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Master of Counselling

Study Method Online
Provider Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors
Recognition Australian Counselling Association
Start Date November 2026, March 2027
Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors

Course overview

Our Master of Counselling is the most popular graduate pathway to becoming a Registered Counsellor in Australia. Entry is available to anyone with a prior undergraduate (Bachelor) degree in any field.

Our Master of Counselling is the ideal qualification for you if you want to transition into a counselling career. As a counsellor with a Master of Counselling, there are many opportunities for you in employed positions or in private practice. You can make a real difference in areas such as grief and loss, relationships, abuse, youth and adolescents, family, stress, trauma recovery, addictions, mental health and many more.

Job outcomes

  • Counsellor
  • Mental Health Counsellor
  • Specialist counsellor in trauma, addictions, grief and loss, family therapy, couples counselling, or child and adolescent counselling
  • Counsellor in Educational settings

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What you'll learn

  • Stages of counselling that are common across therapeutic approaches.
  • A range of contemporary therapeutic approaches to counselling are covered to establish a strong therapeutic base, along with assessment tools and methods appropriate to the counselling setting
  • Review quantitative and qualitative research methods relevant to counselling practice, apply basic statistical procedures and interpret statistical information in counselling research.
  • Identify developmental issues that occur as part of normal human development, as well as issues that may occur when development is impaired or delayed.

Recognitions

Australian Counselling Association

Study method

  • Online Online info icon
    Online delivery - online course content with the exception of assessments and work placement
  • Blended Blended info icon
    Blended delivery - both online course content and partial face to face requirements
  • In-class In-class info icon
    In class delivery - predominately face to face course content conducted at a specific location
  • Virtual Virtual info icon
    Virtual Delivery - Live and interactive classroom-style learning conducted completely online

Duration study load

  • 24 months (Full Time), part-time study available

Delivery

  • Online with work placement and capstone project

Entry requirements

You can apply for entry to the Master of Counselling course if you have successfully completed an undergraduate (Bachelor) degree in any field.

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Course features

Career ready

When you graduate, you will be extremely well prepared to pursue a career in counselling – employed or self-employed – enjoying our strong industry reputation and linkage.

Extremely applicable

This course is extremely applicable to people from all sorts of backgrounds. Whether you are seeking a fresh start in a rewarding profession; or want to acquire counselling skills as an adjunct to your core professions – such as teachers, nurses, ministers of religion, corrective services officers and administrators.

Counselling education specialists

We believe you’re better off learning from a specialist than a generalist. Many training providers deliver courses across a variety of industries. At AIPC, we prefer to concentrate on counselling and community services education.

Flexible learning

With so many demands on our time, it can be difficult to fit study around other commitments, that’s why our Master of Counselling has been designed to maximise your learning from home where you can progress through your studies in a full-time or part-time pace.

Recognition of prior learning

Students are able to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) or Credit Transfer to receive credit for one or more subjects of the Master of Counselling (up to a maximum of 4 subjects).

Subjects

Core Units
MC01Introduction to Counselling
MC02Counselling Proces
MC03Counselling Skills
MC04Ethics and Reflective Practice
Elective Units
MC11Counselling Interventions for Crisis & Trauma
MC12Family Therapy
MC13Counselling Children & Adolescents
MC14Counselling for Alcohol and Other Drugs

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Payment options

  • FEE-HELP

  • Partial FEE-HELP

  • By Credit Card or Direct Debit, each semester for each subject enrolled

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About Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors

The Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors (AIPC) is Australia’s largest and longest-established educator of Counsellors. Our specialist training programs include our acclaimed Diploma of Counselling, Bachelor of Counselling, and Master of Counselling. All our programs are government and industry-accredited.

We are an organisation founded on the principle of enabling people to help others. At the very heart of our logo, designed three decades ago, is the statement “Caring for people.” That’s the core of what we do, and that’s why our work matters.

RTO Provider Number: 0670 | Institute of Higher Education: Provider ID PRV12083.

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