The Counselling for Intimacy in Relationships Certificate is designed to allow students to gain familiarity 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 relationship. Students will gain an understanding of how Psychopathology & Sexual Identity may impact intimacy in relationship. The course will help familiarize students with listening and assertiveness skills, as well as introduce different approaches to conflict resolution. Students will learn specific communication skills training essential to the adoption of healthy relationship patterns and gain an understanding of how to recognize and replace dysfunctional and distancing behaviours with healthy behavioural patterns. The program exposes students to a wide range of contemporary models of counselling applicable to a variety of populations and cultural groups.