Transform your work with couples and gain comprehensive knowledge and skills with our contemporary, client-focused course.

Our 12-week course is designed for counsellors who are new to working with couples, and students and practitioners in related fields who want to enhance their couples counselling skills.

It offers an immersive journey into contemporary couples counselling theories and approaches, with an emphasis on how this knowledge can enhance your counselling skills and deepen your relationships with clients.

What sets our course apart?

• Research & evidence-based
• Client-focused content
• Relevant to contemporary Australia
• Convenient, online delivery
• Practice-based seminars & workshops
• A hybrid delivery of interactive modules & self-paced learning
• Informed by more than 75 years of counselling service delivery

Content and topics

• Established couples counselling theories and approaches in use in Australia today
• Extensive research and expert commentary on why particular approaches work well
• Ways to enhance your therapeutic skills and apply new theories and competencies to your practice
• Strategies to support reflective practice
• Common challenges that couples face, such as infidelity, communication difficulties, life transitions, conflicting use of social media, avoidance patterns, family violence and trauma
• Ethical decision-making
• How to support couples who are experiencing complex challenges
• How couples’ emotional and sexual connection can be affected by identity including cultural diversity, gender, religion, health, disability and/or neurodiversity
• The role and impact of single session consultations when working with couples
• How to apply assessment processes and develop working formulations which consider couples’ unique narratives, backgrounds and presenting dynamics.