You'll gain experience in adult, child and adolescent counselling, focusing your learning on:

• counselling and psychological theory
• counselling interventions and psychological therapies (for adults, children, adolescents and families)
• practical skills through industry-based learning and placement.

Accredited by the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), the Master of Counselling covers:

• insights into a range of presenting issues, including depression, anxiety, grief, loss and addictions
• an understanding of the ethics of counselling
• the completion of a practice-based minor thesis.

Please note: this is not a psychology course accredited by the Australian Psychological Society.

Partnerships & placements

The Master of Counselling involves placements in professional settings. One of VU’s greatest strengths as a university is our links with industry and we have over 4,000 industry connections university-wide.

This course leads to careers in:

• counselling
• family support
• multicultural services
• community work
• school counselling
• welfare services
• palliative care
• refugee services
• youth work.