UKCP membership for organisations

We welcome membership applications from organisations. There are two categories of organisational membership:

• organisational membership
• affiliate organisational membership – applications are currently paused. 

Organisational membership

UKCP membership is a mark of quality that recognises your organisation’s high standards of training and professional and ethical practice. Becoming a member can enhance the standing of your training courses and give your team access to a range of resources and professional networks.

There are five types of organisational member. Depending on its type, an organisational member can:

• train only
• train and accredit its own graduates
• train and accredit its own graduates, and accredit practitioners who did not train with UKCP
• accredit only – including accrediting other training programmes and individuals who trained on them or elsewhere
• list only – reaccredit current UKCP registrants.

To become a UKCP member, your organisation must:

• be relevant to psychotherapy or psychotherapeutic counselling and support UKCP’s aims and objectives
• have existed for at least three years before applying
• have an accountable financial and administrative structure compatible with UKCP’s Articles of Association
• not be a sub-unit or branch of any organisation or institution that is separately eligible for membership
• have a code of ethics and practice compatible with UKCP requirements
• be able to accredit high-calibre practitioners to the UKCP register
• be able to carry out the obligations of an organisational member.

The application process for organisational membership

If your organisation would like to become a UKCP member:

• decide which type of organisational member you would like to be
• download the application form and document checklist for that type
• send us your completed form and supporting documents.

Our Membership Committee and the relevant college will then review your application. Find out more about UKCP colleges.

For more information about organisational membership and how to apply, contact our regulation team on 020 7014 9955 or email regulation@ukcp.org.uk.

Application and review forms

You can use these forms to apply for membership or for your organisation’s membership review.

Training and Accrediting

Training only

Accrediting only

Listing only

Affiliate organisational membership

Applications for affiliate organisational membership are currently paused.

As an affiliate organisation, you’ll be listed on our website and can say that you are affiliated to UKCP in your printed and digital publications. You’ll also receive reduced rates for inserts in delegate packs, poster exhibitions at UKCP conferences and events, and advertising in our magazine, New Psychotherapist.

Affiliate membership also helps you keep up to date with news and important issues affecting psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors.

To become an affiliate organisation, you must:

• have an interest in psychotherapy, psychotherapeutic counselling or psychological therapies and wish to support UKCP
• operate in a manner compatible with our Articles of Association
• not be a sub-unit or branch of any organisation or institution which is separately eligible for full organisational membership.

Affiliate organisations cannot vote in UKCP elections or accredit or register individuals with UKCP.

We carry out regular quality reviews of all our organisational members. For affiliate organisations, these reviews only look at whether your organisation remains compatible with UKCP and at the parts of your work that are relevant to ours.

For more information, contact our regulation team on 020 7014 9955 or email regulation@ukcp.org.uk.

UKCP affiliate organisational members

• Claremont project