Psychology, counselling & personal development
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City Lit has long-standing experience in offering a wide range of psychology, personal development and counselling courses. Courses range from introductory to professional levels of training and our experienced tutors are committed to personal and professional development themselves. Every year we introduce new courses, ensuring that there’s always something different to try.
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020 7492 2530
counselling@citylit.ac.uk
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Term-time: Mon - Fri 12:30-13:30
Non-term: Tue, Fri 12:30 - 13:30
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Tuesdays 13.30 - 14.30 (please ask at the Department Enquiry Desk).
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- Contemporary developments in the person-centred approach
- Counselling survivors of sexual violence
- Facilitating therapeutic groups
- Group facilitation
- Personal development group
- Setting up a private counselling practice
- The role of attachment in counselling
- Ways into working with couples
- Working with anxiety
- Working with fertility issues
- Certificate in counselling skills (person-centred approach)
- Counselling as a career
- Counselling: an introduction
- Diploma in practitioner counselling
- Introduction to Gestalt counselling
- Introduction to psychosynthesis
- Introduction to transactional analysis
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy: what it can teach other models
- Anger without aggression
- Be the designer of your life
- CBT for low self esteem
- Changing direction
- Creativity and lateral thinking
- Cyber-bullying
- De-clutter your life
- Developing positive body image
- Don't get it right, get it written!
- Finding your positive state: NLP and confidence building
- Free your mind
- From entanglement to connection: exploring issues of life and work
- Improving couple relationships
- Improving your memory and visual thinking
- Inklings: write your self
- Journal writing for self-discovery
- Living confidently
- Living in rhythm: experiential drumming
- Living through bereavement and loss
- Living with shyness
- Mindfulness: be the artist of your life
- Motivational NLP: changing behaviours
- Narcissism and depression
- Neuro-linguistic programming: the healing power of the mind
- NLP: modelling successful strategies
- NLP: problem solving using metaphor
- Older and bolder
- Personal power
- Power without aggression: for men
- Roles people play
- Seeing differently: Drawing on the right side of the brain
- Systemic constellations: deepen your journey towards connection and freedom
- Understand your child's development
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