Advanced Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy
Qualify as a psychotherapist with our Master’s Level Advanced Diploma, on the route to UKCP registration.
About the Advanced Diploma
The Advanced Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy is the qualification you finish your training with. Awarded by Connexus Institute, it is a Master’s Level professional qualification in Column C of the SCoPEd framework, and it qualifies you to practise as a psychotherapist.
It is assessed against the criteria UKATA uses for UKCP registration, so one body of evidence earns you both. When your portfolio is assessed successfully you receive the Advanced Diploma, and we submit the same portfolio to UKATA on your behalf.
Where the Diploma qualifies you as a counsellor, this goes further in depth: four years rather than three, more clinical practice, more supervision, and more of your own therapy behind you.
- Length
- Four years, part-time: one further year after the Diploma
- When
- Eleven weekends a year, September to July
- Where
- 5 The Drive, Hove
- Level
- Master’s Level, Column C of the SCoPEd framework
- Leads to
- UKCP registration as a psychotherapist, through UKATA
Is it right for you?
This is the qualification for people who want to practise as psychotherapists. You might be:
- coming to the end of the four years of Connexus training and ready to qualify
- holding our Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling and wanting to go further
- a counsellor or psychotherapist trained elsewhere, looking for a TA qualification and UKCP registration through UKATA
Where to start
You don’t apply to the Advanced Diploma itself. You join a stage, and the Advanced Diploma is what you come away with at the end.
If you have trained somewhere else, a good deal of it may already count through our accreditation of prior learning (APL). Talk to us before you assume you’d be starting again.
Start with TA 101
Two days, run monthly, and the way most people begin. A grounding in TA before you commit to anything longer.
Book onto TA 101 →Already partway through?
If you are training with us already, you are on this pathway. Stage Three is the year that completes it.
See Stage Three →Trained somewhere else?
If you already practise, or have trained in another modality, some of what you have done is likely to count.
Ask us where to start →How you get there
One training, taken a stage at a time, over four years. Each stage stands on its own and counts towards the next, so you never commit to the whole thing at once. The Diploma comes at the end of year three, and the Advanced Diploma at the end of year four.
Year 1
Stage One: Foundation in TA Theory
The core theory, applied to yourself and your work.
View course →Year 2
Stage Two (a): Clinical Training
Your placement, first clients and supervision begin.
View course →Year 3
Stage Two (b): Clinical Training
Deeper clinical work, risk, group work and research in practice.
★ Diploma awarded
View course →Year 4
Stage Three: Advanced Clinical Training
Depth work, advanced clinical specialisation and your professional identity.
View course →Advanced Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy. Our Master’s Level qualification, and the route to UKCP registration as a psychotherapist.
What you will achieve
- practise as a psychotherapist
- register with UKCP through UKATA: we submit your portfolio on your behalf
- a Master’s Level qualification, in Column C of the SCoPEd framework
- the option to go on to the CTA examination
- the option to train towards supervising others
UKCP registration is through UKATA, an Organisational Member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
What comes next
None of these is required. They are what people tend to do next.
Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) →
The international qualification in TA, awarded by EATA, which opens the way to training and supervising others.
Diploma in Supervision →
For those who want to supervise other practitioners.
Study Support Courses →
Help with the Master’s Level case study, preparing for the oral examination, and mental health familiarisation.
Not sure whether this is right for you?
Come and talk to us before you decide. We’d rather have that conversation early.