Who Are We?

The Jansen Newman Institute

The Jansen Newman Institute of Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy grew out of the Relationship Development Centre which was founded in 1978 by Dr David Jansen. Dr Jansen was co-founder of the California Family Study Center in Los Angeles, now the Phillips Graduate Institute, a large graduate training centre for marriage and family counsellors. In 1981 Dr Jansen was joined by Margaret Newman and together they developed Jansen Newman into the counselling and training centre that it is today, offering training and an extensive range of Counselling and Psychotherapy services at clinics in St Leonards and 8 other locations in Sydney and Wollongong.

The Jansen Newman Institute offers a Bachelor of Counselling and Human Change program and a Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy program.

In addition, the Institute offers a range of Short Courses each year for the continuing education of professionals.

Accreditation

The Bachelor of Counselling and Human Change and the Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy are accredited under the Higher Education Act 1988/2001 No 102 (NSW).

This means that Jansen Newman Institute Bachelor and Graduate Diploma qualifications are equivalent to degree and graduate diploma programs offered by universities.

Jansen Newman Institute Aims

The Jansen Newman Institute aims to attract people who:

• have a desire to achieve professional status as a counsellor and psychotherapist
• have a desire to become effective helpers of others
• wish to broaden and deepen their existing skills in working with people
• want to explore new directions in their lives
• have already embarked on a journey of self-discovery (often via personal therapy)

The Jansen Newman Institute aims to nurture, support and encourage

• interpersonal sensitivity
• creative flexibility
• reflective thinking and writing skills appropriate to university level
• academic achievement
• a solid sense of selfhood
• the ability to learn and grow from life experiences

The Jansen Newman Institute also aims to create excitement and challenge within our training environment by providing a dynamic experiential teaching approach and encouraging and acknowledging multi-cultural and gender diversity within the student body.