Comments on: £170m plan to train more therapists http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/blog/2008/02/27/170m-plan-to-train-more-therapists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=170m-plan-to-train-more-therapists Find a counsellor or psychotherapist near you Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:36:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Glenys Arthur http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/blog/2008/02/27/170m-plan-to-train-more-therapists/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Glenys Arthur Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:07:37 +0000 http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/blog/2008/02/27/170m-plan-to-train-more-therapists/#comment-50 How typically paradoxical! At a time when MORE talk therapies are needed, the government are about to up the training requirements! From 2010 ALL counsellors will have to register with HPC in order to practise. This registration will require a minimum qualification of Level 5 equivalent ~ ie not the Diploma now seen as practitioner level. What happened to the initiative that ALL GP surgeries should have counsellors attached? When was that stepped down to "access to counselling services"? How typically paradoxical! At a time when MORE talk therapies are needed, the government are about to up the training requirements! From 2010 ALL counsellors will have to register with HPC in order to practise.

This registration will require a minimum qualification of Level 5 equivalent ~ ie not the Diploma now seen as practitioner level.

What happened to the initiative that ALL GP surgeries should have counsellors attached? When was that stepped down to “access to counselling services”?

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