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Torrens University Australia

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Graduate Diploma of Counselling

  • Graduate Diploma

The Graduate Diploma of Counselling provides a postgraduate qualification for you to enhance your skills in the professional domain of counselling and interpersonal communication.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Jun, Sep

About this course

The Graduate Diploma of Counselling provides a postgraduate qualification for you to enhance your skills in the professional domain of counselling and interpersonal communication. This online course focuses on the theories and practices of counselling, and offers practical experience through supervised work placement.

You will learn about the importance of personal self-care while caring for others, the effects of vicarious trauma and how to best provide services through telehealth.You will be equipped with professional counselling experience and a wide range of skills to enable further lifelong learning, support continued resilience-building, and facilitate effective interpersonal communication across business, community, education or wellbeing settings. The Graduate Diploma of Counselling enables you to begin a career as a counsellor or enhance your current practice, or can also act as a pathway to the master's degree.

Study locations

Ultimo Campus, Sydney

Surry Hill, Sydney

Torrens University Language Centre, Sydney

What you will learn

  • Identify and analyse the major issues that affect the health of populations.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of policy and management to promote health and welfare.
  • Identify and describe environmental risk factors that affect the health and safety of a population.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to the ethical practice of public health, and the principles of access and equity.
  • Apply local and global public health awareness to public health challenges.