Student Life
What's it like being a student at Matrix?
What's it like being a student at Matrix?
A BSc is a recognised qualification. In addition, our course leads to UKCP registration as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (once you have completed 450 clinical hours). This registration is a benchmark standard for counsellors in the UK.
Our course is designed to create competent Integrative Counsellors who are ready to work in the counselling field and develop a career in counselling. Examples of possible employment are: working in charitable organizations, GP surgeries, university student support and private practice.
If you would like to continue your academic learning, you can progress to a postgraduate qualification such as a Master’s degree in Psychotherapy.
As a small college, we do not have a Student’s Union. We take feedback from our students after every training weekend and more formally at the Programme Voice Group meeting twice a year. Each training group appoints two student reps who represent the group’s views to the Programme Voice Group. We value student feedback enormously and have made many changes over the years in response to it.
We are not a campus based Higher Education Institute. We are based in Wymondham and students visit the Matrix building each day. The teaching is from 9.30 am – 5.15 pm each day. We do not have accommodation as this is not required by students.
We generally take students from their late twenties to their seventies. We find that students do well if they have had a variety of life experience prior to undertaking the course.