Useful Information

HPC Health Professions Council
www.hcpc-uk.org

This is a statutory register for Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists and other health related professions. A fully registered Psychologist will be found under the title of ‘Practitioner Psychologist’.

BPS British Psychological Society
www.bps.org.uk

Is the representative body for psychology and psychologists in the UK. Chartered Psychologists will have the letters CPsychol after their name. Being a member of the society does not mean a person is a chartered psychologist qualified in talking therapy.

BACP British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
www.bacp.co.uk

Is a voluntary register of psychotherapists and counsellors.

BPC British Psychoanalytic Council – www.bpc.org.uk

Is a professional association and voluntary regulator of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy profession, publishing a Register of practitioners who are required to follow their ethical code and meet the BPC fitness to practise standards. The register includes child psychotherapists.

UKCP United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
www.ukcp.org.uk

The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is the UK’s leading professional body for the education, training and accreditation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. They also hold a specialist register for psychotherapists qualified to work with children and young people.

BABCP British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychoherapies
www.babcp.com

The BABCP is the lead organization for CBT in the UK and Ireland. Their online register provides the details of all officially accredited CBT Therapists. Here you can find details of all officially accredited CBT Therapists.

EMDR Association UK and Ireland
www.emdrassociation.org.uk

This is the professional Association of EMDR clinicians and researchers seeking the highest standards for the clinical practice of EMDR in the United Kingdom and Ireland.