Professional Relationship Counseling Certification
Why you should study with us
Professional Relationship Counseling Certification
Note: As a counselor you will need a a professional qualification and be state regulated, to become a therapist. You can use this specially designed course to supplement your traditional counseling qualifications.
This is an in-depth study course and considered as an add-on qualification for professional counselors. It is also suitable for study alongside a traditional counseling qualification.
You will obtain a comprehensive understanding of the emotional issues, problems and obstacles that can occur in a relationship. Every couple is different, and the nature of their relationship will depend on a number of factors. Career or financial pressures and life transition points can weaken a relationship that was previously strong and cause acrimony. An increasing number of couples experience rising relationship stress due to the hectic pace of modern-day living.
You will Learn:
- The different circumstances, behaviors and factors that can have a negative effect on relationships and cause friction between couples
- How each partner expresses themselves and an analysis of control, power and violence in relationships that usually forms the basis of conflicts
- How to help clients uncover hidden, repressed and simmering emotions and redirect their communications with each other using positive strategies
- How to help the couple explore positive and responsive rather than reactive strategies while communicating with each other
- How to counsel couples to recognize patterns in the relationship and analyze the different types of conflicts
- How to help couples overcome their problems and develop positive strategies to sort out their differences
Benefits of Taking this Course:
You can benefit from the professional relationship counselling course in several ways, including:
- Your role as a counselor can help couples overcome their problems and improve their relationship
- Being a relationship counselor can be a rewarding experience as you help people relate positively to one another
- Your services as a relationship counselor can help unite warring couples and restore family harmony and wellbeing
This course includes
24/7 Student Support
End of course certification
Lifetime access to your course
Compatible with modern devices
- Who this course is aimed at
- Who this course will benefit
- Overview of the course content
- About EFT Emotionally Focused Therapy
- The required counseling skills
- The importance of encouraging your clients’ commitment to the process
- An understanding of the cycle of conflict and how to break it
- The foundation levels of security in a relationship
- An introduction to attachment insecurity and its impact on a relationship
- An understanding of emotional experience, and how this includes physical responses
- The importance of communicating at an emotional level
- The three levels of emotional experience
- How primary emotions are an important indicator of what is really happening
- Considering secondary emotions as a reaction to primary emotions
- What instrumental emotion is and why people use it
- Why couples fall into negative patterns
- How to encourage clients to focus on positive traits
- How taking an inventory of emotions in a relationship can help
- The negative behaviors used by couples in a state of conflict
- The importance of identifying when and how the negative cycle of behavior began
- An understanding of the different fighting styles used by couples
- How to encourage a defensive partner to open up
- The ways to encourage couples to work together
- The importance of removing blame from the process
- How to identify and correct negative patterns of behaviour
- How to teach couples to hear and respond positively to each other’s pain
- What withdrawing behavior means / What pursuing behavior means
- The roles of fear and reassurance
- How to recognize emotional states
- How to help a client to face their fears and open up
- What to do when progress in therapy is hindered
- How to Identify shame as a block to progress
- How to help clients to face their fears and move past blocks
- How to identify and resolve attachment injuries
ID: YDFT67YHJ
of achievement
This certificate is presented to
Your Name
For completing the
Professional Relationship Counseling 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 9 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 9 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 9 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 6 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.
For me, as a current employee in Human Resources, this HR Management Course was an excellent opportunity to get more insight of the industry and my job role. The course provided with a lot of relevant information that I could relate to in my job role as well as find ideas that I would be able to adapt in my workplace. I am keen on sharing my knowledge and implementing these new ideas in order to help our company achieve success. Would highly recommend this HRM course to people desiring to join Human Resources as well as the ones already working in the industry as everyone will be able to obtain something that will help them develop as a worker, a person and a future HR Manager!
Sandra Zinkeviciute
I had looked at a lot of different courses like this to help my CPD as an NQT. Not only was it super value for money, but really easy to use and work with.
Having the opportunity to print or PDF information means I can keep any work as evidence.
I have been very impressed with this course and will defiantly look to complete similar courses soon.
Kim Hudspith
I love the course very straight forward. Would love to know if there are any more courses available like this for advancement. Everything is clearly explained and if you get in trouble there is a helpline you can call. There should be more courses like this available online to benefit those people that want to go to work in their chosen field but are unable to pay for a program at college or else where. Well done and thank you for allowing me to pursue my interest and hopefully a career at the end of my studying.
Jo Debbage-lodge
This course was very easy to follow. Any assistance needed was quickly and professionally sorted.
The modules were great. I am a complete novice in this area of studying but was able to follow each module at my own pace and review.
Thoroughly recommend this to any seeking employment in this area. You get a recognised certificate at the end!
What is also useful is you can revisit modules and refer back to even after the course.
There is an exam at the end which was quite hard but it ensures you have read each module carefully ,so you fully understand.
This course is a must for anyone wanting to undertake Admin or PA work.
I passed and can now apply for this type of work with confidence!!
In one word 'Fantastic!'
Samantha Smith
Sophie Watkins
I was already quite proficient in many areas that this course covers as I have worked similar jobs before but felt I could benefit from a qualification. This is a very in depth course that covers all areas of being a personal assistant, even ones that I wouldn’t have ever considered needing to learn.
The in-depth learning has built my confidence to put myself out there and try to get back into this career path. I particularly found the section on faxing to be very useful as it’s something that is done in most offices that I’ve found it difficult to come to grips with in the past.
I am already eyeing up more courses on the site and will be sure to give them a try soon.
