{"id":162,"date":"2025-10-29T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:45:24","slug":"level-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/level-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Level 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"color: rgb(187, 34, 34);\">CST-L3 Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<center><div style=\"max-width:600px;text-align:center; border-radius:30px;width:100%;background-color:#eeeeff\"><center><div style=\"text-align:left;border-radius:30px;width:95%;max-width:440px; margin-right:20px;margin-bottom:7px;margin-left:20px; background-color:#eeeeff;border: 0px #ccc solid;border-radius:4px;\"><p style=\"text-align:left;margin-;background-color:#eeeeff; margin-left:120px;margin-right:120px;min-width:300px;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:;0px;font-size:18px;\"><br \/>\n <\/p><p>\n<li style=\"font-size:16px; font-family:Arial;color:black;\"><b>Wednesdays 6pm-9pm<\/b><\/li> <!--\n<\/p><span style=\"color:#b22\">** waiting list only **<\/span> <BR> -->\n <\/p><p style=\"font-size:16px; \">Start: 14th October 2026<\/p><p style=\"font-size:16px; \">End:&nbsp; 30th June 2027<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:16px; \">\nDuration: 30 weekly sessions\n<\/p><p style=\"font-size:16px; \">Location:  online\n<\/p><p style=\"font-size:16px; \">\nGuided Learning Hours: 90\n<\/p><p style=\"font-size:16px; \">Fee: \u00a31125\n<\/p><p style=\"font-size:16px; \"><a style=\"font-size:16px; font-family:Arial;\" href=\"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/CT\/ct_courseSchedule.pl?k=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schedule<\/a><br \/><br \/>  <!---\nOpens for applications: spring 2026 \n\n<BR><BR>\n\n<span style=\"color:#c22\"><B><i>Register your interest now<\/i><\/b><\/span> -->\n \n<p> &nbsp;<\/p><\/p><\/center><\/p>\n<\/center><br>\n\n<p style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;margin-left:20px;color:#000;\">Our Level 3 qualification is for candidates who have successfully completed the counselling skills training, CPCAB&#8217;s CSK-L2 Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills, or equivalent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;margin-left:20px;color:#000;\">You can apply for Level 3 while your Level 2 training is in progress, as long as your Level 2 course end-date is before the start date of your Level 3 training.&nbsp; Your place on the course may be offered conditional to successful completion of trainings which you are currently undertaking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;margin-left:20px;color:#000;\">This qualification is intended for candidates who have already acquired CPCAB&#8217;s Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills (CSK-L2) or equivalent and want to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;margin-left:20px;color:#000;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> take the next step in training to become a counsellor<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \nlearn more about counselling theory, ethics and mental health<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \nbe prepared for work as a professional counsellor in an agency setting<\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;\">Our Level 3 qualification does not lead to employment. It is designed as a pre-practitioner training for professional counselling qualifications but it could also lead to employment in a related field.&nbsp;<\/p><p style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br><\/span><\/p><p style=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;\">To apply for this course you must have successfully completed or be in the process of completing CPCAB&#8217;s CSK-L2 counselling skills course or equivalent.&nbsp; &nbsp;We do not recognise experiential evidence in the absence of a CSK-L2 qualification, and we do not accept qualifications in related disciplines (such as nursing, teaching, social work, medicine or psychology).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><\/p><p style=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;\">Course fees are inclusive of CPCAB registration fee.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verana;font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, Verana\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Candidates who achieve this level of training or equivalent can proceed to Level 4 BACP-Approved Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, which would normally involve a substantial element of on-location training at a training location within travelling distance of you.&nbsp; You can find a list of centres providing access to Level 4 trainings on the CPCAB website&#8217;s Centre Finder.&nbsp; Individual centres may differ in the model of counselling that they train in, and may have specific prerequisites, so we advise that you check those out with the centre concerned.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#8217;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abingdoncounsellingtraining.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}