Continuing professional development (CPD)

CPD is a requirement for UKCP reaccreditation and we want to help you find different ways to complete your 

Our CPD policy requires a minimum of 250 hours of CPD over each five-year reaccreditation period. This normally includes at least 20 hours in every year of that period. Your organisational member or college may set a higher requirement, so please check their policy.

CPD can take many forms, these could include in-person workshops and sessions, webinars, online courses and training, online networking and peer meetings, committee work and extensive reading. We’re flexible about how you complete your CPD as long as they meet your requirments for your membership. 

Please contact your organisational member or college to confirm their requirements and find out what they recommend. They can also tell you about any CPD or support they offer that is specific to your modality. You’ll find college CPD policies on your college’s page and on your organisational member’s page.

To get you started, we’ve listed some useful places to find resources that could help you build your CPD hours.

UKCP webinars

Our webinar recordings cover a range of topics, including the client voice in psychotherapeutic research and looking after yourself when you are looking after others. Recordings are available to watch online as an exclusive membership benefit. To find out how to access them, email events@ukcp.org.uk for more information on how to access videos. You can view our upcoming and past events page on our website.

UKCP organisational members’ events pages

Many of our organisational members list events on their websites that you may find useful.

Useful links

Many organisations offer CPD, both online and in person. Before you sign up, please check with your organisational member or college that the training will count towards your CPD hours.

• Confer
• Freud Museum
• The Melanie Klein Archive
• Onlinevents
• PESI UK
• Tavistock

Reaccreditation and annual registrant sample audit

We expect organisational members to be supportive, flexible and pragmatic when they carry out annual CPD checks and reviewing reaccreditation submissions. We take the same approach with our annual registrant sample audit. If you’re finding it hard to meet your CPD hours, please talk to your organisational member or college about your concerns as early as you can.