July 2023

Question: What quality characterizes registrants in health profession colleges? Professional competency. That is what registered status means.Across Canada, regulated health professionals from nurses and midwives to acupuncturists and dietitians — all are required to meet registration requirements for which competency is the underlying metric. Many health professions require applicants to actively demonstrate their proficiency in […]

In the early 2000s, a group of counselling therapists from different professional associations came alongside BC government officials and it was decided that if the profession was going to be regulated in a single title was required. After much deliberation and research the term counseling therapist was born and has since been used and adopted

Let’s start with the name: Federation of Associations for Counselling Therapists in British Columbia.   We are twelve associations who all believe in the same principles, namely that: The question again: What does FACTBC stand for?  The success of any organization like FACTBC is rooted in the people who volunteer their time to take on