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Get started as a member today. Before you get started please ensure you:
Evidence required
JP signed qualification
Professional experience
Contract, Employers letter, Hours of work
If self employed
ABN, Types of service delivery, Role statement
Professional supervision
A person at a higher level of CPCA who has supervised you – statement with signature and JP witnessed / statutory declaration
Registry
Dates /hours of client contact JP witnessed
Not applicable
Has graduated from an CPCA Accredited Course of study at minimum Degree Level in Counselling.
Requirements:
Evidence:
Has graduated from an CPCA Accredited Course of study at minimum Degree Level in Counselling.
Requirements:
Evidence:
Has graduated from an CPCA Accredited Course of study at minimum Diploma Level in Counselling.
Requirements:
Evidence:
Description:
Graduated from a Recognised (RTO) qualification at Diploma level in Counselling
Requirements:
Evidence:
Be enrolled and actively studying a Diploma in Counseling or other Diploma with significant links to counselling such as Youth Work, Mental health, Child safety, Community services and Youth Justice
Professional development requirements
Evidence
Any person who supports the aims of the CPCA. Student members who do not gain a Diploma of counselling may remain associate members after completing their course of study.
Professional development requirements
As you can see, despite our request to be engaged in the consultation phase, the CPCA was not consulted. It appears there is a concerted effort to create a peak body and to disenfranchise people who are not members of that body. Further, there is a clear push to make registration compulsory and thus to remove the rights of counsellors who qualify by virtue of diploma and practice.
Important Links:
It is essential, if you wish to retain your freedom to choose and to practise, that you take action:
After reading the Draft National Standards, please look at the questions that were included in the survey at the beginning of the draft and answer them on a word document.
Afterwards please send through to the following email addresses with the subject heading: Draft National Standards for Counsellors.
Please add us to your email CC:
The CPCA will also be responding formally.
Mark Cresswell
President
CPCA