APPLICATION FOR ACCREDITATION
PORTFOLIO
The following sheets numbered 1 to 6 are intended to act as section headers for your
portfolio of application for accredited status.
Please send your completed Accreditation Portfolio with your payment of £100 for the
application process to;
The National Council of Psychotherapists. PO Box 541, Keighley, West
Yorkshire. BD21 9DS.
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SECTION 1
Either;
Copies of the latest three Membership Certificates.
Or
Written confirmation in another form that you have been a practising member for the last
three years. (For the years you are making the application)
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SECTION 2.
A COPY OF YOUR CURRENT PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE CERTIFICATE.
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SECTION 3, 4 & 5
3. Practising counselling, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy or coaching.
4. As you are already a member you have already demonstrated that your
training was up to the required standard.
To complete this section you must have been in practice at least three years when you apply
for accreditation. You must demonstrate that
a) Have at least 450 hours of supervised practice accumulated within three to six years
(they do not have to be consecutive years).
b) Have been supervised for at least 1 hour per month throughout the period of practice
submitted.
5. Supervision
You have an on-going contract for counselling/psychotherapy supervision for a minimum of
1 hour per month for each month in which practice is undertaken.
Please provide evidence of client hours and
supervision.
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6. Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
We accept the Professional Associations Research Network definition of CPD as,
'Any process or activity that provides added value to the capability of the professional
through the increase in knowledge, skills and personal qualities necessary for the
appropriate execution of professional and technical duties, often termed competence’.
a) CPD must be at least 30 hours per year and can be anything from reading a book
about your profession to taking a full diploma in another modality.
b) Describe a CPD activity, relevant to your area of practice that you have undertaken
in the 12 months before applying for accreditation. Provide a summary of this CPD
activity (minimum 400, maximum 600 words) and in this demonstrate how the
activity has influenced your practice.
Please provide evidence of your CPD activity
for the three years you are applying to your
accreditation.
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Reflective Practice Criteria 6-8
Items 7, 8 & 9 are covered by one piece of written work of no more than 1,500
words.
7. Self-awareness
Describe an experience or an activity which has contributed to your own self-awareness.
This should include reasons for choosing the experience or activity and show how this selfawareness is useful in your practice.
8. Knowledge and understanding
Describe a rationale for your client work with reference to the modalities that inform your
practice. Reflect within this how you place your self-awareness within your way of working
and comment on how issues of difference and equality impact upon the therapeutic
relationship.
9. Practice & Supervision
Demonstrate how your practice is consistent with your described way of working and how
you use your self-awareness in the therapeutic relationship and how supervision enhances
your practice.
Please complete the above information and send the completed file with
payment of £100 to cover the administration.
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Checklist & Feedback on Completing Sections 7, 8 &
9.
Section Criteria
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Describe an experience or an activity which has contributed to
your own self-awareness.
Include reasons for choosing the experience or activity.
Show how this self-awareness is useful in your practice.
Describe a rationale for your client work with reference to the
modalities that inform your practice.
Reflect within this how you place your self-awareness within
your way of working.
How issues of difference and equality impact upon the
therapeutic relationship.
Demonstrate how your practice is consistent with your described
way of working.
How do you use your self-awareness in the therapeutic
relationship?
How does supervision enhance your practice?
1st Assessor Comment
2nd Assessor Comment
Both Assessors, Signed & Dated.
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