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UK Counsellors

The discussion has continued to grow into working together to campaign and bring an end to unpaid work within our profession. Thanks for reading :-)

** The UK’s largest counsellors’ campaign group **

UK Counsellors, also know as Counsellors Together UK (CTUK) started in July 2017 as a Facebook group discussing the prevalence of qualified counsellors being expected to work for free. Today, the group comprises over 7,500 members and is growing every day. We’ve now evolved into a campaigning group with several goals:

* To challenge the culture

and prevalence of the counselling profession being expected to work without being paid.
* To see an end to the routine use of qualified counsellors volunteering to deliver counselling services in organisations and agencies across the country.
* To ensure counsellors are valued and seen worthy of fair remuneration for their work.
* To end the financial hardship and emotional duress suffered by many counsellors who feel they have no choice but to continue to volunteer or work for free, once qualified.
* To campaign and advocate for counselling as a route to emotional and mental well-being in children, young people and adults.
* To publicise the challenges that counsellors face, in order to raise awareness; and influence social, political and economic change; working with and on behalf of our 7,500+ members. The actions we intend to take in order to deliver our goals include:

– Conducting research

– Lobbying membership bodies

– Lobbying local and national governmental departments

– Raising public awareness

– Collaborating with other counsellors and counselling organisations. Visit our website to keep up to date with all of our News - www.ukcounsellors.co.uk

If you are a UK counsellor or therapist you can join in a more confidential discussion over on our Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/counsellorstogetheruk

Please email us [email protected] if you have any questions.

01/06/2022

Dear counselling organisations,

This is your daily reminder to pay your therapists!

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“Having done 160 hours
of volunteer work during
training, I now need to
earn some money.”

Taken from survey: Evaluating the Financial Landscape of the Counselling & Psychotherapy Sector, Dr Elizabeth Cotton. (1265 respondents)
Commissioned by Counsellors Together UK (CTUK) 2021.

29/05/2022

Dear counselling organisations,

This is your daily reminder to pay your therapists!

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Trauma informed care starts with therapists who are paid enough to take the respite they need.

28/05/2022

Dear counselling organisations,

This is your daily reminder to pay your therapists!

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“I literally went hungry
to pay course fees,
supervision, etc.“

Taken from survey: Evaluating the Financial Landscape of the Counselling & Psychotherapy Sector, Dr Elizabeth Cotton. (1265 respondents)
Commissioned by Counsellors Together UK (CTUK) 2021.

27/05/2022

Dear counselling organisations,

This is your daily reminder to pay your therapists!

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“I managed training costs from a small inheritance in my 50s. I ended up using most of my savings, am semi-retired, but will have to work into my 70s to re-build savings.”

Taken from survey: Evaluating the Financial Landscape of the Counselling & Psychotherapy Sector, Dr Elizabeth Cotton. (1265 respondents)
Commissioned by Counsellors Together UK (CTUK) 2021.

26/05/2022

** 2022 National Counselling Awards **

Award nominations are still coming in…. THANK YOU to all who have entered 😊

Have you entered yourself, colleague or organisation yet? It’s certainly worth it!

All entires must be received by midnight on Sunday 5th June 2022. It’s easy to enter online via Google Docs. Full details are in the post below 👇🏼

Good luck ❤️

** 2022 National Counselling Awards - Nominations now OPEN **

Hello all! We are now in our 3rd year of hosting our National Counselling Awards and it is definitely one of our favourite times of the year. As always, we are really excited to hear from you and read all about the work of counsellors and counselling services across the UK. We encourage nominations from individuals and organisations, and those who wish to self-nominate too.

Our main aim as an organisation is to end the culture of exploitation within our field. So, we remain keen to reward good practice in organisations that are using volunteers, and have a selection of awards aimed at recognising excellence within the voluntary sector. In 2021, David Cooper won our most inspirational volunteer counsellor award for his work in the probation service. In his nomination he was commended for his approach to working with offenders and his willingness to pass on his knowledge to students coming into the service. You can read about all of 2021 winners here.

Anyone can nominate a UK based Counsellor/organisation for an award in one of the following categories;

1. Private Practice. This includes best established practice, best start up and most innovative business.

2. Employment. This includes employee of the year, employer of the year and best charity employer.

3. Volunteers. This includes most inspirational volunteer counsellor and most inspirational volunteer organisation .

4. Training. This includes student of the year, mostly inspirational tutor/lecturer, best training institute and best CPD training.

5. Supervision. This includes supervisor of the year and runner up and best supervision training course.

6. Promotion of Counsellors/counselling. This includes most inspirational campaigner/activist, best public figure promoting mental health and researcher of the year.

7. Products and resources. This includes product of the year, recommended read 2022, book of the year (professional read), students choice book 2022.

8. Outstanding contribution to counselling. This includes counsellor of the year and runner up and lifetime achievement award.

9. Counsellors Together UK member of the year 2022 (CTUK admin make this choice).

Entry is quick and easy via a short form on our website. You can make your nomination and find out everything you need to know, including the submission guidelines on our website here: www.nationalcounsellorsday.co.uk/counselling-awards-2022

*Important dates* The awards process opens on Monday 4th April 2022. All entries MUST be received by midnight on Sunday 5th June 2022. Finalists will be announced on Monday 13th June 2022. Winners will be announced on 22nd June 2022 – National Counsellors’ Day.

