CPCAB Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills

Applications are now open for on Classroom based course as well as our ONLINE Level 2 course starting in January 2025. These are condensed courses and will run over 22 week with 2 Saturdays. (24 sessions).   These courses will allow you to continue with your Level 3 journey in September 2025. 

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

Guided Learning Hours – 90 Hours over 30 weeks

Total Qualification Time – 196 hours

Cost: £800.00 plus vat £160.00.  Total course fee is £960.00. 

Additional Cost  :  There is also a once off  CPCAB Candidate Registration Fee of £182.   Other additional costs of the course are the course textbook and printing. 

Next Course

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

Classroom based course will take place on a Tuesday day between 11-2 and Tuesday evening from 6-9pm.  Venue  : 8 Steel Close, Eaton Socon, PE19 8TT

These courses will run in January 2025 over 22 weeks with 2 Saturdays.  

You will be expected to undertake around 3-4 work outside of the GLH(guided Learning Hours)

At our centre we belive the learning experience sets the foundation for building relationships and what this looks like between peers in the class.  We work creativly with students to express themselves in differnt ways, we use group work to explore dilemas and get a different perspective from all studetns 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 focus on the helpee’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 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 class room 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

Apply here- word document, opens in new window 

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)

Successful learners may progress onto the Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies.  

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