What is Holistic Counselling?

Holistic Counselling draws from Person Centred, Existential and Transpersonal Counselling in the broader context of holistic and humanistic theory. We use a Process Focused Learning approach, where students learn to help others by first applying what they learn to themselves.

To that end, we teach our courses in small groups that work together for the entire course with a skilled trainer who is with each group through their entire training.

Some of the modules offered are: basic counselling skills, grief counselling, addictive process, systems theory, clinical skills, family therapy, relationships, conflict resolution, group process.

See Student Handbook for details. Holistic Counselling, as a counselling philosophy and practice, is based on the following principles:

• Respect for the individual as a whole person rather than a cluster of symptoms or problems.
• Understanding the individual as a member of a wider familial, social and political context which profoundly influences her/his life.
• Reverence for the individual as the expert on her/his own life who will be empowered by discovering the answers to (their own) questions and problems in their lives.
• Acknowledging that it is the basic right of every human being to be loved and acknowledged and feel good about themselves.
• That it is not the right or responsibility of the counsellor to direct, give advice or problem solve for the individual they are counselling.