We look forward to receiving your nomination soon.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Best wishes

Maria and team :-)

19/05/2022

** National Counselling Awards - there’s still time to make a nomination **

Hello!!! Just to let you know that the Counselling Awards are still open and receiving nominations up until midnight on Sunday 5th June 2022.

Anyone can nominate a UK based Counsellor/organisation for an award in one of the following categories;

* Private Practice. This includes best established practice, best start up and most innovative business.

* Employment. This includes employee of the year, employer of the year and best charity employer.

* Volunteers. This includes most inspirational volunteer counsellor and most inspirational volunteer organisation

* Training. This includes student of the year, mostly inspirational tutor/lecturer, best training institute and best CPD training.

* Supervision. This includes supervisor of the year and runner up and best supervision training course.

* Promotion of Counsellors/counselling. This includes most inspirational campaigner/activist, best public figure promoting mental health and researcher of the year.

* Products and resources. This includes product of the year, recommended read 2022, book of the year (professional read), students choice book 2022.

* Outstanding contribution to counselling. This includes counsellor of the year and runner up and lifetime achievement award.

* Counsellors Together UK member of the year 2022.

It is really easy to nominate yourself or someone you know. It takes just a few minutes and you can do that here: https://www.nationalcounsellorsday.co.uk/counselling-awards-2022/

Via the link above you can also find out more general information about the awards and check out the last two years winners.

We launched these awards in 2020 as a means to celebrate all therapists for the work they do and present examples of good practice so we can highlight excellence in the field. All previous years winners have been more than happy to receive their awards, with several winners reporting that they have helped them to advance their practice.

We wish you all the best of luck 😊

18/05/2022

Dear counselling organisations,

This is your daily reminder to pay your therapists!

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“COVID has hit me hard. I
lost half my income but didn’t
qualify for any of the government support as I haven’t been self-employed long enough.”

Taken from survey: Evaluating the Financial Landscape of the Counselling & Psychotherapy Sector, Dr Elizabeth Cotton. (1265 respondents)
Commissioned by Counsellors Together UK (CTUK) 2021.

17/05/2022

Dear counselling organisations,

This is your daily reminder to pay your therapists!

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Person-centred counselling is also an evidence based practice but often delivered by unpaid counsellors in charities or only available to people who can pay to have something other than CBT.

13/05/2022

Dear everyone,

It is essential that:

* Free and accessible counselling is available to all.

* That people have a say in the type of counselling they receive.

* That all counsellors are adequately paid.

12/05/2022

Dear counselling organisations,

This is your daily reminder to pay your therapists!

We hear from many therapists saying this exact same thing 👇🏼

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“I fall into the ‘just-about-managing’ category. I don’t have debts and
have never used food banks (yet)
but I am only just getting by and I
have nothing left for savings.”

Taken from survey: Evaluating the Financial Landscape of the Counselling & Psychotherapy Sector, Dr Elizabeth Cotton. (1265 respondents)
Commissioned by Counsellors Together UK (CTUK) 2021.

11/05/2022

4 out of 10 presenters at this years National Counsellors’ Day Conference will be addressing SCoPEd, with NCS saying they are open to answering questions about it, and I suspect some of the other presenters will touch on it too! It is the a topic which is on almost everyone’s agenda and I can’t wait to hear what everyone has to say about it! This years conference is one NOT to miss - Saturday 18th June 2022!

Here’s the line up 💫

* Dr Elizabeth Cotton - PRESENTATION: Cheer up, love. This session will map out the policy landscape behind the UK's IAPT programme and the well-being industry underpinned by the political alliance between behavioural psychology and behavioral economics.

* Clare Slaney - PRESENTATION: Regulation and the search for certainty.

* The Association of Neurodivergent Therapists - PRESENTATION: Standing up for Neurodivergent Therapists, Trainees and Clients in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

* Dr Dwight Turner - PRESENTATION: Exploring the
Intersectional Pitfalls of SCoPEd.

* Dr Emma Radway-Bright - PRESENTATION: An alternative universe - An inclusive proposed Competency Framework for the Practice of Counselling & Psychotherapy.

* Paul Atkinson - PRESENTATION; What is the UK's 'mental health crisis' trying to say to us?

* Chloe Foster - PRESENTATION: Why Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity matters in the Counselling Room.

* Maria Albertsen PRESENTATION: What the SCoPEd is going on?

* The National Counselling Society - PRESENTATION: Children and Young People - Protecting the Therapeutic Relationship. (Also taking questions on SCoPEd)

* The Psychotherapy and Counselling Union - PRESENTATION: Could local networks be a game
changer to resist SCoPEd, industrialisation,
medicalisation and regulation of the therapeutic
landscape?

Book your tickets on a donation basis here:

The Therapeutic Future: Exploring the impact of SCoPEd, industrialisation, medicalisation, and regulation on the therapeutic landscape.

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