Professional Psychotherapy Certification

Professional Psychotherapy

In this age of increasing stress, studying psychotherapy can help you to help people understand the reasons behind maladaptive behaviours and support them towards leading happier, healthier and more productive lives.

Unresolved trauma or issues often result in negative patterns of behaviour. Psychotherapy helps you understand how stress affects physical, mental and emotional health.

We encourage all readers to study the course thoroughly to obtain an in-depth understanding of all aspects, so you are able to utilise your knowledge to help as many people as possible. Studying this course will help you address a wide variety of problems, including stress, anxiety, depression and eating disorders.

What You Will Learn

  • How psychotherapy helps people resolve inner conflict and how they benefit from seeing a professional psychotherapist
  • How the brain affects our thoughts, and understanding the different parts of the brain and how they impact our behaviour and thinking
  • The differences between the conscious and subconscious mind and how they work together in our day-to-day lives
  • How stress affects emotions, ability to rationalise and patterns of thinking, and how clients react to different stresses
  • The different types of affective disorders, and you will be able to differentiate between one-off emotions and psychological conditions

Benefits of the Course

Studying a professional psychotherapy course can help you in several ways, including:

  • Understand how to offer your own psychotherapy services with one-to-one or group therapy sessions
  • You can help people understand themselves better and address issues and concerns that may be impairing their lives
  • You can use psychotherapy to help people to live happier and more meaningful lives

This course includes

24/7 Student Support

End of course certification

Lifetime access to your course

Compatible with modern devices

PLUS - Access to the exclusive New Skills Academy Study Group!
  • What is psychotherapy
  • Why people go to psychotherapy
  • About boundaries
  • About confidentiality
  • To understand the brain, how it functions and why that’s important to psychotherapy
  • The different parts of the brain and their respective functions
  • The difference between the left and the right side of the brain
  • The nervous system
  • The five levels of the mind
  • The importance of sleep and the stages of sleep
  • Why we dream
  • The importance of learning and the different types of learning
  • The areas of the brain that relate to memory
  • Why we may have poor memory recall
  • Different elements of memory
  • Effects of being tired
  • How different people respond differently to stress
  • The effect of unresolved stress on mental health
  • Common symptoms of stress
  • Coping strategies to help manage stress
  • That a psychotherapist must be able to recognise at what point a client’s behaviour may become a potential illness
  • The criteria for evaluation of behaviour
  • Considerations needed for identifying a mental health condition
  • Examples and guidelines for some mental health disorders
  • What are affective disorders
  • Depression - how to recognise depression, symptoms, time-frame for diagnosis, and some various forms of depression.
  • Bipolar - how to recognise bipolar, symptoms, genetic influence and a look at some related disorders.
ID: YDFT67YHJ
certificate

of achievement

This certificate is presented to

Your Name

NSA

For completing the

Professional Psychotherapy Certification

on 21st November 2025

Selena Hurford

Selena Hurford

Course Tutor

cpd

Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan

Head of Academy

Certificate Example

Anyone who has an interest in learning more about this subject matter is encouraged to take the course. There are no entry requirements to take the course.

The course is broken down into 8 individual modules. Each module takes between 20 and 90 minutes on average to study. Although you are free to spend as much or as little time as you feel necessary on each module, simply log in and out of the course at your convenience.

You can study the course any time you like. Simply log in and out of the web based course as often as you require. The course is compatible with all computers, tablet devices and smart phones so you can even study while on the move!

Once you have completed all 8 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 8 modules. The test, like the course, is online and can be taken a time and location of your choosing.

The pass mark for the test is 70%.

If you don’t pass the test first time you will get further opportunities to take the test again after extra study. There are no limits to the number of times you can take the test. All test retakes are included within the price of the course.

You can either use your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Solo cards or PayPal account to pay for the online course. Our site uses the latest SSL encryption to ensure your safety. All payments are handled securely by PayPal.

You can begin the course immediately after your payment has been received. You will create your login details during the checkout process. We will also send you an email confirming your login details.

We estimate that the course will take about 3.5 hours to complete in total, plus an additional 30 minutes for the end of course test.

Once you have been awarded your certificate it is valid for life. The certificate does not expire or need renewing.

