CPCAB Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People
Course Length:
Across 1 Year
Course Price:
£1,890 per person
Course Timing:
1x Weekend per month
9:30am to 4:45pm
(See full details below)
Course Location:
In person (Basingstoke)
Start/End Dates:
Oct 2025 to July 2026
Awarding Body:
CPCAB
Essential Course Information:
Course Summary
This post qualifying qualification is designed to give learners the specialist knowledge, skills and competences to work as counsellors with children and young people aged 11-18.
This qualification will enable successful candidates to work as counsellors with this age group in a range of job and career opportunities, which include but are not limited to:
- A counsellor employed by a School or College
- A counsellor in an agency or organisation which specialise in counselling children and young people
- A private counsellor working for an external organisation such as a school, youth club, wellness/mental health setting
- An ‘adult’ counsellor in independent practice wishing to extend their work to cover this age range
- A youth worker in the community
- An outreach worker with adolescents/teenagers
Topics Covered
By the end of the course, candidates shall have greater awareness, understanding and skills in enabling them to:
- Work safely, legally and ethically with children and young people (CYP)
- Facilitate a therapeutic relationship with CYP
- Understand and work with diversity in relation to CYP
- Work collaboratively, creatively and flexibly to engage CYP in counselling work
- Work with self-awareness as a CYP counsellor
- Use theory, research and skills to work effectively with CYP
- Monitor and maintain professional practice and effectiveness as a CYP counsellor
Entry Requirements
As this is a post qualifying course, you must be a qualified counsellor/ psychotherapist with membership to a counsellling/psychotherapy professional body (e.g., BACP, NCS, UKCP), following completion of your core qualifying training such as the CPCAB Level 4 Diploma.
You must have also undertaken a minimum of 40hrs of personal therapy during or after your core training.
Students must also be aged 19 or over.
You must have also undertaken a minimum of 40hrs of personal therapy during or after your core training.
Students must also be aged 19 or over.
Assessment Process
Students will be assessed through a variety of methods, including:
A sessional reflective journal
A 3,000 word essay
A 2,000 word critique of an excerpt of a CYP counselling session
A 3,000 word internally assessed (mock) case study
A 3,000 word externally assessed case study
Further Study
On completion of this course, students are eligible to apply for:
- CPCAB Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- Open University Foundation Degree in Counselling
- CPCAB Level 6 Certificate in Counselling Supervision (with sufficient post-qualifying experience)
Additional Course Requirements
In addition to attending the course, students will be required to fulfil the following requirements (which are financed by the student):
- Engage with 20hrs of personal therapy during the course
- Facilitate 60hrs of counselling with CYP clients (in a placement setting or in private practice)
- Engage in clinical supervision with a supervisor experienced in working with CYP clients
How to Apply
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Course Dates
The course shall be held one weekend per month between October 2025 and July 2026 (9:30am to 4:45pm) in Basingstoke on the following dates:
Saturday 4th October 2025
Sunday 5th October 2025
Saturday 1st November 2025
Sunday 2nd November 2025
Saturday 6th December 2025
Sunday 7th December 2025
Saturday 24th January 2026
Sunday 25th January 2026
Saturday 7th February 2026
Sunday 8th February 2026
Saturday 7th March 2026
Sunday 8th March 2026
Saturday 25th April 2026
Sunday 26th April 2026
Saturday 2nd May 2026
Sunday 3rd May 2026
Saturday 6th June 2026
Sunday 7th June 2026
Saturday 4th July 2026
Sunday 5th July 2026
Saturday 4th October 2025
Sunday 5th October 2025
Saturday 1st November 2025
Sunday 2nd November 2025
Saturday 6th December 2025
Sunday 7th December 2025
Saturday 24th January 2026
Sunday 25th January 2026
Saturday 7th February 2026
Sunday 8th February 2026
Saturday 7th March 2026
Sunday 8th March 2026
Saturday 25th April 2026
Sunday 26th April 2026
Saturday 2nd May 2026
Sunday 3rd May 2026
Saturday 6th June 2026
Sunday 7th June 2026
Saturday 4th July 2026
Sunday 5th July 2026
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