05/11/2025
CPCAB Level 6 Diploma in the Creative & Expressive Arts with Children & Young People
Commencing: 4th September 2026
Dates/Times: One Friday a month 9:30 – 5:30
Best House, Shefford, Beds.
Plus, fortnightly Thursday (2 time choices) 3 hrs via zoom
Length: 1 academic year – 120 hours
Tutors: Ros O’Hanlon, MBACP and Jenni Lake, MBACP
Course Fee: £1,995 + VAT, plus £280 CPCAB fee
Deposit £600 + VAT
https://bedfordshiretherapeuticstudies.co.uk/l6-cyp/
Download L5 CYP Brochure
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Our Level 6 diploma in the creative and expressive arts for working with C&YP offers cutting edge theory and application enabling you to become a robust and highly skilled practitioner when working with this young, vulnerable, yet highly rewarding age group.
This versatile and deeply experiential course centres around Bronfrienbrennar ecological human development system theory, exploring the child and adolescence psyche and spiritual world. Within this you will explore therapeutic work with children and young people through the lens of theorists, such as Anna Freud, Jung, Klein, and Winnicott. This is all carefully held within Rogerian person-centred attitude and skills.
The training will involve experiential ways of working creatively (sand tray, artwork, somatic practices) with C&YP to allow a depth of understanding of how to put theory into practice, working with children and young people reparatively to develop and strengthen a stronger ego state. The age range covered is 11-18 years.
Topics include: working in a trauma-informed way, exploration of working existentially with adolescence and a focus on difference and diversity, with guest speakers bringing in a wealth of hands on knowledge of working with a variety of C&YP work both within the training and as part of the extra-curricular offerings at BCTS. You’ll gain competence, clarity and confidence in working within ethical and legal requirements with C&YP.
The course will both deepen and broaden your work with this client group supporting you to assess and work with a range of complex client presentations, working safely and effectively. Entering into a programme of this nature offers the opportunity of growth and transformation for students where you’ll be supported to engage with your own attachment styles and young teen and adolescent parts of self. We believe that that you, as therapist, are at the heart of your work and agree with Jung’s take on personal development where the counsellor can only take a client as far as they’ve been themselves and no farther.
Please download the course Brochure for further information.
Training sessions
There are 10 whole-day training days in person throughout the academic year. These workshops will contain theory, experiential learning, skills practice and discussion groups. This will be deepened in term-time fortnightly online, via zoom, sessions. The centre uses google classrooms where all course resources will be available.
Self-directed Study
Being a level 6 diploma there is an expectation that students engage in reading and research to support their learning, the writing of assignments and to contribute to topics explored throughout the training.
Additional requirements
To accrue 60 supervised client hours during the course.
To be a member of a professional body and to be in supervised practice.
Recommended to engage in 20 personal therapy sessions throughout the course.
Assessment
Self Review essay x 2
Case Presentation
Group Discussions
Tutor/Peer observations
Heuristic Enquiry Project ongoing throughout the course
E-portfolios
All of your assessed work will be kept in a portfolio online in a Google Drive account. It is free to create and easy to use.
Course entry Requirements
To hold a minimum of a Level 4 diploma in counselling
To have a minimum of 100 client hours
To have completed a minimum of 40 hours personal therapy and to be able to evidence this
To have worked through your own trauma & attachment wounds sufficiently to undertake a course of this nature
To have the capacity to take responsibility for own safety and capacity to take responsibility for own reactions, experiences and feelings
To have sufficient external support in place and to be prepared to work through anything that arises during the training in supervision or personal therapy
To Apply
Complete application form and submit to info@bedfordshiretherapeuticstudies.co.uk
Submit a supervisor reference, photographed ID, and L4 cert.
Attend interview
Upon offer and acceptance hold place with a £600 + VAT deposit
A course designed to explore the therapeutic work with CYP through the lens of theorists , such as Anna Feudian, Jungian, Klienian and winnicottian theories
