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Modules and Teaching

• Three years part-time or four years part-time, on campus, starting in October 2027

  Course structure

  MA:

  You must complete modules worth a total of 180 credits, consisting of:

  • four core modules (30 credits each)
  • a 10,000-word qualifying paper/dissertation in Year 4 (60 credits).

  PG Dip: 

  You must complete four core modules worth a total of 120 credits.

  Year 1 modules

  • Couple and Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy: Skills
  • Couple and Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Development of Psychoanalytic Thought

  Year 2 modules

  • Couple and Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy: Couple Theory 1

  Year 3 modules

  • Couple and Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy: Couple Theory 2

  Year 4 modules (MA only)

  • Theory, Practice and Research of Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

• Teaching

  We encourage innovative and engaging ways of teaching to help ensure you have the best learning experience and provide a range of different modes of learning to help you juggle study with work and other commitments.

  Find out more about our teaching and teaching hours.

  What are the methods of teaching?

  You will learn through lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, group work, self-directed study, assessed written work, individual and group presentations and experiential work.

  Teaching will be on one afternoon/evening a week. Sessions typically run from 3pm until 8.30pm. Please refer to for further information about the teaching days for Years 1, 2 and 3, as these differ for each cohort.

• How will I be assessed?

  Assessment includes process recording and recorded session analysis and evaluation, a couple theory paper, a clinical practice and theory paper and a seminar review paper. The MA also includes a dissertation.

  Please see individual modules for more details.

  Find out more about assessment at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú, including guidance on assessment, feedback and our assessment offences policy.

Entry requirements

Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above) or an equivalent international qualification.

Professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience are also taken into consideration positively and may be accepted in place of a degree.

You will also need to have:

• a minimum of six months' voluntary or paid work experience in emotional and mental health wellbeing
• a Tavistock Relationships Foundation Certificate in Couple Counselling and Psychotherapy or an equivalent level (Foundation/BACP Stage 2) psychodynamic or psychoanalytic counselling skills training.

It would be an advantage to have undergone previous psychotherapy, preferably psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

We will request a short assignment from applicants without our standard requirements.

On your application form, please list all your relevant qualifications and experience, including those you expect to achieve.

You will be expected to attend psychoanalytic psychotherapy once a week within two months of starting the course.

Apply now to secure your place. The earlier you apply, the sooner your application can be considered and you can enrol. You do not need to have completed your current qualification to start your application.

• What are the English language requirements?

  If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 6.5, with not less than 6.0 in each of the sub-tests. We also accept other English language tests.

  If you don't meet the minimum English language requirements, please contact us or see our for more details about how we can help.

  Visit the International section of our website to find out more about our English language entry requirements and relevant requirements by country.

• What are the visa and funding requirements?

  If you are not from the UK and you do not already have residency here, you may need to apply for a visa.

  The visa you apply for varies according to the length of your course:

  • Courses of more than six months' duration: Student visa
  • Courses of less than six months' duration: Standard Visitor visa

  International students who require a Student visa should apply to study on our courses full-time as these qualify for Student visa sponsorship. If you are living in the UK on a Student visa, you will not be eligible to enrol to study part-time courses at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú (with the exception of some modules).

  As a Student visa student, you should also apply to study on campus only, as online and flexible options of study  (if they are available for your course) may affect the conditions of your visa.

  For full information, read our visa information for international students page.

  Please also visit the international section of our website to find out more about relevant visa and funding requirements by country.

  Please note students receiving US Federal Aid are only able to apply for in-person, on-campus programmes which will have no elements of online study.

• Credits and accredited prior learning (APL)

  If you have studied at university (or have an HND or Foundation Degree), you may have accumulated credits. It may be possible to transfer these from your previous study to ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú or another institution.

Fees

• ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's Lifelong Learning Guarantee

  If you've studied at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú before and successfully completed an award with us, take advantage of our Lifelong Learning Guarantee to gain a reduction on the tuition fee of this course.

• Can I apply for an international scholarship?

  We provide a range of scholarships for eligible international students, including our Global Future Scholarship. View ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's available scholarships.

• Additional costs

  It is a requirement of this clinical training that you are in personal therapy at least once a week with a British Psychoanalytic Council-registered psychoanalyst or psychoanalytic psychotherapist (not a psychodynamic psychotherapist) within two months of starting the course. This is in addition to any previous psychotherapy you may have undergone.

  Your training therapists need to be approved by us, so you are advised to check first before entering into a new therapy at the same time as applying for a place on the training.

  For those established in current, ongoing therapy, this will be discussed at interview. The current cost of personal psychoanalytic psychotherapy is likely to range between £50 to £90 per session. Fees are negotiated directly between the student and the therapist.

Careers and employability

On successfully graduating from this Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy course, you can pursue the following career paths and opportunities:

• as a professional couple and individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist, qualified to work in the statutory, voluntary or private sector
• registration with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
• a Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy and registration with the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT)
• entry into the clinical qualification in psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy which leads to registration with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
• Tavistock Relationships and ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú-run CPD courses for qualified clinicians
• progressing your studies to PhD level at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú.

Graduates from this course have gone on to work in private practice, the NHS and at the Tavistock Relationships Psychotherapy Clinic.

Student support

How to apply

• When should I apply?

  You are strongly advised to apply now, to ensure there are still places left, and to give you enough time to complete the admissions process, to arrange funding and to enrol.

  You don't need to complete your current programme of study before you apply - ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú can offer you a place that is conditional on your results.

• How can I get help with my application?

  Get all the information you need about the application, admission and enrolment process at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú.

  Our online personal statement tool will guide you through every step of writing the personal statement part of your application.

• International agents

  If you are an international agent applying to ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú on behalf of an international student, please use .