Counselling

[sooz07]

Can you take part in a training course in counselling if you yourself are getting counselling at the same time? Does that work? It that allowed? Thanks.

[buildersmate]

Counselling skills are generic and quite a valuable skillset to have - it's about assisting an individual to help themselves through a set of questioning and reflecting back techniques.
Any decent counselling skills will involve the trainee counsellors practicing either on fellow trainee counsellors (or more likely) on external volunteers with an issue they would like some support with.
Armed with that info, I am sure you will see that it can work.
I can recommend this organisation which nowadays seems to promote itself towards career counselling, rather than any other type of counselling. But the skills are a cousellor are generic, as mentioned above.
http://www.cepec.co.uk

[saxy_jag]

There nothing to stop you, ethically. However, counselling courses involve a lot of quite serious role play, covering some sensitive issues. If you feel you can cope with these, emotionally, then fine. If you have any worries at all, it may be worth a quiet word with the course tutor beforehand.

When I did my counselling course, we were told that we could sit out any individual exercise if we didn't feel up to dealing with it.

[sooz07]

Thanks for your advice. I wasn't sure about it, I thought it might be a weird thing to be getting counselling and attending a counselling class a the same time. I thought that how could I help doing this course and maybe taking it further if I needed it or needing counselling myself.