MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy

 Eligible candidates should hold:

• A Bachelor’s degree
• English Language Qualification:
  • IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System)
  • Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
  • Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)
  • TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), internet-based test (iBT) and special home edition
  • Duolingo
  • Or equivalent

This course will provide knowledge and skills in counselling and psychotherapy that are necessary for practicing in a safe environment. The course contains a strong experiential component and trainees are expected to acquire knowledge and skills from the different main approaches and apply them in a synthesized way. The course emphasizes the ethical awareness in the practice of counselling and psychotherapy, and sensitivity to diversity, in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, religion and age. Within the practical component of the course, trainees will be offered supervision and will also be provided with the opportunity to undertake personal reflective work which will facilitate understanding of their personal aspects that will be critical in their future practice. Trainees have to the option to choose either a dissertation or a practical internship and extensively use the reflective practitioner approach, which will help develop their own identity as practitioners.

*Duration of programme:
Full Time
1 year with a dissertation
1.5 years with a practical internship

Part Time
2 years with a dissertation
2.5 years with a practical internship

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Dissertation or Internship: Shaping you professional identity
Students have the opportunity to choose between completing a dissertation or a practical internship, both of which emphasise the reflective practitioner approach – supporting the development of their personal and professional identity as future counsellors and psychotherapists.

Career Opportunities
A graduate of a Counselling and Psychotherapy postgraduate course can work as a Freelance Counsellor and/or Psychotherapist, Trainer, Supervisor or Practitioner Psychologist.*

*Subject to graduate basis; i.e. undergraduate studies in psychology

The degree MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy is awarded directly by the University of York.

*The programme is subject to approval by the Hellenic Authority of Higher Education and it is expected to commence in October 2026