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Professional Practice:
Trauma-Responsive Therapy

Distance Study NZ & International

Targeted at counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, and other professionals in therapeutic fields, this major focuses on evidence-based, ethical trauma therapy practices. You’ll learn to work effectively with trauma survivors, applying culturally sensitive and research-informed interventions. The programme provides you with advanced skills to support healing and growth for individuals and communities affected by trauma.

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Study Pathway

The Postgraduate Certificate in Responding to Trauma is a prerequisite to entry into the Postgraduate Diploma which is a prerequisite for entry into the Masters programme.

Programme Highlights

  • Culturally attuned learning: The curriculum integrates Mātauranga Māori principles and honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
  • Faith-informed education: Draw on your faith to inform compassionate, ethical professional practice.
  • Flexible learning options: Access the programme from anywhere in New Zealand or abroad through online and in-person wānanga.
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Unique approach

At BTI we recognise that we are created to engage with the spiritual dimension as well as with the social and physical aspects of people’s lives in the places where we live and work. It is this unique approach to the PG Diploma and Master’s degree, together with an integration of theoretical, personal, and professional learning spaces, that will give you the edge over other professionals. 

Integrate professional with personal

A key component of our professional PG diploma and Master’s degree programmes is to heighten awareness of your own gifts, talents, strengths, weaknesses and ways of thinking that influence your ‘ways of being’. By engaging in this way, students enter into a practical synthesis between existing literature, personal experience, the Biblical narrative and your own professional context, allowing each to inform the other. These cycles of critical reflection provide opportunities for questioning societal, cultural, and institutional norms and potentially challenging some of the prevailing assumptions and values that inform them. 

Advance your career

Completing a reputable postgraduate programme in professional practice can help to advance your career, moving you up the career ladder, or into a connected field.

All professional backgrounds

We have students on this programme from all professional backgrounds who are seeking to transition to a deeper level of understanding of the intersection between their personal gifts and calling and their professional context.

Entry Requirements

  • To support your application, the following is required:

    • An interview with the programme leader.
    • An NZQA-approved Level 7 bachelor’s degree (or equivalent).
    • Applicants for the Trauma majors will begin with the PG Cerificate in Responding to Trauma, then complete one of the PGDipPP trauma majors before moving into the Master’s.
    • Entry in Masters of Professional Practice
    • Evidence of provisional or full membership of an appropriate professional body with supervised practice experience in responding to trauma.
    • Membership of a relevant professional body
    • If your degree was completed with an overseas organisation, an International Qualifications Assessment is required.
    • Please note: International applicants are required to meet the minimum English language requirements: the equivalent in IELTS of an Academic Score of 6.5, with no band score lower than 6.
    • A letter of support from a supervisor/manager indicating that you are employed or volunteering in an existing vocational situation in the fields of mental health, counselling, psychology or other relevant profession which will provide a context for study and application of learning.

Graduate profile and careers

Graduates from a postgraduate programme of study such as the Leadership major of the Master of Professional Practice will find it advances their career prospects, either within a current professional field, or into an allied field.

The leadership component of the programme positions students well within the market place to take the next step on the career ladder. Graduates will have a rounded knowledge of leadership as applied to their particular professional context, bringing middle and senior management positions within accessible reach. 

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“l have experienced MPPL not just as a master’s degree or new learning of information, but as a journey into deep transformation – spiritual, physical, emotional, and professional – and the journey continues.” 

– Philippa Becker, Teacher and MPPL student. 

“l initially went into the master’s programme unsure of whether I could complete it, but through the gentle nurturing and support which I received from the teachers, I was able to complete my degree.

– John Wilson, Teacher and MPPL Graduate

“I knew that God had called me to complete the MPPL at this time in my life and knowing that gave me the drive and passion to persevere.”


– John Wilson, Teacher and MPPL Graduate