Qualify to support Mental Health and Addiction

Acquire the necessary qualifications to equip yourself with the skills and empathy essential for assisting individuals dealing with mental health challenges and addiction.

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Empower with Mental Health Courses

We offer a comprehensive range of online mental health courses designed to accommodate your flexibility. These courses empower you with the essential skills and knowledge required to establish a rewarding career in the stable and growing field of mental health. By enrolling, you'll develop a deep understanding of mental health issues and gain practical experience through work placements.

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CHC51015 Diploma of Counselling 

Turn your passion into a dream career – Heidi’s Story

Meet Heidi, a CHC51015 Diploma of Counselling graduate who turned her passion into a dream career!

With flexible study and support from Open Colleges, she overcame challenges and is now thriving as a counsellor and behaviour specialist.

What’s stopping you? Watch Heidi’s story and start creating your own possibilities today!

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Unlocking Opportunities: Explore Our Mental Health Courses

At Open Colleges, we provide a range of flexible mental health courses, which are run online. They will help you develop the necessary skills and knowledge you need to launch your career in this stable and growing industry. You will gain a good understanding of mental health issues and also get to put everything into practice with work placements.

With these tools, you’ll be able to support people affected by mental illness and help them on the road towards recovery.

Counsellors provide valuable assistance to those in emotional need when they have issues that they need to learn to overcome in their everyday lives.

By specialising in counselling, you will acquire a very particular set of skills. You will learn how to communicate effectively, allowing you to establish and maintain relationships, resolve issues and find direction for clients through unbiased guidance and support. Learning the main counselling methodologies, you will be able to apply them in real-life scenarios and be equipped with all the necessary skills to get a very rewarding job as a Case Worker, a Counsellor or an Intake Counsellor.

If you’re interested in helping people living with mental health issues, study Mental Health with Open Colleges.

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  • Study anywhere,
    on any device

  • No exams