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Relationship and Couples Counselling
One purchase, a connected learning pathway.
Relationship and Couples Counselling brings together three complementary courses, each with eight modules. The curriculum combines subject knowledge, responsible role boundaries and practical work.
Who can attend?
Open to everyone for personal development, learning and professional awareness. People seeking healthier relationship communication and boundaries; education and service staff working in client communication; and mental-health or social-service professionals with relevant foundational degrees.
Curriculum
Relationship Coaching
1. Relationship framework in coaching
Establish the purpose of conversations, voluntary participation, mutual expectations and professional boundaries.
2. Expressing emotions and needs
Work on distinctions between emotions, thoughts and behaviour, and communication focused on needs.
3. Active listening and questions
Develop reflection, summarising and questions that help participants generate their own solutions.
4. Healthy boundaries
Practise personal space, digital communication, privacy and saying no.
5. Conflict and relationship habits
Identify triggers, conflict cycles and everyday communication habits.
6. Goal-focused development
Turn relationship goals into measurable behaviours and prepare a monitoring plan.
7. Separation and change
Cover self-care, social resources and seeking specialist support when needed as relationships change.
8. Ethical case review
Practise stopping coaching and arranging safe referral when violence, threats or coercion are evident.
Couples Therapy
1. Introduction to couples therapy and ethics
Learn its scope, consent, privacy, competence boundaries and principles of joint consultations.
2. Couples' interaction patterns
Analyse recurring interaction cycles such as arguing, withdrawal and defensiveness at a theoretical level.
3. A relationship-assessment framework
Explore a structured understanding of relationship history, shared goals and areas of difficulty.
4. Communication-skills education
Work on general techniques such as listening, reflection and expressing needs clearly.
5. Trust and commitment themes
Examine loss of trust, jealousy, shared decisions and emotional closeness through case analysis.
6. Emotional regulation during conflict
Evaluate pausing arguments, reducing tension and maintaining safety during conversations.
7. Violence, coercion and risk
Cover the risks of joint work and the need for referral where partner violence or control is present.
8. Case formulation and referral
Use a fictional case to identify matters requiring specialist supervision and map referrals to appropriate services.
Family and Marriage Therapy
1. Foundations of the systemic approach
Explain patterns of behaviour and communication through which family members influence one another.
2. Family history and relationship mapping
Analyse relationship connections using sample family trees and life events.
3. Power and boundaries within families
Discuss authority, caring responsibilities, conflicting roles and safety factors.
4. The marital life cycle
Examine shared living, parenting, separation and reorganisation through examples.
5. Analysing communication patterns
Identify indirect communication, triangulation and conversational cycles through an educational case.
6. Ethical assessment and consent
Cover confidentiality, consent, records and data security when working with multiple family members.
7. Crisis and safeguarding approaches
Evaluate referral to authorised services for child-safety concerns, domestic violence and mental-health risks.
8. Practice boundaries and case presentation
Report support and referral options for a fictional case while respecting competence boundaries.
Integrated practical portfolio
Create a relationship-communication development plan, an interaction map for a fictional couple and a confidentiality and risk-referral protocol.
Professional boundaries and certificate scope
Relationship coaching does not replace couples therapy or mental-health treatment. Couples therapy requires relevant professional authority, adequate clinical education and supervision; a certificate alone does not confer a right to practise therapy. Family and marriage therapy may require clinical professional competence; this education alone does not confer a therapist title or independent treatment authority.
Frequently asked questions
Which courses are included?
Relationship Coaching · Couples Therapy · Family and Marriage Therapy
Who can attend?
Open to everyone for personal development, learning and professional awareness. People seeking healthier relationship communication and boundaries; education and service staff working in client communication; and mental-health or social-service professionals with relevant foundational degrees.
Does this package confer professional practice authority?
Relationship coaching does not replace couples therapy or mental-health treatment. Couples therapy requires relevant professional authority, adequate clinical education and supervision; a certificate alone does not confer a right to practise therapy. Family and marriage therapy may require clinical professional competence; this education alone does not confer a therapist title or independent treatment authority.