Torrens University Australia
Master of Counselling
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 18 Months
Strengthens your counselling expertise and opens doors to career growth within a range of professional environments.
Course overview
The Master of Counselling is a postgraduate qualification designed to enhance your counselling expertise and advance your professional trajectory. Delivered online, the course delves into advanced counselling theories and practices while offering valuable hands-on experience through supervised work placements.
This accredited program equips you to deliver essential counselling services and foster effective interpersonal communication across a wide range of business, community, education and wellbeing settings. As the highest level of counselling training available in Australia, it offers a holistic learning environment where you'll develop practical skills and build confidence as a practitioner.
Key facts
What you will study
Year 1: These eight core subjects must be completed.
- Advanced Therapeutic Communication
- Theoretical Approaches to Counselling
- Life Stages and Development
- Self Care & Developing Resilience
- Mental Health
- Digital Counselling
- Clinical Practice & Supervision
- Advanced Counselling Skills
Year 2: These three core subjects must be completed. Additionally, you're required to select one elective.
- Group Leadership
- Trauma Informed Practice
- Working with Risk Groups and Suicidality
Electives: Choose one specified or unspecified research elective in year two below.
- Positive Aging
- Grief and Loss
- Coaching and Positive Psychology
- Social and Emotional Well-being in Australian Indigenous Populations
- Critical Literature Review (RES611)
- Critical Literature Review (HEP601)
- Empowerment and Advocacy
Entry requirements
Before you begin your application to study as a domestic student, check that you meet the requirements listed below.
- AQF Level 7 (Bachelor's degree) or above in a relevant discipline.
- A Bachelor's degree and complete the Torrens Work Life entry form, demonstrating your interest in and suitability to gain entry to the course. Students who do not have a prior degree in a related field must successfully complete the Graduate Certificate prior to enrolling in the Graduate Diploma, Master's or Advanced Master's. This is a professional accreditation requirement.
Recognition of Prior Learning
If you have already completed a qualification or gained skills through life or work experience, you may be able to credit this against your degree. Check information about Recognition of Prior Learning and Course Credit transfer. Contact the university for more information.
Outcomes
The Master of Counselling has been designed to prepare you for employment in roles that require counselling and communication skills or to progress your career in the professional domain of counselling and case management.
Career outcomes
- Counsellor
- Case Manager
- Rehabilitation Counsellor
- Addiction Counsellor
Fees and FEE-HELP
Indicative subject price in 2025: $2,413 (domestic full-fee paying place)
Estimated total price in 2025: $28,956 (domestic full-fee paying place)
Fees are calculated based on a full-time study load of 12 subjects.
A student’s fee may vary depending on:
- The number of subjects studied per term.
- The choice of major or specialisation.
- Choice of subjects.
- Credit from previous study or work experience.
- Eligibility for government-funded loans.
You may also need to pay the student services and amenities fee.
Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students.
