12 monthsProgramme duration
19 Aug, 2026Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Psychology
Degree
Other
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Course summary
How can the right support help someone take control of anxiety or depression? And how can brief, evidence-based psychological interventions make a meaningful difference to everyday life?
If you want to train as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), PGCert Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is for you.
At Southampton, you’ll learn how to assess and support adults experiencing common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. You’ll develop the skills to deliver low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) interventions that help people understand their difficulties, build coping strategies and manage their symptoms more effectively.
Your learning is closely connected to clinical practice. Alongside your university study, you’ll work in an approved NHS Talking Therapies service, giving you opportunities to apply theory with patients and develop your competence in a real healthcare setting.
You’ll learn how to carry out patient-centred assessments, identify the difficulties someone wants to change and support them through evidence-based low intensity treatments. You’ll also develop the skills to manage a clinical caseload, make informed decisions through supervision and work safely within professional and ethical standards.
Inclusive practice runs throughout the programme. You’ll explore how to work from a values base that promotes recovery, recognises individual circumstances and respects the diversity of the communities you support.
The course follows the national curriculum for PWP training and is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Develop the practical skills, professional judgement and confidence to support people towards better mental health.
Key features of this course
**Learn to assess what matters to each person.** Develop patient-centred assessment skills that help people identify their main difficulties, priorities and the changes they want to make.
**Turn CBT principles into practical support.** Learn how to deliver evidence-based low intensity interventions for common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression.
**Learn while working with patients.** Combine university teaching with clinical work in an approved NHS Talking Therapies service, putting new knowledge and skills into practice as you develop.
**Build confidence managing a caseload.** Develop the organisational and clinical decision-making skills needed to work effectively within a low intensity CBT service.
**Practise inclusively and ethically.** Learn to work from a values base that promotes recovery, respects diversity and supports safe, professional practice.
**Use supervision to keep developing.** Learn how to use clinical supervision to reflect on your work, strengthen your skills and support effective decision-making.
Your future career
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners help people with common mental health problems access practical, evidence-based support.
By successfully completing the programme and demonstrating the required clinical competence, you’ll be prepared to work as a qualified PWP in an NHS Talking Therapies or other low intensity CBT service.
You’ll develop practical skills in patient assessment, low intensity psychological interventions, caseload management and clinical decision-making, alongside communication, reflective practice and professional judgement.
Your experience of combining academic learning with supervised clinical practice will help you understand how evidence-based psychological approaches work in real healthcare settings.
Wherever your career develops from there, you’ll leave Southampton equipped to support people with anxiety and depression to understand their difficulties, build coping strategies and take an active role in their recovery.
Student support
You’ll learn through lectures, skills training workshops, clinical simulations, group discussions and directed study.
You’ll also receive clinical supervision through your trainee PWP role, helping you reflect on your practice and continue developing your professional skills.
The University will assign you a personal academic tutor, and you’ll also have access to a senior tutor.
Further information
This is a 1-year, part-time PGCert based at Highfield Campus.
The programme consists of 3 compulsory modules covering:
* engagement and assessment of people with common mental health problems * evidence-based low intensity CBT treatments for common mental health disorders * values, diversity and context
Assessment includes a clinical assessment session, therapy recording, clinical case presentation, reflective essay and an assessment of practice document.
Your clinical supervisor will provide a final statement confirming whether you have demonstrated competence to practise as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
Applicants normally need a 2:2 degree in a clinical, health or science subject.
You must have secured a trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner role in an NHS Talking Therapies service in Hampshire before enrolling on the course.
How can the right support help someone take control of anxiety or depression? And how can brief, evidence-based psychological interventions make a meaningful difference to everyday life?
If you want to train as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), PGCert Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is for you.
At Southampton, you’ll learn how to assess and support adults experiencing common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. You’ll develop the skills to deliver low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) interventions that help people understand their difficulties, build coping strategies and manage their symptoms more effectively.
Your learning is closely connected to clinical practice. Alongside your university study, you’ll work in an approved NHS Talking Therapies service, giving you opportunities to apply theory with patients and develop your competence in a real healthcare setting.
You’ll learn how to carry out patient-centred assessments, identify the difficulties someone wants to change and support them through evidence-based low intensity treatments. You’ll also develop the skills to manage a clinical caseload, make informed decisions through supervision and work safely within professional and ethical standards.
Inclusive practice runs throughout the programme. You’ll explore how to work from a values base that promotes recovery, recognises individual circumstances and respects the diversity of the communities you support.
The course follows the national curriculum for PWP training and is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Develop the practical skills, professional judgement and confidence to support people towards better mental health.
Key features of this course
**Learn to assess what matters to each person.** Develop patient-centred assessment skills that help people identify their main difficulties, priorities and the changes they want to make.
