Psychology with Counselling

Psychology with counselling will appeal to those with a particular interest in mental health and emotional wellbeing. The course applies psychological principles to helping people navigate emotional challenges. It focuses on developing coping mechanisms, improving emotional well-being, and empowering individuals to achieve positive change.

This course covers all core areas of psychology to offer you a breadth of career options in psychology whilst providing specialist modules that develop counselling skills.

This course is accredited and recognised by the British Psychological Society (BPS). Accreditation by the British Psychological Society means that as a graduate, provided you achieve at least a 2:2, you will be eligible for the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC). Additional costs may apply. Please check with the membership body for details.

Key course benefits

• This course prepares you for a diverse range of career options including in mental health and wellbeing as a psychologist, a counsellor or other helping professions.

• Develop core counselling skills in a safe and supportive environment.

• Embrace diversity and inclusion: Learn to work with psychological distress across different settings tailored to the client’s individual needs considering factors like ethnicity, gender and sexuality.

• Engage in realistic counsellor-client interactions through simulation and role-play.

• Cultivate knowledge and skills that meet the growing demand for wellbeing services as well as sought after transferable skills such as critical thinking, analytic and communication skills ready for the graduate job market.

• Gain real-world experience with an optional UK or international placement year and our Phoenix+ scheme.

• Craft your own path to expertise with specialised mental health and counselling modules across years 2 and 3 and choice of independent project topic.

For all the latest course details refer to the Coventry University website.