The Institute of Counselling was founded in 1985 as a Christian based, not for profit independent educational body. It is committed to promoting pastoral care throughout the services it provides.

The Aims of the Institute of Counselling are:

• To promote the training and development of counselling skills

• To provide opportunities for continuing professional development

• To produce and distribute counselling skills training resources

• To provide a counselling service for individuals needing counselling

The Institute provides a wide range of counselling and related courses. Students enrol with assurance and confidence on our quality courses, which are fully backed by the experience and resources of the Institute of Counselling.

In its early years the Institute offered only courses in Clinical and Pastoral Counselling, within a pastoral context. Since 1985, over 18,000 students from the UK and overseas have enrolled on these courses.

In recent years, the Institute has also produced a selection of further courses which follow the clinical, person-centred approach developed by Carl Rogers and others.

The Institute is committed to providing counselling skills training to all who will benefit from the courses. On this basis a non-discriminatory policy is operated with regard to students' background, culture, ethnic origin, gender, age or creed.

What's on offer

The Institute of Counselling are a Distance Learning Centre specialising in Counselling subjects. We offer a wide range of Certificate and Diploma level courses dealing with many different counselling areas, such as, Coaching and Mentoring, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Spiritual Care, Addictions Counselling and many, many more. Students are given full tutorial support by telephone and email.