Therapy Works provides the student an opportunity to use every approach in psychology to enable them to use these integratively. We believe it is vitally important that students have a toolbox of counselling skills to help them find appropriate means to relate to individuals, in order to help these individuals express, explore and work with their feelings. We work towards our students having a sound understanding of the use of metaphor and projective techniques that they can employ in their work.

Therapy Work’s approach to integrative counselling also requires each student to develop their own model of integration within the agreed framework which, apart from the taught modules at Therapy Works, will embrace their previous trainings, education, life experiences and personal philosophies. The experiential and theoretical modules of the course, as well as the self development aspects of the training, are designed to support students to explore their own understanding of theories and how they correlate to their own style, pace and their unique individual ways of integrating therapeutic tools into their clinical practice.

We do our best to provide a forum which facilitates the student’s individual discovery of their personal philosophy of counselling. We translate our model of working with clients with an intention that is truly based on, “I win if you win”, both into our teaching and the facilitation of the student’s own process. We define a student’s learning and well-being as that which fulfils his/her potential within the context of his/her life in their cultural and spiritual community. We therefore embrace and welcome differences in terms of race, culture, religion, age, gender, class and sexual orientation and actively encourage explorations of student and staff prejudices, assumptions and judgments.

Diploma Level-4: Eligibility after completing Certificate Level-3. The Diploma in Integrative Counselling changes the relational stance of the student from humanistic to psychodynamic. More and more approaches with intrinsic skills, new awareness and the use of psychodynamic approaches are provided in the Diploma in Integrative Counselling (Level-4).