How to get a listing on the PACFA National Register

If you are a member of one of the PACFA Member Associations, and have the required training, supervision and experience to meet the register criteria, you can apply to be listed on the Register via your member association.  Please contact your Member Association for further information.

Register Eligibility Criteria

There are 3 different  training and supervised experience pathways by which you may become eligible for listing on the PACFA Register:

Undergraduate Equivalent

3 years Training in Psychotherapy or Counselling (3 years - 400 hours min)
+ 750 hours client contact with 75 hours post-training supervision (minimum) over two years (minimum)

OR

Postgraduate Equivalent

Relevant Degree (as defined by the Applicant's Professional Association)
+ Specialist Training in Psychotherapy or Counselling (2 years - 250 hours min)
+ 750 hours client contact with 75 hours post-training supervision (minimum) over two years (minimum)

OR

Recognition of Prior Learning

Recognition of Prior learning. Where an applicant's professional training and formation does not fit the above, but is based on extensive training, practice and supervision over several years, it may be possible to be admitted to the Register based on recognition of this prior learning. The PACFA Training Standards will be the guide in determining training equivalence. Higher hours of client contact and post training supervision may be required. For example where a number of smaller courses make up the applicant’s training, the requirement for supervised clinical experience shall be 1200 hours client contact with 120 hours post-training supervision over at least two years.

All the above criteria are dealt with in detail in the Guidelines attached to the Application Form.

Professional Development - 15 hours per year

The professional development requirement is intended to support the obligation of practitioners to keep up to date with their profession and new development in practice. The hours-requirement of 15 hours per year is minimal and most practitioners will exceed this. The 15 hours therefore refers only to involvement in training courses or workshops, attendance at conferences and seminars and training whilst enrolled in formal courses, which may include distance education.

Professional development guidelines:
 
Guideline for Content:
1. Material should be relevant to ongoing clinical practice.
2. Material should be relevant to core competencies of psychotherapy and counselling practice.
 
Guideline for Presenter/s:
These activities should be presented by:  appropriately qualified members of PACFA MA s or presenters who are eligible for membership or thos who are recognised by the profession as having advanced expertise in the topic being addressed.

Supervision
10 hours of supervision linked to practice in the previous 12 months.

Ongoing full membership with a PACFA member association.
 

Evidence of continuing professional Indemnity Insurance.