Psychology, counselling & personal development
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.Contact us
020 7492 2530
counselling@citylit.ac.uk
Telephone hours
Term-time: Mon - Fri 12:30-13:30
Non-term: Tue, Fri 12:30 - 13:30
Drop-in advice
Term-time only: Wed 12:30-13:30
- Assessment in counselling
- Contemporary person-centred counselling
- Counselling survivors of childhood sexual abuse
- Developing intuition
- Facilitating therapeutic groups
- Focusing: a powerful tool for counsellors
- Group facilitation
- HIV matters: working with clients living with HIV
- Introduction to motivational interviewing for counsellors
- Introduction to systemic family constellations
- Introduction to transpersonal psychology
- Introduction to working with couples
- Setting up a private practice
- The myth of Chiron the wounded healer
- Time-limited counselling
- Transference and the counselling procedure
- Using art in therapy
- Ways into working with couples
- Working ethically
- Working with addiction
- Working with anger
- Working with bereavement and loss
- Working with domestic violence
- Working with dreams and symbols
- Working with group dynamics
- Working with identity and difference in counselling
- Working with mental illness
- Working with personality disorders
- Working with recovered memory
- Working with self-harm
- Working with sexual and gender minorities
- Working with shame
- Working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse
- Working with trauma
- Certificate in counselling skills (person-centred approach)
- Counselling: an introduction
- Diploma in practitioner counselling
- Introduction to cognitive behavioural therapy
- Introduction to drama therapy
- Introduction to existential counselling
- Introduction to gestalt counselling
- Introduction to Jung
- Introduction to neuro-linguistic programming
- Introduction to psychodrama
- Introduction to psychodynamic counselling
- Introduction to psychosynthesis
- Introduction to transactional analysis
- Psychology and counselling as a career
- Achieving emotional literacy
- Anger without aggression
- Anger: cool head or hot head
- Be the designer of your life
- Changing direction
- Creating a can do attitude
- Creative solitude
- Creative visualisation
- Creativity and lateral thinking
- De-clutter your life
- Developing positive body image
- Enterprising thinking
- Frankl and the search for meaning
- Free your mind
- Habits of highly effective living
- Introduction to mask-making and self-expression
- Journal writing for self-discovery
- Mindfulness
- Myths, fairytales and everyday life
- Narcissism and depression
- Neuro-linguistic programming and finding purpose
- Neuro-linguistic programming and learning
- Neuro-linguistic programming and manifesting abundance
- Neuro-linguistic programming foundation course
- Neuro-linguistic programming: the healing power of the mind
- New developments in neuro-linguistic programming
- Older and bolder
- Overcoming procrastination
- Personal development through philosophy
- Personal power
- Positive psychology and happiness
- Raising your self-esteem
- Reaching and becoming your own potential
- Right brain coaching
- Stop worrying, start living
- Stress, am I missing the message
- The enneagram: a tool for self-discovery
- Transforming conflict
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Ways into working with couples
Why City Lit?
If you are looking for a great choice of inspiring courses; a bright, modern environment to learn in located in central London; the opportunity to have fun and meet like-minded people, we look forward to seeing you at City Lit!