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Gain a full Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree by topping up your existing Foundation Degree or equivalent. Enhance your practice and reflect on your professional development. Balance study with ongoing practice or other work and personal commitments.
Counselling is increasingly becoming professionalised and practitioners are expected to evaluate the effectiveness of their own practice, apply research findings and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in their field. This course has been designed to enable you to succeed in this changing environment.
Teaching is carried out in an interactive way with a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops. Group work, discussion and presentations are just some of the approaches used in teaching sessions.
Assessment is by a literature based dissertation, a variety of essays and a research activity.
Teaching is one full day a week (currently a Monday) and there may be additional times when you need to attend personal tutorials or dissertation meetings with your supervisor.
We don’t currently display entry requirements for United States. Please contact the Student Admin team on studentadmin@sunderland.ac.uk or 0191 515 3154.
All applicants must be qualified counsellors who have either a Foundation Degree in Counselling or professional level Diploma in Counselling.
If English is not your first language, please see our English language requirements.
The annual, full-time fee for this course is:
*Undergraduate fees are set according to rules from Government in line with forecast inflation. The fee for your first year of study for 2025/26 will be £9,535. You will pay tuition fees for every year of study. Fees may increase every year based on the Retail Price Index.
Read more about EU fees and funding in our Help and Advice article.
Take a look at the scholarships and bursaries that may be available to you.
This information was correct at the time of publication.
Counselling careers include educational counselling (where you help deal with difficulties in learning and social adjustment), forensic counselling (where you become an expert in psychological issues associated with criminal behaviours), and clinical counselling (where you deal with mental and physical health problems).
Past students have gone on to find employment in a range of counselling fields, such as the voluntary sector charitable organisations, public sectors such as NHS and educational institutions, specialist fields such as substance misuse, sexual abuse, bereavement and self-employment (private practice).
There are also opportunities to use counselling skills within your existing profession (such as teaching or welfare work). By having added responsibility for counselling and pastoral work you can become a more valuable employee.
Many employers will be interested in the transferable skills that you gain through a counselling degree. Most of our graduates apply their skills in counselling or similar helping professional roles.
While you are at Sunderland, our counselling careers tutor provides advice, resources and guidance for enhancing your employability so that you begin your future career in exactly the right way.