LIFE-FORCE Counselling courses are taught using the Integrative Approach, which draws on the common ground across therapies and attempts to identify higher order values which can assist future change beyond the level of any single model.

3 Year Training in Integrative Counselling
BACP Accredited Programme

Level 1 is a taster course so that you can sample an experience of counselling training and our style of teaching, to see if this is a journey you would like to take at LIFE-FORCE.

Year 1 commences with Level II, a year of Humanistic Counselling Skills training, both experiential and theory based, with an emphasis on personal growth and development.

Level I Tutors - Susannah Purtell and Sandra Sutton
Level II Tutors - Sandra Sutton and Susannah Purtell.

Years 2 and 3 are the two year Integrative Diploma. Initially you will consolidate your Humanistic training and then go on to experience and explore the psychodynamic approach, eventually learning to integrate the two approaches. By the end of the first term of year 2 you will begin your student counselling placement. To be in personal therapy is also a course requirement.

Level III Tutors- Clare Powell (Course Leader)
Ron Gathercole (Co-Tutor)
Maria Haydon (Group Facilitator).

All of this highly professional three year programme is double staffed at all times.

LIFE-FORCE is proud to be an externally approved Centre by ABC. The scheme is run under the aegis of ABC, the Awarding Body Consortium, who is recognised by the Government as an awarding body, whose qualifications meet the criteria developed through QCA (Qualifications Curriculum Authority).

ABC was established in 1990 when it replaced the North-Western Regional Advisory Council incorporating the union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes. Together with it's predecessors, ABC has provided examination and assessment services and schemes of validation for more than 150 years.

ABC's role in relation to the scheme includes the administration of validation procedures, the process of moderation and the issue of certificates to successful candidates.

This Diploma will qualify you to set up in private practice as a counsellor, or to seek employment in the counselling field. This Diploma will also entitle you to go on and apply for personal BACP accreditation, after 2 - 3 years counselling work.

Detailed prospectus is available upon request