Psychology and Counselling
Discover your passion and prepare for a rewarding career
Psychology and Counselling
Discover your passion and prepare for a rewarding career
Top 10
in Counselling for teaching on my course
National Student Survey 2024
9th
in the UK for student satisfaction
in Psychology
Complete University Guide 2025
12th
in the UK
for Psychology
Guardian University Guide 2025
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Grow your academic knowledge and develop practical skills
Study an accredited degree
Learn from researchers and practitioners
Explore topics you care about
Get hands-on experience with industry equipment
Psychology and Counselling Courses
Play a pivotal role in peoples lives by learning about people, behaviours, personalities and decision making processes.
Select a learning level
Accredited degrees
Recognised by professional bodies
We offer Counselling and Psychology degrees with accreditation by the British Psychological Society and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Excellent levels of support
Learn from lecturers who know you by nameÂ
Our dedication to smaller classes allows our expert teaching staff to really get to know and how best to help thrive.
Our experienced staff are invested in your personal and academic development and provide excellent levels of 1-1 support throughout your studies.
Use industry standard facilities
Gain practical experience of cutting edge technology
Depending on your course, you will have access to facilities including:
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - to measure brain activity.
- NIRScout - a 3D scalable neuroimaging platform with a dedicated ultra-high-density near-infrared spectroscopy system that measures cerebral cortex changes.
- aLIAS - an affective immersive emotional virtual reality stimuli package which allows researchers to create ‘different worlds’.
- Psychophysiological Equipment - heart rate, cortical processes, muscle activation.
- Eye tracking equipment - shifts in visual attention, attentional retraining.
- Interview and Observation Suite.
- Specialist advanced research software - Biopac, Qualtrics, Noldus Observer XT, E-prime, Superlab, Nvivo and Inquisit.
Research degrees
Put your expertise to work with a research degree
Choose to study a research degree with us and benefit from working with high-reputed specialists in their respective fields.
Take advantage of cutting-edge research equipment and software, across a wide-ranging suite of research labs.
We have a growing number of PhD students conducting innovative and original research across topic areas including message framing in various health contexts, workplace integration, wellbeing, policing and many more.
The Human Factor
CPD and short courses developed by our experts
Our professional development courses provide individuals, businesses, and organisations with leading psychological insights and hands-on skills, highlighting the vital impact of human factors in achieving success.
Learn from experienced lecturers
Be taught by staff with real world experience
Professor of Neuropsychology and Neuroscience; Co-Director - Institute of Education, Social and Life Sciences
Antonina plays a pivotal role in leading and developing a successful multi-disciplinary Institute.
Senior Lecturer in BA (Hons) Humanistic Counselling
Jo has an MA in Psychotherapeutic Counselling from University of Brighton, and a PgDip in Person-centred Counselling (course now retitled ‘Humanistic’).
Reader in Cognitive Psychology
Ian is a cognitive-behavioural psychologist. Ian’s research interests include empirical investigations of basic cognitive processes, behaviour analysis, and clinical psychology applications.
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