30-Week Standard Course
Learn at a Steady Pace
A structured CPCAB Level 2 online course in counselling skills designed for mastering new skills without the rush - specifically created for busy learners and working professionals.
Ideal for:
✅ Busy professionals or parents needing a more flexible schedule
✅ Learners who prefer a steady, in-depth pace
✅ Those balancing work or other commitments while studying
✅ Individuals who want extra time to practice and absorb concepts
How the course helps you
Gaining a CPCAB Level 2 certificate in counselling (CSK-L2) skills empowers individuals to provide safe, ethical, and effective support. It equips helpers with the ability to communicate empathetically, establish clear boundaries, and respond to others’ needs with confidence and professionalism. By developing self-awareness, ethical awareness, and reflective practice, learners can enhance the quality of their interactions and create meaningful, positive change in the lives of those they support.
Ultimately, this training transforms natural helping instincts into skilled, impactful, and responsible counselling practice, ensuring both the helper and the helpee benefit from a structured, thoughtful, and supportive approach.
Summary
📅 Duration: 30 Weeks
💻 Format: 100% Online
⏳ Time Commitment: 3.5+ hrs/week
🏆 Outcome: Gain Level 3-ready skills and a Level 2 CPCAB certificate
🤝 Support: Qualified counselling tutors, with high-quality experience
🚀 Launch your counselling career
Our CPCAB Counselling Skills Level 2 Course is a wonderful first step towards becoming a professional counsellor. It is an opportunity to improve not only your professional development but your personal relationships too.
The course offers you the underpinning knowledge, skills, and competencies to use counselling skills ethically and safely in a variety of contexts and roles. Whether on the intensive or standard course, students are provided with 90hrs of tutor-led, class-based learning, all 100% online.
Progress Timeline
📚 Week 1-6:
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Beginnings, and introductions
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Respect, and confidentiality
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Boundaries, and empathy
💡 Week 7-14:
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Paraphrasing, and reflection
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Safety, and limits of ability
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Self-enquiry, and the power of curiosity
🚀 Week 15-24:
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Patterns of relationships
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Working ethically, and BACP
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Timelines and laying out our past
🎓 Week 25-30:
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Challenge, and challenging
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Self-reflection, and assumptions
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Endings
Course Highlights
Learners are guided through the stages of developing Level 2 counselling skills. The course looks at initiating sessions, setting boundaries as well as what constitutes working safely.
We explore empathy with a focus on how this can be communicated. We look at improving our own self-enquiry, to investigate those unseen forces that guide our feelings and behaviour. And discover the impact of endings.
Our CPCAB Level 2 certificate in counselling skills equips helpers with the ability to communicate empathetically, establish clear boundaries, and respond to others’ needs with confidence and professionalism.
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