Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy

ACAP’s Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive course designed to equip students with strategies for effective and ethical practice. Building upon the knowledge and skills developed during your undergraduate degree, this course will enhance not only your clinical expertise but also your career prospects as a counsellor. Our Master of Counselling features engaging, relevant core units, covering topics such as trauma-informed counselling, neuroscience, mental health, and contemporary counselling approaches. Emerge from this course with the advanced knowledge, strategies and interventions required to make a lasting difference in the lives of your clients.As with all ACAP courses, this course has a strong focus on building practical, in-demand skills that you can readily apply in the real world. By conducting staged counselling sessions and practising alternative modes of working with clients (such as video and telephone conferencing), you’ll develop an extensive toolkit to improve therapeutic effectiveness. You’ll also complete 240 hours of workplace training and supervision, ensuring you graduate from ACAP with a renewed sense of confidence as a practitioner, ready to take on more complex cases and senior positions.With a Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy online, you’ll be well-equipped to support vulnerable clients across a range of therapeutic areas including mental health, crisis counselling, grief and loss, addiction, and families and relationships.This study program is accredited by PACFA, the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia, and the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). Graduates who undertake ongoing professional development and clinical supervision requirements are eligible to be listed on the Australian Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ARCAP), an independent national register of qualified counsellors and psychotherapists. This course has also been accredited by ACAP under its self-accrediting authority.

International students must meet the following criteria:

A Bachelor degree in a cognate area (for example social sciences, psychology, community and welfare work, nursing, allied health, counselling), or
A Bachelor degree with evidence of at least one year of full-time study in social sciences, or equivalent, or
Successfully completed ACAP’s Graduate Certificate of Counselling

Minimum English Language Requirements

To be accepted into the program, international students who have not completed a Year 12 or equivalent secondary school level qualification or higher qualification in the English language consistent with the requirements for admission to an AQF Level 8 degree course in Australia must have a minimum score of 6.5 or higher in each component (listening, reading, writing and speaking) of the Academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test, or equivalent, upon application.