I have really enjoyed doing this course because I could do it in my own time and there is loads of information and downloads to help.

Sharon Hart

This course is very comprehensive. It is packed full of very helpful information to aid the Teaching assistant to use his or her skills and knowledge to the full.

If this course is being taken by those who have no knowledge of being a TA, then in my honest opinion they would certainly know about the role when they finish.

I do like the online tests at the end. It does make you think and definitely reinforces what material has just been read. It is also an incentive when seeing a 'grade' to realise how much has been taken in thus encouraging enthusiasm to proceed to the next module.

In all I would say that this course is certainly worth doing, I'm enjoying it and what it has to offer.

Samantha Morgans

I was very pleased to find a course online which suited both my financial and learning needs.

Really enjoyed the course and would like to take this further. I would recommend this course and found it good value. There is a lack of this type of course available in any colleges in Scotland.

The course has given me motivation to learn and research online about different breads of dogs and their care. I enjoyed the videos attached to the course which were very detailed and easy to follow. I have since purchased the brushes and tools recommended and have had a chance to put into practice what I have learned.

Margaret Whitehead

An excellent course that looks great on any CV and opens career doors. Having an industry-recognised qualification is useful in any line of work.

I have not yet completed the course but anticipate being able to use the skills learned to broadening my careers options. Would highly recommend this course. It has plenty of supplementary material for the user and is as in-depth as it is comprehensive.

Love the flexibility of the course which allows the user to study in his/her own time which is great for those in full time employment or those with family commitments. Excellent course this far.

Richard Barker

I have really enjoyed doing the receptionist course online and I recommend anyone that wants to improve in whatever qualifications they wish to progress in to do it on New Skills Academy. It is very helpful and I have learnt a lot - My family members couldn’t believe how much I have progressed and they have actually said that they will probably do the courses online themselves. I will definitely finish the courses that I still have on here, and maybe do more courses in the future as I have learned a lot and I am willing to learn more as the resources you have on here are brilliant.

Kaoutar Benabdejlil

Amanda Groom

Duration:
3.5 hours

Access:
Lifetime Access

Approved by:
CPD

Learning Type:


Text based modules  Images  Video learning 

Cost:
$120.00

Professional Psychotherapy

In this age of increasing stress, studying psychotherapy can help you to help people understand the reasons behind maladaptive behaviours and support them towards leading happier, healthier and more productive lives.

Unresolved trauma or issues often result in negative patterns of behaviour. Psychotherapy helps you understand how stress affects physical, mental and emotional health.

We encourage all readers to study the course thoroughly to obtain an in-depth understanding of all aspects, so you are able to utilise your knowledge to help as many people as possible. Studying this course will help you address a wide variety of problems, including stress, anxiety, depression and eating disorders.

What You Will Learn

  • How psychotherapy helps people resolve inner conflict and how they benefit from seeing a professional psychotherapist
  • How the brain affects our thoughts, and understanding the different parts of the brain and how they impact our behaviour and thinking
  • The differences between the conscious and subconscious mind and how they work together in our day-to-day lives
  • How stress affects emotions, ability to rationalise and patterns of thinking, and how clients react to different stresses
  • The different types of affective disorders, and you will be able to differentiate between one-off emotions and psychological conditions

Benefits of the Course

Studying a professional psychotherapy course can help you in several ways, including:

  • Understand how to offer your own psychotherapy services with one-to-one or group therapy sessions
  • You can help people understand themselves better and address issues and concerns that may be impairing their lives
  • You can use psychotherapy to help people to live happier and more meaningful lives

