Relationship Goals for Couples

International Open Academy

Module Exams

Included in course price

More people are turning to counselling, life coaching and therapy for help in all areas of their life. So there are plenty of opportunities for people providing counselling services. As well as having the immense satisfaction of helping people see their way through troubled times, you are able to earn between £30 -£50 an hour by counselling as a private practitioner or enjoy a starting salary of around £26,000 within an existing organisation.

Around 20% of UK couples - 2.87 million people - are close to splitting up, according to a Relate study. Another 20% stay together despite being unhappy and one in 10 occasionally considers getting a divorce or breaking up. That’s a lot of unhappy couples who would benefit from counselling or couples therapy.

Our accredited course is your first step towards gaining an amazing insight into couples psychology and pursuing a career as a counsellor or adding counselling skills to your existing role in therapy or life coaching, for example.

By taking our course, you will be in a position to confidently talk about the psychology of relationships and various therapies at interviews. Plus it will look impressive on your CV. Start our course concerning couples psychology now.

How is the Relationship Goals For Couples course assessed?

By studying Relationship Goals For Couples online with IOA, you do not pay an extra fee for sitting an exam or have to wait for a set date to sit an exam. There is a short exam at the end of each module for you to take, You’ll know your score immediately.

Relationship Goals for Couples Course Syllabus

Module 1: Psychology Of Relationships

• When to seek professional help
• What is a relationship and what is the point of being in one?
• What makes some relationships last and others fail?
• Identifying issues in a relationship
• Goals and outcomes: What do your clients want their relationship to be?

Module 2: Communication

• Compromise
• Empathy
• Reflective listening
• Other healthy communication techniques
• When does communication stop being effective?

Module 3: Working Together

• Building up friendship
• Maintaining fondness for one another
• The love languages
• Forgiveness and trust
• Accepting Influence

Module 4: Conflict Resolution

• Opening a dialogue
• The blame game - and how to avoid it
• Healthy conflict techniques
• Identifying and stopping harmful behaviours

Module 5: The Future

• Building towards a shared meaning
• Creating shared values
• Increasing intimacy
• Helping each other achieve life dreams

Module 6: Sexual Health

• What's 'normal' when it comes to sex?
• Opening a conversation about sex
• Setting limits in a relationship
• Trying new things together

• Everyone who is interested in psychology and helping other people with relationship issues
• Individuals aspiring to get into counselling or life coaching
• Counselling volunteers looking for career progression
• Existing counsellors who wish to expand into relationship therapy
• People who already work with families and want to understand about relationships to help their clients further, such as those working in:
  
  • charities or community organisations
  • family support
  • health and wellness
  • alternative therapies
  • social work
  • nursing, home care or child care
  • psychology-related fields
  • life coaching or mentoring
• People who are interested in relationships or who wish to improve their own relationship

This Relationship Goals For Couples course is open to all, with no formal entry requirements.

• Be inspired to study further to be a counsellor, either by taking a psychology degree or working towards a counselling diploma
• Become a volunteer counsellor
• Help existing clients with their relationships if you already work in wellness, therapy, life coaching or holistic medicine