Diplomas

Normally students apply to sit the Berne Diploma examination after the second year of Advanced Training. On successful completion of the Berne Diploma it is possible to APL to the Postgraduate Diploma.

The Berne Diploma will be awarded on assessment of written work and an oral examination of your taped work with clients. To be eligible for the final examination, you will need to have completed at least 360 hours of advanced TA training and have provided at least 200 hours of TA counselling to clients.

The Postgraduate Diploma in TA Therapeutic Counselling has been validated by Middlesex University. The training and final examinations for this Diploma are identical to those for The Berne Institute’s in-house diploma. However, students wishing to take the Postgraduate Diploma will be registered with Middlesex University, and can either gain the Diploma as an exit award from the MSc programme, or gain it as a standalone award. Students have to submit a number of written assignments for formal marking during the course.

British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists accreditation: Contact hours accrued on The Berne Institute’s Diploma course can

normally be counted toward the number of hours’ training required by BACP.

The Diplomas provide a balance of theory, skills training, personal development and practical experience and are designed to integrate all these elements to provide a firm basis for development as a TA professional. The Diploma courses build understanding of the interpersonal interactions, intrapsychic processes, personality structure, feeling, thinking and behaviour, providing a means to understand people and organisations in depth in the family system or other social matrices

To be eligible for entry to the Diploma course, you must normally have completed the official TA101 course or passed the TA 101 open-book examination, and have completed at least 120 hours of recognised advanced TA training.

No previous academic qualification is required for entry to the Diploma course. However, we would advise you that the training is demanding in terms of both intellectual activity and skills development. Success in the course requires a high degree of motivation and an openness to self-exploration and personal change. You therefore need to have the intellectual and personal resources to deal successfully with such demands. This will be assessed at the intake interview in each individual case. If you wish to take the validated Postgraduate Diploma, you must have a first degree or degree-equivalent qualification on entry to the course.