great way for students to bring their personality into the room.  We also use skills practice session to help students build confidence in their skills.

This CPCAB qualification is designed to offer learners the fundamental knowledge, skills and competencies to use their counselling skills ethically and safely in a variety of roles and contexts. This qualification is for:

• Those wanting to start their first level of training as a professional counsellor.
• Those wanting to learn counselling skills in other professional or helping roles.
• Those wanting to improve their professional and personal relationships as part of their personal development.
• Those wanting to learn more about themselves and undergo a journey of personal growth.

This qualification can lead to potential employment or increase employability for those who have a role in supporting others e.g. health and social care, teaching and learning, support and project work, advocacy and mediation or any other helping roles.

It also provides additional skill for those already employed and wanting to increase their listening skills. Their opportunities for promotion and advancement. This does not qualify you as a counsellor. Find out more at www.cpcab.co.uk

Course outline

This is a CPCAB course. The British Association for Counsellors Psychotherapists (BACP), Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions underpins this training. There are seven learning outcomes that will be taught in a variety of ways. Including small group activities, lectures, individual reflective writing, whole group discussions and small group skills practice:-

• Understanding and application of ethical and safe practice.
• Ability to establish and sustain boundaries in the helping relationship.
• Develop and work empathically and understanding difference.
• The ability to stay focused on the helper's issues and concerns using active listening skills and to stay in their frame of reference.
• Use a range of core counselling skills to facilitate with the helping interaction and ability to identify your blocks to listening.
• Your self-awareness and ability to reflect on your learning. You will gain a deeper understanding of your patterns of relating, personal history and structure of self and using it in helping work.
• The ability to use and provide constructive feedback to and from peers to enhance counselling skills.

Entry requirements

No prior experience or qualifications are need. To undertake this Level 2 training applicants must be at least 18 years of age to attend. A short informal interview will also take place to assess potential applicants on their:

• Ability to manage course content
• Ability to translate intra-personal experience into language
• Ability to benefit from self-development and show a willingness to enter the experiential learning and group sharing
• Being motivated to develop as a helper
• Have the ability to show emotional stability
• Good IT skills- you will need to demonstrate the ability to use Word, fill in proforma templates and email documents using an online classroom platform.

Assessment

 Internal assessment.

Internal assessment: - consists of completing a E-portfolio during the course which will be submitted in the final term. To gain evidence for the seven learning outcomes you will undertake weekly journals, small assignments (including a self-review, a taped transcript and a presentation), tutor and peer feedback and various worksheets.

This will support CPCAB criteria outlined in the Candidate Learning Record

In order to gain your Level 2 qualification, the internal assessment must be passed.

Course Attendance

90% course attendance is required

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Progression

Successful learners may progress onto the Level 3 certificate in Counselling Skills which will deepen their theoretical knowledge. Level 4 follows on from Level 3. Level 4 is a two-year, part-time, professional training in which learners are in a supervised practice for 100 hours counselling clients 1-2-1.

(click below to find out more)  

Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies (CST-L3) - CPCAB (visit the CPCAB site)