Training

Progress your Counselling Career with RAFT

We know how important quality training programmes are, and we want to help you get the best out of your counselling career.

We offer training courses, delivered by experts and available online, for those looking to progress from their Level 4 qualification.

RAFT offer limited placements to students enrolled on specific courses at Level 5 and above including psychosexual counselling, children and young people’s

Current Courses

RAFTLevel 5 Post-QualificationCertificate in Relationship Counselling

Dates: Module 1: 17th - 19th April 2026 |  Module 2:  10th -12th July 2026 | Module: 9th -11th  October 2026 | Module 4: 15th -17th January 2027 | Module 5: 16th, 17th  April 2027 
Location: Online
Course fee: £2,300

Course overview:
Upskill and gain a one‑year online Level 5 certificate in relationship counselling, featuring an introduction to family therapy, delivered online by former Relate Institute trainer, Cate Campbell.  
Join RAFT online for 5 modules spread across 14 teaching sessions covering the essentials of successful relationship counselling. This course explores systemic concepts and cultural considerations in relationship counselling, from the initiation of relationships to intimacy and sex and relationship breakdown. This training also includes an introduction to working with families, with a focus on the changing landscape of families and learning to listen to the child’s voice in the family setting. 

Course highlights

  • Introduction to relationship counselling, systemic interventions, power and abuse, considering culture, identity, intersectionality and difference and the solution focused approach. 

  • Looking at “couple fit” and adult attachment, conflict, trauma, triggers, neurodivergence and affairs. Application of drama triangle, PAC and transactional analysis. 

  • Understand the challenges of modern dating at different points in the life cycle. Dating, commitment and New Relationship Energy. Talking about intimacy and sex, pursuer: distancer relationships, sexualities and relationship breakdown. Looking at split  agendas, divorce and separation. 

  • Introduction to family counselling and the therapeutic alliance, listening to the child’s voice in the family, looking at family breakdowns and the child’s needs, patriarchy, incels and toxic masculinity. 

  • Therapeutic endings, consolidation of course learning and participants’ presentations 
    The course will be assessed using reflexive journals, role play, case study, presentation, family essay and portfolio. 

  • Qualified counsellors looking to develop their knowledge to deliver relationship and family counselling and prospective relationship counsellors. You must be a registered member of a professional body e.g. BACP, NCPS and hold a Level 4 Diploma (or higher) in individual adult counselling

  • High-quality, accessible training: Learn from the comfort of your own home and complete your training around your existing work schedule.
    Learn from an expert tutor: formerly a Relate Institute qualified trainer.
    High-quality learning modules: We are a member of the Relationships England and Wales Network.
    Affordable courses: At RAFT, we believe counselling shouldn't have barriers, so we actively work to bridge the affordability gap for our clients and those wishing to study with us.

  • You’ll familiarise yourself with systemic concepts and systemic questioning, family scripts, genograms, recognise and respond to power imbalances, working with neurodivergence, dynamic mapping, recognise and work with pursuer: distancer relationships, PLISSIT, building and working with families, potential stressors in family lifecycles, the child’s voice in the family setting, working with patriarchy, incels and toxic masculinity.

For details of our upcoming training courses, contact us.

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Equal Opportunities

We operate fully within an equal opportunities policy and promote anti-discriminatory practice. We see any family, individual or couple who would like to improve a relationship or who would like to part amicably or to maintain a functioning relationship as parents even if they are no longer partners.
Our definition of 'family' is a group of related, married, co-habiting or other people who call themselves such.