The Counselling for Intimacy in Relationships program is designed to enable students to become familiar with a range of contemporary models of counselling. Students will be trained to a level of competence to enable them to provide support for clients dealing with intimacy issues within a relationship. Students will gain an understanding of how Psychopathology & Sexual Identity may impact intimacy in a relationship. The course will help familiarize students with listening and assertiveness skills, while also introducing different approaches to conflict resolution. Students will learn specific communication skills essential to adopting healthy relationship patterns and gain an understanding of how to recognize and replace dysfunctional and distancing behaviours with healthy behavioural patterns.

All objectives are observable and measurable through a combination of skills practicum with grading, assignment completion with grading and examination grading.