Counselling Career

Counselling Career opportunities and graduate outcomes

Jansen Newman Institute graduates gain valuable skills, not just theoretical knowledge. While some students embark on our courses primarily for personal development, greater understanding of human behaviour and relationships or to complement their existing careers outside the psychotherapy and counselling career arenas, many graduates enter private counselling and psychotherapy practice or combine it with work in institutional settings. These often include corporate, public, hospital or health sector organisations. 

Over 45% of Jansen Newman surveyed graduates* report gaining or continuing work in their chosen counselling career or psychotherapy fields, with the remainder reporting advancement or benefits in their existing work settings. Many of our graduates further remark on their personal development and the significant differences in their lives that their study at Jansen Newman has made. The testimonials featured throughout this site reflect some of the outcomes for our students and graduates. 

Further graduate outcomes include: 

Loretta Walford gained her Graduate Diploma of Counselling and decided to return to do the 3rd year of the Bachelor of Counselling and Human Change degree for greater clinical experience. During that time she wrote a group therapy program for Probation and Parole, Burwood. She retains the copyright and is now running that program in a number of Probation and Parole centres, as well as being a Relationship Therapist with psychologist Toby Green in her own private practice on the lower North Shore in Sydney.

Suzanne Nelson was employed as an Intake Counsellor at South Pacific Private Hospital during her 3rd year of her Bachelor of Counselling and Human Change degree. She was promoted to head of the department and has now moved into a Therapist role.

Rolf Ruhl embarked on counselling in his fifties as his third career. He was awarded the Graduate Diploma of Counselling and is now in private practice.

Scott Jordan worked in the IT industry and after completing the Bachelor of Counselling and Human Change, he now divides his time between being a hands-on dad and being in private Counselling practice in North Sydney.

Barbara Jones has taken her Graduate Diploma of Counselling into the corporate arena. She specialises in corporate coaching, and also works with businesses and individuals dealing with issues of retrenchment and organisational change. She is also one of our valued 'real world' teachers at Jansen Newman.

* Statistics derived from Jansen Newman Institute records, 1995 to 2002.