Welcome to NSPC

NSPC is the foremost higher education college applying existential ideas to its courses and its approach to student support.  Study with us if you share our vision for the future: greater opportunity for each of us to make the choices we value and carry them through.

Emmy van Deurzen

A word from our principal

Course Accreditation

Teaching, Research, and Administrative Opportunities at the NSPC

Recent Research at the NSPC

We recommend courses at the Existential Academy

The foundation course provided by the Existential Academy is the perfect starter course for our doctorates, and the short courses provided by the EA are an excellent CPD resources for our graduates and other psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals.

Intersecting around the edges - loving and loosening my labels

19th Nov '21

Stella Duffy presents on intersectionality and identity.

Front-line chaplains: emergency services for the soul

12th Nov '21

NSPC Pastoral Care student, Pippa Swan, speaks to The Observer about her experiences as a front-line chaplain in HM Prison Maghaberry, Co Antrim.

Dr Jackie Sewell on Windrush, diverse Black experiences and identities

29th Oct '21

Dr Jackie Sewell discusses Windrush, diverse Black experiences and identities.