Online Training: Certificate in Child and Adolescent Counselling Skills
Part One (leading to the award of Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health)
Time commitment:
- 10 x 2-hour child and adolescent mental health forums, 5.30 – 7.30pm online.
- One or two Thursday evenings a month or watch the recording in your own time.
Two additional mental health webinars on therapeutic relational skills (watch in your own time). - Assessment: Multiple choice to assess your assimilation of the course content.
Part Two: From Mental Health Theory to Therapeutic Practice (Child and Adolescent Counselling Skills and Interventions)
Time commitment:
- Six weekend dates (online), 10am – 5pm each day: Two additional child counselling skills webinars (watch in your own time).
- The final day will include an assessment. You can attend the training without doing the assessment and gain a Certificate of Attendance not the award.
- You will need to pass assessments from Part One and Two to gain the award.
Fees
£995.00
Dates
Six weekend dates (online),
10am – 5pm each day:
– Sat 10 and Sun 11 October 2026
– Sat 21 and Sun 22 November 2026
– Sat 16 and Sun 17 January 2027
Please note: IATE courses do not qualify for government education funding. As such, students cannot fund our courses via the Student or Advanced Learner Loans.
As we are not able to sponsor international students, you must have the right to live, work and/or study in the UK to join one of our on-site training programmes. Please note that we do not give advice on visas or visa requirements to live, work and/or study in the UK.
Includes second award: Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
A flexible rolling training programme co-run by The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (Academic Partner of the University of East London) and Centre for Child Mental Health.
About the training
- Gain key counselling skills to enable you to develop a meaningful dialogue with a child/teenager in ways which enable them to develop psychological awareness and be able to process painful life events in the safety of a warm empathic therapeutic relationship.
- Learn skills in forming a working alliance, active listening, developing therapeutic presence, unconditional positive regard, how to voice validating empathic responses, collaborative sense making, narrative competence (how to respond to their story about a key life event), use of arts and imagery to deepen communication.
- Provide corrective emotional experience to enable children/young people to develop self-compassion, assertiveness, self-worth.
- Gain a wealth of knowledge about the causes and healing of mental health problems.