Counselling/Psychotherapy students can now combine courses for first-time accreditation, says IACP

As of June, 2015 courses done within a five-year period can be combined to make up a core course by students seeking first-time accreditation with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Here's the announcement from the IACP newsletter:

Please be advised that amendments have been made to the IACP criteria for First Time Accreditation regarding Combining Courses and Personal Therapy In Parallel With The Core Course.

“As of 12 June 2015 courses may be combined to make up a core course. These two courses must be completed within 5 years of each other.

If the IACP believes that the ethos promoted by the course or the course providers or their employees or agents as part of the course or as part of the environment surrounding the course is / are not compatible with the ethos promoted by the IACP, the IACP has a right to refuse accreditation to the applicant who has completed such a course. This is a discretionary right of the IACP.”

“Where the applicant has completed a course or combination of two courses, which meet the IACP Core Course criteria in all respects except for the inclusion of 50 hours of personal therapy, then personal therapy taken in parallel with the course with an accredited IACP therapist (or therapist accredited by an organisation acceptable to IACP), will be accepted.”

For more information please contact the Accreditation Department or visit our website: http://www.iacp.ie/first-time-accreditation