Our course integrates current therapeutic approaches in an innovative way to prepare you to become a skilled, competent and reflective practitioner. It offers you a rare opportunity to gain both a BACP-accredited academic degree and a professional qualification, and through 108 hours of placements, you'll be well on your way to becoming an accredited practitioner. We’ll give you in-depth knowledge of the four major psychotherapeutic approaches: Person centred; Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); Psychodynamic; Existential. You will develop your understanding of the key feature of counselling – the therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client. In order to achieve this, you’ll undergo personal therapy yourself, starting in year one. You’ll also practise what you’ve learned in lectures through video-recorded counselling sessions in the UEL labs. We’ll enhance your employment prospects by offering you work placements and a number of volunteering and community action projects. Future career: This undergraduate course is ambitious and challenging and, when you’ve seen it through, you’ll find yourself at a level that many other students can aspire to only at postgraduate level. If you prefer to continue with your academic career, you’ll be able to progress to postgraduate studies in psychotherapy, coaching or integrative coaching & counselling disciplines. Or you can go on to do a master’s in Psychology. All these avenues will be open to you.