This course includes

24/7 Student Support

End of course certification

Lifetime access to your course

Compatible with modern devices

PLUS - Access to the exclusive New Skills Academy Study Group!
  • What is psychotherapy
  • Why people go to psychotherapy
  • About boundaries
  • About confidentiality
  • To understand the brain, how it functions and why that’s important to psychotherapy
  • The different parts of the brain and their respective functions
  • The difference between the left and the right side of the brain
  • The nervous system
  • The five levels of the mind
  • The importance of sleep and the stages of sleep
  • Why we dream
  • The importance of learning and the different types of learning
  • The areas of the brain that relate to memory
  • Why we may have poor memory recall
  • Different elements of memory
  • Effects of being tired
  • How different people respond differently to stress
  • The effect of unresolved stress on mental health
  • Common symptoms of stress
  • Coping strategies to help manage stress
  • That a psychotherapist must be able to recognise at what point a client’s behaviour may become a potential illness
  • The criteria for evaluation of behaviour
  • Considerations needed for identifying a mental health condition
  • Examples and guidelines for some mental health disorders
  • What are affective disorders
  • Depression - how to recognise depression, symptoms, time-frame for diagnosis, and some various forms of depression.
  • Bipolar - how to recognise bipolar, symptoms, genetic influence and a look at some related disorders.
ID: YDFT67YHJ
certificate

of achievement

This certificate is presented to

Your Name

NSA

For completing the

Professional Psychotherapy Certification

on 21st November 2025

Selena Hurford

Selena Hurford

Course Tutor

cpd

Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan

Head of Academy

Certificate Example

Anyone who has an interest in learning more about this subject matter is encouraged to take the course. There are no entry requirements to take the course.

The course is broken down into 8 individual modules. Each module takes between 20 and 90 minutes on average to study. Although you are free to spend as much or as little time as you feel necessary on each module, simply log in and out of the course at your convenience.

You can study the course any time you like. Simply log in and out of the web based course as often as you require. The course is compatible with all computers, tablet devices and smart phones so you can even study while on the move!

Once you have completed all 8 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 8 modules. The test, like the course, is online and can be taken a time and location of your choosing.

The pass mark for the test is 70%.

If you don’t pass the test first time you will get further opportunities to take the test again after extra study. There are no limits to the number of times you can take the test. All test retakes are included within the price of the course.

You can either use your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Solo cards or PayPal account to pay for the online course. Our site uses the latest SSL encryption to ensure your safety. All payments are handled securely by PayPal.

You can begin the course immediately after your payment has been received. You will create your login details during the checkout process. We will also send you an email confirming your login details.

We estimate that the course will take about 3.5 hours to complete in total, plus an additional 30 minutes for the end of course test.

Once you have been awarded your certificate it is valid for life. The certificate does not expire or need renewing.

I have really enjoyed doing this course because I could do it in my own time and there is loads of information and downloads to help.

Sharon Hart

This course is very comprehensive. It is packed full of very helpful information to aid the Teaching assistant to use his or her skills and knowledge to the full.

If this course is being taken by those who have no knowledge of being a TA, then in my honest opinion they would certainly know about the role when they finish.

I do like the online tests at the end. It does make you think and definitely reinforces what material has just been read. It is also an incentive when seeing a 'grade' to realise how much has been taken in thus encouraging enthusiasm to proceed to the next module.

In all I would say that this course is certainly worth doing, I'm enjoying it and what it has to offer.

Samantha Morgans

I was very pleased to find a course online which suited both my financial and learning needs.

Really enjoyed the course and would like to take this further. I would recommend this course and found it good value. There is a lack of this type of course available in any colleges in Scotland.

The course has given me motivation to learn and research online about different breads of dogs and their care. I enjoyed the videos attached to the course which were very detailed and easy to follow. I have since purchased the brushes and tools recommended and have had a chance to put into practice what I have learned.

Margaret Whitehead

An excellent course that looks great on any CV and opens career doors. Having an industry-recognised qualification is useful in any line of work.

I have not yet completed the course but anticipate being able to use the skills learned to broadening my careers options. Would highly recommend this course. It has plenty of supplementary material for the user and is as in-depth as it is comprehensive.

Love the flexibility of the course which allows the user to study in his/her own time which is great for those in full time employment or those with family commitments. Excellent course this far.

Richard Barker

I have really enjoyed doing the receptionist course online and I recommend anyone that wants to improve in whatever qualifications they wish to progress in to do it on New Skills Academy. It is very helpful and I have learnt a lot - My family members couldn’t believe how much I have progressed and they have actually said that they will probably do the courses online themselves. I will definitely finish the courses that I still have on here, and maybe do more courses in the future as I have learned a lot and I am willing to learn more as the resources you have on here are brilliant.

Kaoutar Benabdejlil

Amanda Groom

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