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Advanced Diploma in Couples Therapy
February 2023 to December 2023 – London – 20 days
We are now accepting applications for our 2023 intake.
We run a number of dedicated seminars on sex, sexuality, psychosexual therapy and couples therapy, including relationship enhancement. We endorse and collaborate with the London Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy, a two year training accredited by COSRT, NCP and Middlesex University.
For a direct link to the website of the London Diploma click here.
Psychotherapy with couples requires specific skills rather than those applicable to general psychotherapy work. This course aims to build on existing psychotherapy and counselling skills and to widen these to include systemic and psychosexual skills. We support individual students in building on, enhancing and honing their practice when working with couples. Our intention is to enable participants to work with complex and multi-faceted presentations at a deep level incorporating a variety of psychotherapeutic models within the couple framework.
This Diploma is a route to NCS (National Counselling Society) training accreditation once the London Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy (provided by LDPRT) has been successfully completed.
TBC: February 2023 to December 2023. Times: 10.00 – 16.30 hrs. 10 weekends, 20 days in total.
Weekend 1: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February 2023
Weekend 2: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March 2023
Weekend 3: Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 April 2023
Weekend 4: Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May 2023
Weekend 5: Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June 2023
Weekend 6: Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July 2023
Weekend 7: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September 2023
Weekend 8: Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023
Weekend 9: Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 November 2023
Weekend 10: Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 December 2023
£3250.00 for the year (incl 20% VAT). We require a deposit of £250 to secure your place followed by 10 monthly instalments of £300. Applicants who wish to pay for the year a one off payment, are offered a 2.5% reduction in fees.
Testimonials 2020/21
“This course is a comprehensive training in couples work, with highly knowledgeable and skilled trainers, that gives counsellors an excellent grounding in working with couples.” 2020/2021
“Studying with NAOS is one of the best decisions I ever made. You know a course is good when you feel genuinely sad that it is over.” 2020/2021
“I am so pleased that I chose to do the Advanced diploma in Couples Therapy with NAOS. You offer a very good couples training and you are, without question, at the top of your game. Your teaching team brings a wide and deep knowledge and experience which overall creates a very colourful and rich tapestry of learning. I feel that the course has been a positive experience, a privilege to hear and learn from people who are passionate about their work.” 2020
“This was a lively interactive course that deepened and enriched my own experiences as well as enhancing my practice in the therapy room. The facilitators are highly experienced, thoughtful and challenging. The peer group was international, eclectic and enlightening. I had a very special experience and learned a lot. I would thoroughly recommend the course.” 2019/2020
“This course is a must for any couple therapist, it makes you grow personally and professionally, gives you great tools to work with, encourages your creativity, and offers you the most contemporary thinking on therapy.” 2019/2020
Testimonials 2019
“Thank you for this past year but also the past three years. I have had the most amazing experience with you and the entire vital spirit that NAOS has been to me.” Student 2019
“The experiences, the people, the teaching and enlightenment, the place, the insides and the outsides, everything has contributed to profound changes within in me other personally and in my work. Thank you really doesn’t feel a significant enough phrase to express the gratitude I feel.” Student 2019
“I have really enjoyed training with your over the last 3 years. They have been great trainings and wise investments.” Student 2019
“Bernd is warm, irreverent, brave, experienced, shaped by grit, free.” Student 2019
“The year on this course has given me so much, mostly time with incredible thinkers who, as a group of professionals both trainers and attendees, have contributed to broadening my mind and my approach to the way I am able to work with clients. NAOS is a centre of excellence and brings together excellent people to learn and grow with. Thank you.” Student 2019
“I thoroughly enjoyed the Naos learning experience and the insights into couples work I gained on the Diploma. I have used what I have learned in my day to day practice and got the chance to meet some really fantastic, skilled people that I would otherwise not have met. The teaching staff form a well-integrated network of clinicians who seem to have worked together and formed an approach to the work that I was very interested to learn about.” Student 2019
Testimonials 2017
“Another brilliant day facilitated by Bernd. Experiential work hugely beneficial and insightful. Thank you!” Student 2017
“The course has been terribly enriching and thought provoking. I left feeling much better equipped to think about and work with couples. I was also able to integrate the knowledge and use it into my individual work. I recommend this course wholeheartedly.” Dr Yasmine Haimovici, 2016
“Each of the course modules gave me unique insights which is very useful in my work. I learnt the theory but also how to use them practically in therapy. It had enhanced my level of working with couples.” Rima Hawkins, 2016
“The course gave me a great foundation from which to understand the dynamics between couples and tools to assist them. I am much more confident about tackling some of the more complex situations that couples bring to the consultant room” RG, 2016
“I highly recommend the Advanced Diploma Course for anyone currently working with couples or anyone who is interested in working with couple relationships. The course content was informative and challenging, stimulating and insightful for the couple process and relationship developments. The course tutors offered their experience and knowledge to inform theory and bring alive practice, which I valued as a real learning resource. I felt supported and encouraged by the structure of the course, the delivery of the material plus discussion and role play that transformed theory and learning into practice.
I valued and enjoyed my time with you and continue to work with couples in a more confident and, I hope, more competent way than I did before completing the course.” J.M. 2016
“It’s been a pleasure to study with you and get to know you over the year. Many thanks for an enriching experience and allowing me to learn more about myself.” David Piner, 2014
“I was delighted to be a part of it.” Dominic Davies, 2014
“I found this to be an exciting and diverse training, giving me many more skills to integrate into my work with couples.” Priya, 2014
“It was a lovely ending, very graceful, kind and elegant…” Carolyn Cowan, 2014
“Thanks for the ending. I certainly hope it’s the start of some beginnings in terms of keeping in touch. I’d love to catch up and see how things are going with everyone.” Janine, 2014
Bernd C. Leygraf and David Piner (Course Directors), Ana Rhodes, Serge Nicholson, Prof Desa Markovic, Effie Soultani, Marcus Sorensen, Jaap Westerbos, Keeley Mardon, Dr. Maha Nasrallah-Babenko
At NAOS premises, 3 Montpelier Avenue, Ealing – London W5 2XP
The Curriculum includes
Entry requirements
Counsellors, psychotherapists or related professions with a minimum of 2 years training.
Assessment
Dates (TBC)
February 2023 to December 2023. Times: 10.00 – 16.30 hrs. 10 weekends, 20 days in total.
Weekend 1: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February 2023
Weekend 2: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March 2023
Weekend 3: Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 April 2023
Weekend 4: Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May 2023
Weekend 5: Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June 2023
Weekend 6: Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July 2023
Weekend 7: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September 2023
Weekend 8: Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023
Weekend 9: Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 November 2023
Weekend 10: Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 December 2023
Accreditation
Students may undertake this training in part fulfilment of the Accredited Register (Professional Standards Board), as a pathway into UKCP registration or BACP accreditation.
The course is accredited with NCS and NCP and faculty members are all accredited with national accrediting bodies (AHPP, NCP, NCS, BACP, UKCP, COSRT)
Fees
£3250.00 for the year (incl 20% VAT). We require a deposit of £250 to secure your place followed by 10 monthly instalments of £300. Applicants who wish to pay for the year a one off payment, are offered a 2.5% reduction in fees.
Enquiries and Application
If you require more information, please fill in an application form (click here). We will contact you as soon as possible.
All applicants are required to complete the application form. This will be followed by a telephone interview. If offered a place, a course contract will have to be completed and an initial non-refundable deposit of £100 to secure a place will be required.
