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Wishing all of our students, staff and volunteers a wonderful Christmas and a New Year filled with blessings!

The LRCCS Office will be closed from Monday 29th December 2008 to Friday 2nd January 2009.

From Monday 5th January 2009 to Friday 16th January 2009 the office will be manned by a skeleton staff from 9 am to 12 pm Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. We will be returning to full staffing levels on Monday 19th January 2009.

Welcome to the Lois Reid College of Counselling Studies. 

We are a distance education provider based in the New England and North-West areas of NSW, Australia with an aim to train rural people in counselling for rural communities.

LRCCS offers some unique features in its approach to counselling.  Some of these include:

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 an exploration of each student's personal beliefs, values, philosophy and ethics;

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the influence personal world view has on counselling including the effects of gender, race, beliefs, geographical location, age, vocation, experiences, etc;

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 an holistic approach to counselling;

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 an emotion inclusive focus;

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 an emphasis on professional supervision at all levels of practice;

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 supervised practical training with at least 150 hours face to face participation;

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at least 80% of training is focussed on the skills of relationship counselling

These features are melded with topics taught in other courses such as: microskills; basic counselling skills; various strategies; models of counselling; a cognitive-behaviour interaction with affect; communication; introduction to psychology; individual, couple and family counselling; specific psychological disturbances, their aetiology, diagnosis and treatment with an emphases in referral and consultation. 

The student's personal growth and well-being is considered at all levels.

LRCCS is also unique in that there is no LRCCS 'campus' as such.  Students do the majority of their studies at home.  LRCCS practical training is conducted in various centres around the New England and NW of NSW.   LRCCS tutors are available to students by phone, fax and email.  The Principal and most of the Administration staff are in rooms provided by the Anglican Counselling Service in Tamworth.  The main library is in Tamworth with small holdings in Armidale, Moree and Inverell.  Lecture note production and distribution is carried out from Inverell.   As well as no campus, there are no fixed semesters allowing students to fit their studies around their lives.

 

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