United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
Abbreviation | UKCP |
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Formation | 1993 |
Type | Professional body |
Headquarters | America Square, London, EC3 United Kingdom |
Key people | Jon Levett (CEO) |
Website | www.psychotherapy.org.uk |
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a professional association of psychotherapy organisations and practitioners in the United Kingdom.
History
The UKCP exists to "promote and maintain the profession of psychotherapy and the highest standards in the practice of psychotherapy throughout the United Kingdom, for the benefit of the public."[1][2][3] Only psychotherapists or psycho-therapeutic counselors who meet UKCP's training requirements and abide by its ethical guidelines are included in its online "Register of Psychotherapists".
The UKCP was initially founded in the 1980s as the United Kingdom Standing Conference for Psychotherapy following the Foster Report (1971) and the Sieghart Report (1978), which recommended regulation of the psychotherapy field.[4] It was formally inaugurated as a council in 1993.
UKCP also represents the United Kingdom in the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) – a Vienna-based umbrella organisation which sets standards for equivalence of training and practice throughout Europe.[citation needed]
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Chair
UKCP elects its chair among its members.
Term of office | Office holder |
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2023–2024 | Christian Buckland |
2022–2023 | Jo Lucas (acting chair) |
2022–2022 | Syed Azmatullah |
2016–2022 | Martin Pollecoff |
2012–2016 | Janet Weisz |
2009–2012 | Andrew Samuels |
2007–2009 | James Gray Antrican |
2005–2007 | Lisa Wake (now de Rijk) |
2002–2004 | James Pollard |
2001–2002 | Alan Thomson |
1998–2001 | Ann Casement |
1995–1998 | Digby Tantam |
1993–1995 | Emmy van Deurzen |
1989–1993 | Michael R. Pokorny (Chair of the UK Standing Conference for Psychotherapy) |
See also
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
- British Psychoanalytic Council
General:
References
- ^ UKCP (15 March 2009), Press release: "UK Council for Psychotherapy appoints new Chief Executive" Retrieved 7 July 2012
- ^ "United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy".
- ^ UK Council for Psychotherapy (2012). "UKCP's charitable objectives". UK Council for Psychotherapy. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ UK Council for Psychotherapy (2012). "The regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counselors". UK Council for Psychotherapy. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
External links
- UKCP official website
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