Course overview

Our MA in Psychotherapy Studies with Professional Practice is a brand new 2025 addition to our portfolio of therapeutic programmes. Recently validated by the Open University and developed in direct response to the feedback received from potential students this programme has been created to enable individuals with a first degree in another subject to gain a professional qualification as a psychotherapist as part of their Level 7 qualification enabling them, on successful completion, to practice and work therapeutically.  This Level 7 programme of study is a unique opportunity to extend further into the realms of your own personal and professional development guided by embodied, relational, integrative and holistic learning practices and philosophies which will enhance and transform your life experience as well as your therapeutic practice. In its nature this MA is highly experiential requiring you to fully engage with a phenomenal learning process, this means that you need to be wholeheartedly committed and willing to step into the experience as well as being able to reflect and respond to the learning as it unfurls. The learning takes many forms (workshops, phenomenological conversation, lectures, field trips, reflection, etc),  harnesses different experiencing channels (movement, sound, creativity, visual, somatic, etc) and utilises a range of assessment methods (podcast, negotiated assessment, journal reflection, creative piece, case study, essay, research thesis, etc). Academic excellence is achieved through learning and assessment that stretches and challenges your awareness and understanding in a meetable way, enabling you to fuse and nurture what you already know with new knowledge and insight creating original pieces of work. Our MA is innovative in not only its approach but also its content being the only Level 7 programme in the UK to offer a module in Wild Therapy.      

Course requirements

First degree (any subject) with 2.1 classification or equivalent plus Level 3 Counselling qualification (which included 50 hours + skills practice) or equivalent.

What will I do?

Attend college in-person for two years on a part time basis (Tuesday 9.15am to 5,45pm). Apply for, secure and undertake a 100 hour therapeutic placement within an organisation that offers a psychotherapeutic service (the days and times of this placement will be arranged between student and placement). Therapeutic placements can commence no sooner than the January of the first year and must be completed by the April of the second year). The MA programme offers students the opportunity to enhance their experience further with two residentials (Residential One: Building Community Creatively in early October of the first year and Residential Two: Working Wildly held near the end of May/beginning of June of the first year) and occasional evening and weekend CPD activities and events, we provide notice of the dates of these upcoming events as soon as they are arranged.  

What will it give me?

Level 7 qualification/Masters in Psychotherapy Studies with Professional Practice.

What can I do when I finish?

Work as a psychotherapist/counsellor for an organisation or in private practice, work towards accreditation with a professional body.

What next?

To apply please complete an online application form, following which you will be invited by the admissions team for an interview (this will be approximately 30 minutes long and on an individual in-person basis) and contacted by the programme team to complete an additional information form.  If you would like to chat further to the programme team please contact the programme lead Lindsey Moses on lindsey.moses@bacoll.ac.uk