Clinical Counsellors Association

The Clinical Counsellors Association was formed on the 18th August 2000 and has 30/40 members. The Association was formed out of a desire for the practicing Certified Clinical Counsellors of the Australian Counselling Association to network together to address their own unique concerns and to form an alliance with PACFA through establishing and maintaining Member Association status with that body, while still maintaining their wider links with the ACA. This makes the CCA unique in Australia, it being the only association linked to both of these major representative bodies and therefore being able to be involved in decision making processes that effect the Counselling profession as a whole.

To this end membership of the CCA is available only to those who hold the highest level of ACA membership (currently Certified Clinical Practicing) and the highest level of PACFA association (currently Registry level). Our members, mindful of our strong historical ties abide by the same ethical codes of practice and discipline procedures as ACA. Other requirements for membership are on-going profession development (40 pts per annum minimum) and 15hrs of regular professional supervision relating to client contact of the previous 12mths. Membership is on a per annum basis and runs on the financial year with pro-rata rates available (minimum of 6mths payment).

In their individual practices our members deal with all of the wide range of issues that a general practitioner of counselling is likely to meet. Some of our members, however, choose to specialise in areas such as relationship, adolescent, bereavement and drug counselling as well as many others. Many modalities of Counselling and psychotherapy are also represented within our ranks.

The CCA puts out four newsletters per annum, as well as regular e-mail contact (where possible) and members, through their association with both the ACA and PACFA, also receive all the benefits of belonging to those Associations (such as reduced fees for conferences, access to insurance policy special deals, special book rates with some publishers, wide opportunities to network and present at conferences and the opportunity to submit for possible publication to the prestigious international online journal “Counselling, Psychotherapy and Health” and also ACA’s own online journal “Counselling Australia”).

PACFA Section General Counselling/ Psychotherapy