Outstanding Psychotherapy and Counselling Education
Welcome to The Academy Space: Sheffield
Psychotherapy and Counselling Education
We are an independent, leading counsellor training provider in Sheffield. Established since 2010, we are are a specialist training organisation dedicated to developing ‘relational skills’.
Our External Examiner has rated our centre as ‘Outstanding’ in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024
Do you:
- Want to train as a counsellor/psychotherapist?
- Want to understand more about yourself and others and improve communication skills?
- Seek to enhance an existing role involving listening and interpersonal or ‘people’ skills?
- Wish to enhance your personal and/or professional development?
- Need to develop your staff to communicate and deal with the public or colleagues more effectively?
We offer two courses:
Foundations in Counselling Course - Certificate
This course helps you to develop a range of listening and problem solving skills within a three-stage model of helping. It introduces you to some underpinning principles and important concepts in counselling, supported by an ethical framework and values of working within difference.
Diploma in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy - Equivalent to level 5
Based closely on the highly regarded Diploma in HE in Counselling that we used to deliver at Sheffield Hallam University, updated to meet professional requirements as set out by SCoPeD. The course has been continuously accredited by NCPS for the past 14 years.
Space to grow
Support to succeed
Our counselling courses are carefully designed to support students to develop the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and interpersonal and professional skills needed to help others with emotional problems.
Counselling courses also help a student’s personal growth and self-understanding. Our professional counsellor training is devised to meet NCPS and BACP requirements for training.
Accredited by the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society
Our External Examiner has rated our centre as ‘Outstanding’ in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
The External Examiner commends the Centre for its learning pathway and for its commitment to standards and quality in the delivery of its training programme.
Gail Evans, The Academy Space Founder & Director, author of Counselling Skills for Dummies, and counsellor, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor.
Watch an interview where Gail talks about Counsellor Training
Student Feedback
“A highly professional team of tutors, who conveyed their material with enthusiasm and a genuine passion for their subject. It was obvious that they really cared about the kind of counsellors we would become, being driven by a duty of care to the clients we would eventually be working with. My belief that this was a high quality training has only grown since qualifying. To have been taught such amazing practitioners was a privilege.”
