From January 2025, we are hoping to run a Level 2 CPCAB Certificate in Counselling Skills course at Oxford Counselling Centre. This is the first step on the route to becoming a registered counsellor, but also provides useful skills for anyone in a public-facing or caring role. This includes such professions as social workers, teachers, health and care workers and managers, as well as those looking to become a counsellor.
CPCAB is the only awarding body run by counsellors and are the the leading counselling organisation regulated by Ofqual.
Our tutors are experienced and registered counsellors who have been with Oxford Counselling Centre for several years.
KATARZYNA BOODEN (tutor)
BSc, DiP, MBACP (accredited)
Kat qualified from an integrative counselling course in 2017 and has been with Oxford Counselling Centre since then, working with both individuals and couples. She works with both English and Polish languages and has experience of working with supporting people suffering from depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, experiencing problems in relationships, with children, work, bereavement, trauma, sexual abuse, miscarriage, abortion and suffering from cancer.
GARETH BARTLETT (tutor)
MSc, MBACP (reg).
Gareth completed his training in integrative humanistic counselling in 2018 and has been associated with Oxford Counselling Centre since then. He completed his Level 5 diploma in working with children and young people in 2020 and currently specialises in bereavement, chronic illness and adult ADHD in private practice. He has recently completed an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Practice.
Gareth has previously taught on counselling courses at Aylesbury College and has worked in healthcare for over 25 years.
JOZEF BRIES (tutor)
BSc (hons) MSc MBACP (Accred.) MCPara, MNCS (Snr Accred), MSAFPAC
Jozef trained in an Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy approach and currently holds a Master of Science in Psychotherapy and Counselling. He has worked with adult clients at Oxford Counselling Centre for many years, having previously worked in a healthcare education role.
