Psychology and Counselling
Discover your passion and prepare for a rewarding career
Psychology and Counselling
Discover your passion and prepare for a rewarding career
1st
in Counselling for teaching on my course
National Student Survey 2024
2nd
in the UK for overall positivity in Psychology
National Student Survey 2024
12th
in the UK
for Psychology
Guardian University Guide 2025
4th
in the UK for overall average positivity for Counselling
National Student Survey 2024
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Grow your academic knowledge and develop practical skills
Study an accredited degree
Learn from researchers and practitioners
Explore topics you care about
Get hands-on experience with industry equipment
Psychology and Counselling Courses
Get ready to make a difference after you graduate
Play a pivotal role in peoples lives by learning about people, behaviours, personalities and decision making processes
Select a learning level
Accredited degrees
Recognised by professional bodies
We offer Counselling and Psychology degrees with accreditation by the British Psychological Society and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Excellent levels of support
Learn from lecturers who know you by name聽
Our dedication to smaller classes allows our expert teaching staff to really get to know and how best to help thrive.
Our experienced staff are invested in your personal and academic development and provide excellent levels of 1-1 support throughout your studies.
Use industry standard facilities
Graduate with practical experience and use equipment that is used in industry
Depending on your course you will have access to facilities including:
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - to measure brain activity.
- NIRScout - a cutting edge 3D scalable neuroimaging platform with a dedicated ultra-high-density near-infrared spectroscopy system which measures changes in the cerebral cortex
- aLIAS - an affective immersive emotional Virtual Reality stimuli package which allows researchers to create 鈥榙ifferent worlds鈥�
- Psychophysiological Equipment - heart rate, cortical processes, muscle activation
- Eye tracking equipment - shifts in visual attention, attentional retraining
- Interview and Observation Suite
- Specialist advanced research software: Biopac, Qualtrics, Noldus Observer XT, E-prime, Superlab, Nvivo and Inquisit
Learn from experienced lecturers
Be taught by staff with real world experience
Professor of Neuropsychology and Neuroscience; Co-Director - Institute of Education, Social and Life Sciences
Antonina plays a pivotal role in leading and developing a successful multi-disciplinary Institute.
Senior Lecturer in BA (Hons) Humanistic Counselling
Jo has an MA in Psychotherapeutic Counselling from University of Brighton, and a PgDip in Person-centred Counselling (course now retitled 鈥楬umanistic鈥�).
Reader in Cognitive Psychology
Ian is a cognitive-behavioural psychologist. Ian鈥檚 research interests include empirical investigations of basic cognitive processes, behaviour analysis, and clinical psychology applications.
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