Maria Casey
Professional Relationship Counseling Certification
Note: As a counselor you will need a a professional qualification and be state regulated, to become a therapist. You can use this specially designed course to supplement your traditional counseling qualifications.
This is an in-depth study course and considered as an add-on qualification for professional counselors. It is also suitable for study alongside a traditional counseling qualification.
You will obtain a comprehensive understanding of the emotional issues, problems and obstacles that can occur in a relationship. Every couple is different, and the nature of their relationship will depend on a number of factors. Career or financial pressures and life transition points can weaken a relationship that was previously strong and cause acrimony. An increasing number of couples experience rising relationship stress due to the hectic pace of modern-day living.
You will Learn:
- The different circumstances, behaviors and factors that can have a negative effect on relationships and cause friction between couples
- How each partner expresses themselves and an analysis of control, power and violence in relationships that usually forms the basis of conflicts
- How to help clients uncover hidden, repressed and simmering emotions and redirect their communications with each other using positive strategies
- How to help the couple explore positive and responsive rather than reactive strategies while communicating with each other
- How to counsel couples to recognize patterns in the relationship and analyze the different types of conflicts
- How to help couples overcome their problems and develop positive strategies to sort out their differences
Benefits of Taking this Course:
You can benefit from the professional relationship counselling course in several ways, including:
- Your role as a counselor can help couples overcome their problems and improve their relationship
- Being a relationship counselor can be a rewarding experience as you help people relate positively to one another
- Your services as a relationship counselor can help unite warring couples and restore family harmony and wellbeing
This course includes
24/7 Student Support
End of course certification
Lifetime access to your course
Compatible with modern devices
- Who this course is aimed at
- Who this course will benefit
- Overview of the course content
- About EFT Emotionally Focused Therapy
- The required counseling skills
- The importance of encouraging your clients’ commitment to the process
- An understanding of the cycle of conflict and how to break it
- The foundation levels of security in a relationship
- An introduction to attachment insecurity and its impact on a relationship
- An understanding of emotional experience, and how this includes physical responses
- The importance of communicating at an emotional level
- The three levels of emotional experience
- How primary emotions are an important indicator of what is really happening
- Considering secondary emotions as a reaction to primary emotions
- What instrumental emotion is and why people use it
- Why couples fall into negative patterns
- How to encourage clients to focus on positive traits
- How taking an inventory of emotions in a relationship can help
- The negative behaviors used by couples in a state of conflict
- The importance of identifying when and how the negative cycle of behavior began
- An understanding of the different fighting styles used by couples
- How to encourage a defensive partner to open up
- The ways to encourage couples to work together
- The importance of removing blame from the process
- How to identify and correct negative patterns of behaviour
- How to teach couples to hear and respond positively to each other’s pain
- What withdrawing behavior means / What pursuing behavior means
- The roles of fear and reassurance
- How to recognize emotional states
- How to help a client to face their fears and open up
- What to do when progress in therapy is hindered
- How to Identify shame as a block to progress
- How to help clients to face their fears and move past blocks
- How to identify and resolve attachment injuries
ID: YDFT67YHJ
of achievement
This certificate is presented to
Your Name
For completing the
Professional Relationship Counseling 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 9 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 9 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 9 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 6 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.
For me, as a current employee in Human Resources, this HR Management Course was an excellent opportunity to get more insight of the industry and my job role. The course provided with a lot of relevant information that I could relate to in my job role as well as find ideas that I would be able to adapt in my workplace. I am keen on sharing my knowledge and implementing these new ideas in order to help our company achieve success. Would highly recommend this HRM course to people desiring to join Human Resources as well as the ones already working in the industry as everyone will be able to obtain something that will help them develop as a worker, a person and a future HR Manager!
Sandra Zinkeviciute
I had looked at a lot of different courses like this to help my CPD as an NQT. Not only was it super value for money, but really easy to use and work with.
Having the opportunity to print or PDF information means I can keep any work as evidence.
I have been very impressed with this course and will defiantly look to complete similar courses soon.
Kim Hudspith
I love the course very straight forward. Would love to know if there are any more courses available like this for advancement. Everything is clearly explained and if you get in trouble there is a helpline you can call. There should be more courses like this available online to benefit those people that want to go to work in their chosen field but are unable to pay for a program at college or else where. Well done and thank you for allowing me to pursue my interest and hopefully a career at the end of my studying.
Jo Debbage-lodge
This course was very easy to follow. Any assistance needed was quickly and professionally sorted.
The modules were great. I am a complete novice in this area of studying but was able to follow each module at my own pace and review.
Thoroughly recommend this to any seeking employment in this area. You get a recognised certificate at the end!
What is also useful is you can revisit modules and refer back to even after the course.
There is an exam at the end which was quite hard but it ensures you have read each module carefully ,so you fully understand.
This course is a must for anyone wanting to undertake Admin or PA work.
I passed and can now apply for this type of work with confidence!!
In one word 'Fantastic!'
Samantha Smith
Sophie Watkins
I was already quite proficient in many areas that this course covers as I have worked similar jobs before but felt I could benefit from a qualification. This is a very in depth course that covers all areas of being a personal assistant, even ones that I wouldn’t have ever considered needing to learn.
The in-depth learning has built my confidence to put myself out there and try to get back into this career path. I particularly found the section on faxing to be very useful as it’s something that is done in most offices that I’ve found it difficult to come to grips with in the past.
I am already eyeing up more courses on the site and will be sure to give them a try soon.
Maria Casey
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