Why I would counsel in opposition to statutory law of psychotherapists | Letter – Guardian

As a feeble chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, who led our war in opposition to statutory law within the main decade of this century, I am afraid to be taught of what feels admire a brand current and unreflective bustle towards statutory law of counsellors and psychotherapists, suffused with all kinds of sectional pursuits and hidden agendas (Letters, 25 October). To proceed will divide a occupation that has simplest pretty lately found a fragile solidarity via the government-backed Genuine Requirements Authority, in which the immense majority of psychotherapists and counsellors take a seat of their specialist registers.

Two things are wanted: when somebody is struck off for serious offences, the linked registration physique must device the dedication diagnosed a ways and wide. They accept as true with to pursue those scofflaws who simply commence one other web convey online. And there desires to be a national marketing campaign to alert the public: “Psychotherapy would per chance additionally simply be of assist to you. Inquire any probably psychotherapist with whom they are registered. If they’re now now not in any approach connected to the Genuine Requirements Authority, we recommend you gape in other locations.”
Prof Andrew Samuels
London