**Turn CBT principles into practical support.** Learn how to deliver evidence-based low intensity interventions for common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression.
**Learn while working with patients.** Combine university teaching with clinical work in an approved NHS Talking Therapies service, putting new knowledge and skills into practice as you develop.
**Build confidence managing a caseload.** Develop the organisational and clinical decision-making skills needed to work effectively within a low intensity CBT service.
**Practise inclusively and ethically.** Learn to work from a values base that promotes recovery, respects diversity and supports safe, professional practice.
**Use supervision to keep developing.** Learn how to use clinical supervision to reflect on your work, strengthen your skills and support effective decision-making.
Your future career
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners help people with common mental health problems access practical, evidence-based support.
By successfully completing the programme and demonstrating the required clinical competence, you’ll be prepared to work as a qualified PWP in an NHS Talking Therapies or other low intensity CBT service.
You’ll develop practical skills in patient assessment, low intensity psychological interventions, caseload management and clinical decision-making, alongside communication, reflective practice and professional judgement.
Your experience of combining academic learning with supervised clinical practice will help you understand how evidence-based psychological approaches work in real healthcare settings.
Wherever your career develops from there, you’ll leave Southampton equipped to support people with anxiety and depression to understand their difficulties, build coping strategies and take an active role in their recovery.
Student support
You’ll learn through lectures, skills training workshops, clinical simulations, group discussions and directed study.
You’ll also receive clinical supervision through your trainee PWP role, helping you reflect on your practice and continue developing your professional skills.
The University will assign you a personal academic tutor, and you’ll also have access to a senior tutor.
Further information
This is a 1-year, part-time PGCert based at Highfield Campus.
The programme consists of 3 compulsory modules covering:
* engagement and assessment of people with common mental health problems * evidence-based low intensity CBT treatments for common mental health disorders * values, diversity and context
Assessment includes a clinical assessment session, therapy recording, clinical case presentation, reflective essay and an assessment of practice document.
Your clinical supervisor will provide a final statement confirming whether you have demonstrated competence to practise as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
Applicants normally need a 2:2 degree in a clinical, health or science subject.
You must have secured a trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner role in an NHS Talking Therapies service in Hampshire before enrolling on the course.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Psychology
Degree
Other
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Course summary
How can the right support help someone take control of anxiety or depression? And how can brief, evidence-based psychological interventions make a meaningful difference to everyday life?
If you want to train as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), PGCert Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is for you.
At Southampton, you’ll learn how to assess and support adults experiencing common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. You’ll develop the skills to deliver low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) interventions that help people understand their difficulties, build coping strategies and manage their symptoms more effectively.
Your learning is closely connected to clinical practice. Alongside your university study, you’ll work in an approved NHS Talking Therapies service, giving you opportunities to apply theory with patients and develop your competence in a real healthcare setting.
You’ll learn how to carry out patient-centred assessments, identify the difficulties someone wants to change and support them through evidence-based low intensity treatments. You’ll also develop the skills to manage a clinical caseload, make informed decisions through supervision and work safely within professional and ethical standards.
Inclusive practice runs throughout the programme. You’ll explore how to work from a values base that promotes recovery, recognises individual circumstances and respects the diversity of the communities you support.
The course follows the national curriculum for PWP training and is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Develop the practical skills, professional judgement and confidence to support people towards better mental health.
Key features of this course
**Learn to assess what matters to each person.** Develop patient-centred assessment skills that help people identify their main difficulties, priorities and the changes they want to make.
**Turn CBT principles into practical support.** Learn how to deliver evidence-based low intensity interventions for common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression.
**Learn while working with patients.** Combine university teaching with clinical work in an approved NHS Talking Therapies service, putting new knowledge and skills into practice as you develop.
**Build confidence managing a caseload.** Develop the organisational and clinical decision-making skills needed to work effectively within a low intensity CBT service.
**Practise inclusively and ethically.** Learn to work from a values base that promotes recovery, respects diversity and supports safe, professional practice.
**Use supervision to keep developing.** Learn how to use clinical supervision to reflect on your work, strengthen your skills and support effective decision-making.
Your future career
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners help people with common mental health problems access practical, evidence-based support.
By successfully completing the programme and demonstrating the required clinical competence, you’ll be prepared to work as a qualified PWP in an NHS Talking Therapies or other low intensity CBT service.
You’ll develop practical skills in patient assessment, low intensity psychological interventions, caseload management and clinical decision-making, alongside communication, reflective practice and professional judgement.
Your experience of combining academic learning with supervised clinical practice will help you understand how evidence-based psychological approaches work in real healthcare settings.
Wherever your career develops from there, you’ll leave Southampton equipped to support people with anxiety and depression to understand their difficulties, build coping strategies and take an active role in their recovery.
