Certificate in Essential Counselling Skills

The Certificate in Essential Counselling Skills takes place over 10 weeks. This course is designed to give students a real insight into the area of counselling in addition to developing foundation-level skills in the discipline.

This programme is an QQI, Level 6, 10 ECTS (NFQ) module and is one module from the first year of our BA (Hons) programme.  You will receive a College Certificate and a record of Credits upon successful completion of the module.

This module is 10 credits from the first year of the BA in Counselling Skills and Psychotherapy/Addiction/Youth Studies within ICHAS College and successful participants on the certificate programme have the option to progress on to the BA degree programmes at the College.  Should you wish to proceed with the ICHAS Degree Programme, tuition fees for this degree will be reduced, pro-rata (€500.00) by the course fee paid to obtain the Certificate in  Essential Counselling Skills 1. Students would also be exempt from class attendance for this module on the B.A.(Hons) Programmes.

This programme is available only on a part-time basis and will run over 4 Saturdays   from 9.30am to 4.30pm