Graduate Diploma of Counselling
Overview
The Graduate Diploma of Counselling provides students with a range of counselling skills that can be applied across work settings, client types and cultural groups. This course examines teaching and learning methods designed to foster personal and professional development and is designed to improve counselling skills of people currently employed or interested in employment within the human services sectors.
Upgrade your skills
- Exercise independent judgement relevant to counselling theory
- Apply advanced skills to work therapeutically
- Written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrate competence in assessment
- Ethical decision-making
Stretch your career further
- Private practice counsellor
- School counsellor
- Rehabilitation counsellor
- Online crisis counsellor
International student visa
International students in Australia who hold student visas are required to study full-time and on campus. Courses that are taught entirely online are only available to international students studying outside Australia or those in Australia who are not on a student visa. Online courses are not available to international students in Australia who hold a student visa.
Professional accreditations
Why Swinburne?
Ranked top 250 in the world for the subject of psychology
Times Higher Education World University Ranking by Subject 202383.5% of students found employment within 4 months of graduating
Ranked top 20% in Australia for 5-star PG Overall experience
