MSc Gestalt Psychotherapy
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This UKCP-accredited MSc offers a rigorous and experiential training in Gestalt Psychotherapy, emphasising awareness, creativity, and relational contact. The programme develops practitioners who can work responsively and authentically with clients, drawing on the immediacy of experience and the co-created nature of the therapeutic relationship.
Students learn to work with Gestalt’s distinctive focus on the here-and-now, exploring how patterns of experience, emotion, and behaviour emerge within the therapeutic encounter. The course supports the development of a lively, embodied, and reflective clinical practice that integrates theory, creativity, and personal process.
Course philosophy
Gestalt Psychotherapy is grounded in the belief that awareness of present experience is transformative. This course focuses on the relational and experiential aspects of therapy, encouraging students to explore how meaning and change arise through contact between therapist and client. The training fosters curiosity, openness, and creative experimentation as key aspects of Gestalt practice.
Teaching and learning
Teaching takes place in weekend blocks and combines experiential group work, theoretical study, and skills training. Students engage in dialogue, movement, and creative exploration, integrating intellectual understanding with embodied awareness. Clinical supervision and reflective practice are woven throughout the learning process.
Assessment
Assessment is through multimedia portfolios, written assignments, skills observations, professional conversations, presentations, case studies, clinical supervision reports, and a final research project, allowing students to demonstrate integration of personal, theoretical, and clinical learning.
Clinical placement
Students are required to undertake supervised clinical placements throughout their training. These placements provide an essential context for integrating Gestalt principles into practice, supported by reflective journals and supervision.
Career pathways
Graduates are eligible to register with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and may practise professionally as Gestalt Psychotherapists in private practice, health, education, or community settings.
Programme delivery
This part-time programme is studied over three years and delivered through weekend intensives in a blended format, combining in-person and online learning. The intake begins in September each year.
Start Your Application
For most students, the fastest route into a clinical MSc is to complete Metanoia’s Integrative Humanistic Psychotherapy Studies (UKCP Preparatory Year). Taking this route still enables you to finish the full MSc within four years.
Direct entry to an MSc is only available to applicants who have completed the UKCP Preparatory Year or an equivalent qualification. An equivalent qualification usually means training at Level 6 or above, which included:
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A formal readiness-to-practise assessment
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Documented engagement in personal therapy as part of the same training programme
If you're unsure whether to apply for the UKCP Preparatory Year or directly to an MSc, please attend one of our open events or contact a member of our team.
Contact
Head of Programme: laurence.hegan@metanoia.ac.uk
Academic Coordinator: Gestaltadmin@metanoia.ac.uk
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Course Summary:
- Field of Study: Gestalt
- Duration: 3 years part time
- Start Dates: September 2026
- Teaching Institution: Metanoia Institute
- Awarding Institution: Middlesex University
- Accrediting Professional Body: UKCP
- Entry Requirements:
- Applicants are normally expected to have completed Integrative Humanistic Psychotherapy Studies (UKCP preparatory year) or an equivalent qualification.
- For students whose first language is not English, an IELTS score of 7.0 (with a minimum of 6.5 in each component) is required unless you have a prior higher education qualification taught in English. We also offer a supportive process to establish equivalencies in qualifications or experience (APL/APEL). If you do not easily meet our Level 6 Degree requirements, please contact us to discuss options.
- Location: Blended - in-Person at Metanoia Institute, and online
Fees
Initial Fees
- Optional Introductory Workshop (see our workshops calendar for availability and fees)
- Completion of the Integrative Humanistic Psychotherapy Studies (UKCP preparatory year) if required: £4,950
Annual MSc Course Fees for 2026/27
- Year 1: £7,750
- Year 2: £7,750
- Year 3: £7,750
Validated by Middlesex University and Accredited by UKCP (pending approval)
This programme is validated and quality assured by Middlesex University (pending approval) and you will receive a Middlesex award on successful completion. This course is also accredited by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) (pending approval).
