Sam Gallo
Sam Gallo is Senior Lecturer in Counselling & Psychotherapy and Programme Lead for the Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy Studies. You can contact Sam with any questions you have about studying this course: s.gallo@newman.ac.uk.
Welcome
Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy Studies
meet the team
Counselling and Psychotherapy Lecturers
Teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials) will be delivered by Senior Lecturers, Lecturers, Visiting Lecturers and Skills Support Tutors. They have extensive experience in a range of subject areas offered within this course. Below are the names of more teaching staff whom you will meet over the course of your degree:
Faisal Mahmood (Head of Counselling and Psychotherapy): f.mahmood@newman.ac.uk
James Sedgwick: james.sedgwick@newman.ac.uk
Karen Lee: k.lee@newman.ac.uk
The Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy Studies (and associated Certificate in Professional Practice, which is mandatory for Advanced Diploma students) offers 1 year of professional study psychotherapy which, combined with the MSc Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy studies, meets the taught component requirements for professional registration with UKCP in psychotherapy.
The programme (Advanced Diploma) consists of 60 credits at level 7. All modules are mandatory.
Course-specific information will be available to students on Moodle, shortly after enrolment.
Thursdays 10am-5:15pm
Full details of your individual academic timetable will be available on mynewman after you have completed online enrolment and set up your student login.
Additional Costs
The following costs are in addition to your university fees:
- Personal Therapy: Minimum 105 hours (for psychotherapeutic counsellor) or 160 hours (for psychotherapist) between £40 – £65 per session. Minimum 30 hours of personal therapy per year.
- Clinical Supervision as follows: Minimum 75 hours @ between £40 – £65 per hour. 1:6 (1 hour of supervision for every 6 hours of clinical work)
- An audio recording device and / or memory cards or other approved equipment for the storage of audio client audio and / or video records
- Annual membership fees to Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association (UPCA) (mandatory) and UKCP (optional) – normally approximately £50
- Annual indemnity insurance (payable from year 2 of the MSc – normally at least 4 years) – estimated cost £50-80 per year.
- Initial Enhanced DBS clearance fee and update levy cost.
- Travelling costs
- Books
Certificate in Professional Practice (CPP) Enrolment
As part of the enrolment process for both the MSc and Advanced Diploma, you will be expected to enrol onto the Certificate in Professional Practice (CPP) at the same time. There is no additional cost for this programme during the taught programme, however, you will be required to pay one module based fee per year (e.g. £1100 for 2021/22) once you have completed your taught component. You will be instructed how to enrol via our admissions team upon being made an offer to the course.