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Call us on 0800 222 733Courses and qualifications
Links to NZQA-approved career development and practice qualifications and other sources of professional development.
Career guidance qualifications
Auckland University of Technology
- Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate in Career Development (Level 7)
- Master of Career Development (Level 9)
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT)
Otago Polytechnic
Professional Associations
The following associations provide access to a range of professional development.
Counselling techniques and approaches
A list of training and professional development courses in approaches related to careers practice.
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT)
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) teaches people to utilise their existing strengths and redirect their focus towards how they want things to be, and what it will take to make it happen.
Interactive drawing therapy (IDT)
Interactive drawing therapy (IDT) uses drawing and writing techniques to complement and extend the more common talking and cognitive processes.
The aim of this therapy is to help integrate right and left-brain functioning, allowing people to access new parts of the unconscious and facilitate personal growth and healing.
Motivational interviewing (MI)
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based, clinical method for helping people change behaviour. It combines the client-centred approach with semi-directive methods to help people reduce ambivalence and strengthen commitment to carry through behaviour changes.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
NLP was was originally developed as a means of understanding how people process information, construct meaning and schemas, and perform skills to achieve results. NLP modelling helps to understand the patterns of one’s own behaviours in order to model the more successful parts of oneself.
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a questionnaire designed to make Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types understandable and useful in everyday life.
Life Coaching
Life coaching is a practice aimed at helping clients determine and achieve personal goals, and recreate their life according to their vision or passion. It centres on breaking down the barriers that prevent change from happening to create the ideal environment for this change to take place.