Independent Counselling
Training
info@independentcounsellingtraining.org
07795106498
From January 2027 we will be offering a
Diploma in Group Facilitation
(Pending CPCAB accreditation)
Please get in touch if you'd like to find out more about any of our courses.
Lorna Marchant and Cathy McMorrow are the core tutors on the level 5 and level 6 courses with support from Hope Lambert and Tricia King in tutoring, moderation and verification.
Certificate in Therapeutic Supervision
(L6 CPCAB accredited)
The Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision (TCSU-L6) leads to a nationally
recognised qualification.
In particular, it is designed for counsellors who wish to extend their professional practice; thereby enabling them to incorporate supervision into their range of services.
Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
(L5 CPCAB Accredited)
The level 5 Diploma is designed for qualified counsellors who want to deepen their practice, expand their professional opportunities,
and confidently step into independent work.
In addition this nationally recognised qualification builds on your initial counselling qualification and equips you with the advanced skills,
knowledge, and competencies required to move into SCoPED column B. It entitles you to become an individually accredited member of BACP.
Our level 5 and 6 courses are Ofqual regulated. This register confirms that the qualification meets set standards for content, assessment and quality and that an approved awarding organisation issues it.
Read what CPCAB said about our training (January 2026)
'Lorna and Cathy offer a good mix of guided and autonomous learning, and
candidate's understanding and confidence was growing as they studied They had
been successful in developing a warm learning environment and this had been
achieved by frequent break- out groups in which students had the opportunity to mix with each other.'
'Candidates appreciated the detail of feedback offered in the assessments by the tutors and their readiness to offer support and guidance when needed.'
CPCAB EV Report January 2026
'ICT is a very friendly neurodivergent centre'
As a neurodivergent student, my experience of counselling training, up until I approached ICT, was rough. With struggles to find the right support for my additional needs, I was beginning to wonder if my ambitions to be a counsellor were misplaced. The training itself (SEG Awards, Level 4 counselling diploma) was thoroughly enjoyable. The tutors would often bring up issues we didn't expect, or the discussion would go off at some tangent and they just let it. Anyone who has trained in a more conventional setting might find it disquieting, but I saw it for what it was - we were being trained not just to be able to list the 19 Propositions of Carl Rogers, or give an academic description of Attachment Theory, but to think and explore for ourselves. The training gave me the confidence to realise I didn't need to know everything, but if I needed to know it, I knew how to find out. Even now, all qualified, our group frequently consult one another, refer to one another, ask for recommendations of books etc. As a neurodivergent person who has never felt part of groups, never accepted, it is a revelation. I hugely value my colleagues, many of whom I met via ICT. I now run a successful private practice, specialising in counselling for neurodivergent people (autism & ADHD principally). I feel the training with ICT prepared me extremely well for this challenge and I was able to set up my PP with confidence. I particularly appreciate the way the (integrative) ICT course encouraged all of us to develop our own styles, which has freed me to figure out what works, in a relatively new field. I would thoroughly recommend ICT.
'Lorna is very experienced and the training was experiential and safely contained. We also had fun as well as it being personally challenging in the right way. I felt cared for and valued on the course I'm truly glad I trained at ICT.'
What our students are saying.......
'I have learnt so much from my time with ICT and have always left feeling really confident in my skills and ability post qualification.'
'it was both informative and enjoyable (not something I'm used to saying after several hours on zoom)
(March 2026)