Professional Psychotherapy Certification
Why you should study with us
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
- 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
of achievement
This certificate is presented to
Your Name
For completing the
Professional Psychotherapy Certification
on 21st November 2026
Selena Hurford
Selena Hurford
Course Tutor
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan
Head of Academy
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.
The course was easy to find on the website, and plenty of information regarding course modules, outcomes and any frequently asked questions. There is plenty of choices for a range of courses, which made it harder for me to decide what course I wanted to pursue! The price of the courses are reasonable and doing it in your own time while in employment is a plus for myself. Trying to find time while in full time work is hard in itself, but having a good provider online it has opened the door for me to learn new things and expand my knowledge. I would definitely recommend to anyone who would want to learn online.
Sophie Mangano
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I’ve recommended to all of my friends and would also recommend to anyone looking into doing a course. Go for it you won’t regret it!
Helen Buckwell
Sophie Watkins
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
- 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
of achievement
This certificate is presented to
Your Name
For completing the
Professional Psychotherapy Certification
on 21st November 2026
Selena Hurford
Selena Hurford
Course Tutor
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan
Head of Academy
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.
The course was easy to find on the website, and plenty of information regarding course modules, outcomes and any frequently asked questions. There is plenty of choices for a range of courses, which made it harder for me to decide what course I wanted to pursue! The price of the courses are reasonable and doing it in your own time while in employment is a plus for myself. Trying to find time while in full time work is hard in itself, but having a good provider online it has opened the door for me to learn new things and expand my knowledge. I would definitely recommend to anyone who would want to learn online.
Sophie Mangano
Excellent. Simple to use interface, with clearly written and relevant material. I'm feeling confident with my career change choice, thanks to this course.
Richard Britten
Hello people! This has been a great course for me. I have learned everything I will need to maintain my own and other people's gardens in the future. I just love the Garden design and maintenance course. Thank you so much.
Juliane Ramallo
Have purchased an online training course for an excellent price and I am very happy with the modules, presentation and interesting details contained in the course.
Andrea Berta
I was extremely worried at first that it wouldn’t be what I want in a course but the course is honestly absolutely amazing! It’s made to be really enjoyable, fun and easy to complete and best of all in your own time.
I could not recommend New Skills Academy any more! It’s now gave me something more to put on to my CV and get my career started in the area I’d love to be in for the rest of my life. Thank you so much for helping me reach my goals and achieve my dreams!
I’ve recommended to all of my friends and would also recommend to anyone looking into doing a course. Go for it you won’t regret it!
Helen Buckwell
Sophie Watkins
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