Student support
You’ll learn through lectures, skills training workshops, clinical simulations, group discussions and directed study.
You’ll also receive clinical supervision through your trainee PWP role, helping you reflect on your practice and continue developing your professional skills.
The University will assign you a personal academic tutor, and you’ll also have access to a senior tutor.
Further information
This is a 1-year, part-time PGCert based at Highfield Campus.
The programme consists of 3 compulsory modules covering:
* engagement and assessment of people with common mental health problems * evidence-based low intensity CBT treatments for common mental health disorders * values, diversity and context
Assessment includes a clinical assessment session, therapy recording, clinical case presentation, reflective essay and an assessment of practice document.
Your clinical supervisor will provide a final statement confirming whether you have demonstrated competence to practise as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
Applicants normally need a 2:2 degree in a clinical, health or science subject.
You must have secured a trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner role in an NHS Talking Therapies service in Hampshire before enrolling on the course.
How can the right support help someone take control of anxiety or depression? And how can brief, evidence-based psychological interventions make a meaningful difference to everyday life?
If you want to train as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), PGCert Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is for you.
At Southampton, you’ll learn how to assess and support adults experiencing common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. You’ll develop the skills to deliver low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) interventions that help people understand their difficulties, build coping strategies and manage their symptoms more effectively.
Your learning is closely connected to clinical practice. Alongside your university study, you’ll work in an approved NHS Talking Therapies service, giving you opportunities to apply theory with patients and develop your competence in a real healthcare setting.
You’ll learn how to carry out patient-centred assessments, identify the difficulties someone wants to change and support them through evidence-based low intensity treatments. You’ll also develop the skills to manage a clinical caseload, make informed decisions through supervision and work safely within professional and ethical standards.
Inclusive practice runs throughout the programme. You’ll explore how to work from a values base that promotes recovery, recognises individual circumstances and respects the diversity of the communities you support.
The course follows the national curriculum for PWP training and is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Develop the practical skills, professional judgement and confidence to support people towards better mental health.
Key features of this course
**Learn to assess what matters to each person.** Develop patient-centred assessment skills that help people identify their main difficulties, priorities and the changes they want to make.
**Turn CBT principles into practical support.** Learn how to deliver evidence-based low intensity interventions for common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression.
**Learn while working with patients.** Combine university teaching with clinical work in an approved NHS Talking Therapies service, putting new knowledge and skills into practice as you develop.
**Build confidence managing a caseload.** Develop the organisational and clinical decision-making skills needed to work effectively within a low intensity CBT service.
**Practise inclusively and ethically.** Learn to work from a values base that promotes recovery, respects diversity and supports safe, professional practice.
**Use supervision to keep developing.** Learn how to use clinical supervision to reflect on your work, strengthen your skills and support effective decision-making.
Your future career
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners help people with common mental health problems access practical, evidence-based support.
By successfully completing the programme and demonstrating the required clinical competence, you’ll be prepared to work as a qualified PWP in an NHS Talking Therapies or other low intensity CBT service.
You’ll develop practical skills in patient assessment, low intensity psychological interventions, caseload management and clinical decision-making, alongside communication, reflective practice and professional judgement.
Your experience of combining academic learning with supervised clinical practice will help you understand how evidence-based psychological approaches work in real healthcare settings.
Wherever your career develops from there, you’ll leave Southampton equipped to support people with anxiety and depression to understand their difficulties, build coping strategies and take an active role in their recovery.
Student support
You’ll learn through lectures, skills training workshops, clinical simulations, group discussions and directed study.
You’ll also receive clinical supervision through your trainee PWP role, helping you reflect on your practice and continue developing your professional skills.
The University will assign you a personal academic tutor, and you’ll also have access to a senior tutor.
Further information
This is a 1-year, part-time PGCert based at Highfield Campus.
The programme consists of 3 compulsory modules covering:
* engagement and assessment of people with common mental health problems * evidence-based low intensity CBT treatments for common mental health disorders * values, diversity and context
Assessment includes a clinical assessment session, therapy recording, clinical case presentation, reflective essay and an assessment of practice document.
Your clinical supervisor will provide a final statement confirming whether you have demonstrated competence to practise as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
Applicants normally need a 2:2 degree in a clinical, health or science subject.
You must have secured a trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner role in an NHS Talking Therapies service in Hampshire before enrolling on the course.
Admission Requirements
67+
92+
6.5+
120+
You’ll need a 2: 2 Hons degree in a clinical, health or science subject.
You should have secured recruitment into a trainee PWP post in an IAPT service, or meet the requirements for an honorary contract with an IAPT service.
You should have secured recruitment into a trainee PWP post in an IAPT service, or meet the requirements for an honorary contract with an IAPT service.
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