About Counselling Msc/pgdip/pgcert in Bangor University

Our MSc in Counselling at Bangor University aims to prepare you to take an active role as a member of the professional counselling/ psychotherapy community. This course explores a range of psychological approaches and therapeutic methods to provide holistic training in adult counselling. You will learn about the Humanistic approach and Person-Centred therapy, Psychodynamic approach and Psychoanalytic therapy, Behavioural approach and Behaviour therapy, and Cognitive approach and Cognitive therapy. You will also be introduced to several integrative approaches, such as REBT and TA. In addition, you will take part in practical activities to develop your communication skills and introduce therapeutic techniques into your practice. This extensive curriculum will equip you to work with clients across various settings, and provide you with a toolkit of evidence-based techniques and relationship-focused methods. This course will also include a solid foundation in Psychology and Research, so that you will graduate with all of the skills needed to apply for doctorate level study or work in an empirically-based practice.

Student Comments and Profiles

Our graduates last year completed placements with the Primary Mental Health Service in the NHS, RASA, and CAIS to provide one-to-one counselling for over a hundred clients across north Wales. Here are some of their comments about the course and placement experience:

"I feel that this course has allowed me to develop my communication and listening skills that are most valuable in both my personal and professional life. My friends and family have expressed how I present myself as more confident now than I was before I started the counselling course."

"This course helped me to develop my soft skills such as teamwork, self-management, written and verbal communication skills. I believe these skills, combined with my improved abilities to regulate my emotions by critically reflecting upon my experiences and perspective-taking, greatly increased my future job prospects."

"Beyond the academic training of the course, the process of the course has taught me more about how I can better help myself in order to help others."

"I have gained perspective, whilst recognizing that I am only just moving out from a sheltered bay and into an expecting ocean, where all encounters behind and before me are grist for the mill."

"The element of the course I value the most is the confidence I’ve gained through facing my fears and the newly gained confidence I have to face future ones."

Academic qualification equivalents

• Bachelor degree minimum 2nd Class division or equivalent.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS: Academic 6.0 or 6.5 This must include a minimum of 5.5 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
• PTE: 56 (51) - 62(58).

Bangor University Highlights

Bangor University Cost of Attendance

Bangor University Tuition Fee

Fee for the available programs varies for different courses as per their level and type. Tuition fee for some of the popular courses has been compiled as follows:

Undergraduate Courses

Graduate Courses (2020 intake)

Cost of living

International students are highly advised to have an idea of the expenses required to survive in a foreign land. While it is difficult to reveal an exact amount required, a rough estimated amount required for accommodation, travel and stay for aspirants looking to study in the UK is around 900 to 1100 GBP, per month for a single student living in Bangor. 

A detailed list of expenses would look something like as has been tabulated below: