Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Adolescents
Applications are now open for our Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Adolescents course running ONLINE from November 2025.
The course covers the following 7 units of study:
- Work safely, ethically, and legally with young people
- Work relationally with young people
- Work with client diversity
- Work with an appropriate clinical model with young people
- Work with self-awareness with young people’s content within sessions
- Work with a coherent framework to inform and evaluate clinical work with young people
- Monitor and maintain work with young people in professional settings
You will also be required to secure a placement counselling 11-18 year olds; A minimum 60 hours supervised counselling hours is required to pass the course.
Further information about each of the units and other course requirements can be found in the course handbook below.
Course Details:
- Start date: Friday 7th November 2025
- Session times: 9:00 – 13:00
- Session venue: Online
- Contact hours: 120 hours
- Entrance requirements: A minimum of Level 4 Diploma or equivalent in counselling and 100 counselling hours
- Course Cost: £1650 (£1550 if you register for the course before 1st August 2025
- Awarding Body: Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB)
Handbook
Please note:
- The course is a CPCAB tailor-made course written by Hart Voluntary Action
- You may be required to attend an interview. Entrance to the course will be dependent on you meeting the entrance requirements and the interview
- If the course is oversubscribed we retain the right to not offer a place even if all of the above criteria are met
- Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Adolescents is aimed at students who already hold a counselling qualification at level 4 or equivalent and who wish to work with younger clients in the 11 – 16 age range
- It is assumed that students will already have a sound theoretical knowledge gained from their initial qualifying course. The course is taught in an experiential way and will not focus on the theories of counselling
Application Form
Once you have completed your application form please return to 121@hartvolaction.org.uk
Contact Counselling Services
Call: 01252 815652 (select Counselling Services option)
Email: 121@hartvolaction.org.uk
