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.
Absolutely fantastic! I would definitely recommend doing this course if you are a beginner, and I would also say that you definitely do not have to worry as all three learning types are covered! It is also great to have the ability to get in touch with a tutor if stuck, especially if you haven’t got someone at home or work to help you understand something!
If I hadn’t of already completed this course and chosen to start the next level up, I would happily do this course again. However, I would recommend this course, even more so for someone who is trying to learn for a career change! Exactly what I did and because of this very reason, and feared that it would expensive to change my career, and was amazed how easy and cheap it was!
Korin Williams
I started the HR Management Diploma Level 2 – CPD Certified & IVCAS Accredited in November 2016, and I can say hand on heart it has been the best experience of my life.
Everything I have learnt here, every lesson, has been practical and useful, with real skills that are relevant to the real world, instead of hours of boring theory and history of the subject. Straight away we were learning real web design.
This course has been incredibly helpful and I have learnt far more than I could have ever imagined and I have only completed 4 of the 20 modules.
Chloe Gibson
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
Brilliant course. As a busy ,working mum this course gave a chance to change my career but it also gave me a chance to study in my own free time. Very easy wording, education videos, important information you can't find online. The brilliant thing is that even after finishing the course you still can go back to your modules and view the videos again. The help from assistants is great. The minute I contacted them with question they always responded very quickly and professionally.
Monica Carter
The course was very methodical and logical, always pointing towards the goal of learning the information to pass the test. It’s also a very nice course. Made the process seem much less daunting than I had made it appear. The logical and organized approach to the material really made this a worthwhile course.
All the course materials are very easy to understand and access, and the fact that you could study at your own pace when you want.
I want to say a big thank you to New Skills Academy for your effort, heart-felt interest and enthusiasm in putting together this course and sharing it with us. Your frequent, intuitive tips were great memory cues for some of the hard to retain information and very helpful especially for someone forgetful like me. Most of all, you took any worry of failure out of the picture and made it easy to visualize completing the test successfully! Thank you again for all your help.
I will definitely recommend this site to anyone looking to take professional courses. Thanks to them, I now have my diploma in Hotel Reception.
Abayomi Dosunmu Odunsi
Amazing course, great for people that never have time to go to college or evening classes. So easy to complete online and step by step instructions to help you. Will definitely be doing another course after this.
I’m starting my own business and this course will help me get started as it states all the things I need to know and to be aware of. I can’t wait until I have completed this as this will be a new chapter in my life. You have no time limit on this course which is great as I have a very busy life but this course gives you no pressure.
Would recommend this to anyone.
Megan Atkins
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.
Absolutely fantastic! I would definitely recommend doing this course if you are a beginner, and I would also say that you definitely do not have to worry as all three learning types are covered! It is also great to have the ability to get in touch with a tutor if stuck, especially if you haven’t got someone at home or work to help you understand something!
If I hadn’t of already completed this course and chosen to start the next level up, I would happily do this course again. However, I would recommend this course, even more so for someone who is trying to learn for a career change! Exactly what I did and because of this very reason, and feared that it would expensive to change my career, and was amazed how easy and cheap it was!
Korin Williams
I started the HR Management Diploma Level 2 – CPD Certified & IVCAS Accredited in November 2016, and I can say hand on heart it has been the best experience of my life.
Everything I have learnt here, every lesson, has been practical and useful, with real skills that are relevant to the real world, instead of hours of boring theory and history of the subject. Straight away we were learning real web design.
This course has been incredibly helpful and I have learnt far more than I could have ever imagined and I have only completed 4 of the 20 modules.
Chloe Gibson
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
Brilliant course. As a busy ,working mum this course gave a chance to change my career but it also gave me a chance to study in my own free time. Very easy wording, education videos, important information you can't find online. The brilliant thing is that even after finishing the course you still can go back to your modules and view the videos again. The help from assistants is great. The minute I contacted them with question they always responded very quickly and professionally.
Monica Carter
The course was very methodical and logical, always pointing towards the goal of learning the information to pass the test. It’s also a very nice course. Made the process seem much less daunting than I had made it appear. The logical and organized approach to the material really made this a worthwhile course.
All the course materials are very easy to understand and access, and the fact that you could study at your own pace when you want.
I want to say a big thank you to New Skills Academy for your effort, heart-felt interest and enthusiasm in putting together this course and sharing it with us. Your frequent, intuitive tips were great memory cues for some of the hard to retain information and very helpful especially for someone forgetful like me. Most of all, you took any worry of failure out of the picture and made it easy to visualize completing the test successfully! Thank you again for all your help.
I will definitely recommend this site to anyone looking to take professional courses. Thanks to them, I now have my diploma in Hotel Reception.
Abayomi Dosunmu Odunsi
Amazing course, great for people that never have time to go to college or evening classes. So easy to complete online and step by step instructions to help you. Will definitely be doing another course after this.
I’m starting my own business and this course will help me get started as it states all the things I need to know and to be aware of. I can’t wait until I have completed this as this will be a new chapter in my life. You have no time limit on this course which is great as I have a very busy life but this course gives you no pressure.
Would recommend this to anyone.
Megan Atkins
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