While most people accept the potential benefits of keeping a journal or diary, the objective of the Journal Therapy Diploma Course is to offer you something much more substantial than a guide to diary writing.

Through studying the Journal Therapy Diploma Course you’ll gain the tools, knowledge and the confidence to start your own personal course of journal therapy or, if you’re a coach or counsellor, to bring it into your professional practice. 

What Will You Learn?

The course aims to prove to you the cathartic experience of true journal therapy and give you the tools to develop your own therapeutic journaling habit. It also aims to direct coaches and counsellors who are keen to use journal therapy as part of their own practice towards the techniques and structures that will prove most effective.

The Journal Therapy Diploma Course kicks off by discussing therapeutic journaling as a specific tool for professional coaches and counsellors to use with clients, and what personal qualities make for an effective journal therapist.

This leads onto a general overview of journal therapy, with a definition of the process and an examination into the meaning behind ‘expressive writing’ and how journaling in this way works to support emotional wellbeing.

The Journal Therapy Diploma Course introduces you to the structures and support methods that are used in journal therapy and the tools and environment needed for effective, therapeutic journaling. You’ll also be provided with some powerful journaling prompts to get you started, before being exposed to some of the most popular and effective techniques used in therapeutic journaling. These include list making, writing letters, capturing moments, biographical statements, dialogue and sprints.

You’ll explore the scientific links between journaling and healing and how to effectively use journaling in your own healing or as an aid when working with clients. You’ll learn the specifics of using journaling in grief therapy, trauma recovery, and in the management of stress, anxiety and depression. You’ll also look at what dreams are and how they can be used in therapeutic journaling - learning how to start and use a dream journal.

Journaling can enhance your creativity, prompting you to create new ways of expressing and discovering yourself. The Journal Therapy Diploma Course explains the differences and similarities between creative and therapeutic journaling and the many benefits of creative journaling and the different forms it takes. The course also looks at how journaling can be used as a tool for career and life coaches – highlighting ways to use therapeutic journaling for career advancement and exploring new career options.

Journaling can benefit everyone and anyone. The Journal Therapy Diploma Course examines the different types of journaling that can be useful depending on your needs and even the kind of person you are. You’ll also be provided with 30 journaling prompts that can be used each day across the course of a month to help you in developing your own powerful journaling habit.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Understand the therapeutic power of journaling
• Have numerous journaling prompts and exercises to use
• Be aware of the different journaling techniques
• Understand the psychological, emotional and physical benefits of journal therapy
• Know how journaling can be used to manage stress, anxiety and depression
• Have the confidence and tools to use a dream journal to interpret dreams
• Understand the relationship between creativity and journaling
• Be able to journal your way to a new job or career

SYLLABUS

Module 1: Becoming a Journal Therapist

Introduction

Part 1: Journal Therapy as a Treatment Method

Part 2: Journaling as a Coach or Therapist and Journaling as a Group

Module 1 Assessment

Module 2: What is Journal Therapy?

Part 1: Defining Journal Therapy

Part 2: The Science of Journal Therapy and the Physical Benefits of Expressive Writing

Part 3: Journaling Vs. Keeping a Diary and Further Proven Benefits of Journal Therapy

Module 2 Assessment

Module 3: Structures and Support

Part 1: Introducing Journal Therapy to Clients

Part 2: Tools of Journal Therapy

Part 3: How to Begin

Module 3 Assessment

Module 4: Journaling Exercises

Part 1: Establishing Guidelines

Part 2: Different Techniques or Exercises

Part 3: Feedback and James Pennebaker’s Journaling Exercise

Module 4 Assessment

Module 5: Writing to Heal

Part 1: Scientific Links Between Journaling and Healing

Part 2: The Journal Therapy Acronym

Part 3: Journaling as a Tool for Grief Therapy

Part 4: Journaling to Overcome Trauma

Part 5: Healing Journaling Formats

Module 5 Assessment

Module 6: Journaling to Manage Stress, Anxiety and Depression

Part 1: What is Stress, Anxiety and Depression? Journaling for Good Mental Health

Part 2: How Journaling Helps

Module 6 Assessment

Module 7: Exploring Dreams

Part 1: The Power of Dreams and the Benefits of Journaling About Your Dreams

Part 2: Starting a Dream Journal

Part 3: You are the Expert on Your Own Dreams

Module 7 Assessment

Module 8: Journaling and Creativity

Part 1: Creative Journaling Vs. Therapeutic Journaling: Differences and Similarities

Part 2: Reasons to Keep a Creative Journal

Part 3: Different Ways to Journal Creatively

Module 8 Assessment

Module 9: Journaling for a Better Career

Part 1: Journaling as a Tool for Career and Life Coaches

Part 2: Journaling for Career Advancement

Part 3: Journaling to Find a New Job or Career Path

Module 9 Assessment

Module 10: Journaling for the Self

Part 1: Why You Should Keep Your Own Journal

Part 2: Personal Benefits of Therapeutic Journaling

Part 3: Ground Rules for Personal Journaling and 30 Daily Journaling Prompts

Conclusion

Module 10 Assessment

ACCREDITATIONS

The Journal Therapy Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete, working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.

This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

This course is registered with the CMA (Complementary Medical Association), which is internationally recognised as the elite force in professional, ethical complementary medicine by professional practitioners, doctors and, increasingly, by the general public. Upon completion of the course you can gain membership to the CMA, which in addition to supplying a professional accreditation, offers a number of other benefits.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certified Diploma certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

Upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from ABC Awards and a Learner Unit Summary, which lists the details of all the units the learner has completed as part of the course. (This certificate is optional and costs an additional £15).

ABC Awards is a leading national Awarding Organisation, regulated by Ofqual, and the Welsh Government. It has a long-established reputation for developing and awarding high-quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries.

This course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme.

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