About

If you are passionate about helping people and want to make a positive difference in the lives of others, this is the course for you.

The Master of Counselling at Monash provides a professional qualification and offers a combination of theory and professional experience, providing you with the knowledge and skills to begin a rewarding career as a counsellor.

The course is suited to people from a variety of professions, such as human resources, health, social welfare and education. It is taught by leading academics with extensive experience working as counsellors and psychologists.

You'll acquire specialised knowledge and skills in professional counselling practice, which you will be able to apply to diverse settings and contexts.

You will engage with highly qualified and dedicated teaching staff who will use their extensive experience working as professional counsellors or psychologists to illustrate theoretical material and who will help you apply this to real-world counselling practice in a variety of settings.

You will develop expert knowledge about counselling practice with individuals, couples, families and groups, and will acquire skills and expertise in contemporary evidence-based counselling approaches in order to conduct assessments and interventions with diverse populations.

You will also master a range of professional skills and develop your own counselling style through 200 hours of professional experience, which includes 100 'contact' hours (e.g. face-to-face, couple, family and group counselling) and 100 'non-contact' hours (e.g. observation, case notes, meetings, administration).

The Counselling Placement Team source many placements and communicate these opportunities to students. Please note most placement providers will require you to submit an application and/or attend an interview to secure the placement. If you are located interstate, overseas or rurally you will be required to source your own placements, under the guidance of the Counselling Placement Team.

Graduates work in a variety of fields, including careers counselling, education, child and family services, health policy, family counselling, health-services management and rehabilitation counselling.

This course is accredited in Australia by the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Minimum Entry Requirements (International students)

Qualifications

Entry level 1: 96 points to complete
Duration: 2 years full-time, 4 years part-time

An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) with at least a high credit (65%) average.

Entry level 2: 72 points to complete
Duration: 1.5 years full-time, 3 years part-time

An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) with at least a high credit (65%) average and a minimum of two years of full time equivalent relevant professional experience

Or

An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) in a related discipline including social work, psychology or counselling with at least a high credit (65%) average

Or

A four-year Australian bachelor honours degree or an Australian graduate certificate or an Australian graduate diploma (or equivalent) with at least a high credit (65%) average

Or

An Australian master's degree (or equivalent) with at least a high credit (65%) average.

Entry level 3: 48 points to complete
Duration: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) in a related discipline including social work, psychology or counselling with at least a high credit (65%) average and a minimum of two years of full time equivalent relevant professional experience

Or

A four-year Australian bachelor honours degree or an Australian graduate certificate or an Australian graduate diploma (or equivalent) with at least a high credit (65%) average and a minimum of two years of full time equivalent relevant professional experience

Or

A four-year Australian bachelor honours degree or an Australian graduate certificate or an Australian graduate diploma (or equivalent) in a related discipline including social work, psychology or counselling with at least a high credit (65%) average

Or

An Australian master's degree (or equivalent) with at least a high credit (65%) average and a minimum of two years of full time equivalent relevant professional experience

Or

An Australian master's degree (or equivalent) in a related discipline including social work, psychology or counselling with at least a high credit (65%) average.

English entry requirements

Level D

IELTS (Academic): 7.0 Overall score, with minimum band scores: Listening 7.0, Reading 7.0, Writing 7.0 and Speaking 7.0

Pearson Test of English (Academic): 65 Overall score, with minimum scores: Listening 65, Reading 65, Speaking 65 and Writing 65

TOEFL Internet-based test: 98 Overall score, with minimum scores: Reading 24, Listening 24, Speaking 23 and Writing 27

Equivalent approved English test

University entrance requirements

Minimum entrance requirements for admission to Monash University Australia.

Extra Requirements

On-campus study requirement for online Clayton students

The unit, EDF5063 Contemporary counselling approaches, requires compulsory attendance at an intensive school on the Clayton campus. See the unit handbook entry for more information.

Professional experience

This course requires you to complete 200 hours of professional experience. This includes a minimum of 100 hours client contact in which you will apply and develop your counselling skills and 100 non-client hours. While completing these mandatory hours, you will receive 25 hours of supervision from experienced practitioners.

Before participating in professional experience in any setting, you must:

meet specific security clearances (eg. Working With Children Check) that apply in the state/territory/country where the professional experience is being undertaken
complete professional experience orientation provided by the faculty.
The counselling placement team source many placements and will communicate these opportunities to you. Please note that most placement providers will require you to apply and/or attend an interview to secure the placement. You may have the opportunity to self-source placements. If you are located interstate, overseas or rurally, you are particularly encouraged to do this, under the guidance of the counselling placement team.

For advice on professional experience intervention, support, and unsatisfactory progress, refer to the Professional experience intervention and support policy.

Professional experience expenses

You are responsible for all uniform, equipment, travel, accommodation and any other expenses incurred during professional experience and will be notified regarding purchase arrangements upon commencement.

Inherent requirements

To complete your degree, you will need to demonstrate that you have the abilities, knowledge, and skills to achieve specific core learning outcomes, these are called inherent requirements.

Find out more about inherent requirements for this course.

Master of Counselling

English Requirements

PTEMin 65
IELTSMin 7
TOEFLMin 98

English Program Requirements

overall score for IELTS (Academic), with minimum scores: Listening 7.0, Reading 7.0, Writing 7.0 and Speaking 7.0

Fee Information

Tuition Fee

30,680 / year(s)